The National Directorate of Employment,NDE, through the Renewed Hope Employment Initiative has flagged off the skills acquisition training in vocational and agricultural skills, transient jobs and activities in the public work sector.
The event which showcased over a thousand participants in attendance, took place on Friday at the Federal secretariat, Awka, Anambra state.
In his opening remark, the Director General of National Directorate of Employment,NDE, H.E Silas A. Agara stated that the current employment initiative is an inclusiveness and a cardinal consideration designed for the programme.
According to him, ” We have ensured that a minimum of 10 persons from each 8,809 electoral wards in Nigeria were recruited to benefit from 30 skill sets across our four core programmes, vocational skill development, small enterprises, rural employment promotion and special public works.
“These programmes are meant for school leavers, school dropouts, women, graduates of tertiary institutions, retirees and persons with special needs among others.”
He noted that successful beneficiaries will be resettled into productive entrepreneurial lives through the provision of tools, equipment and start up capital, while those who were not able to resettle will be linked with credit granting institutions for further support.
The NDE boss equally emphasized that 40,000 out of 93,731 persons enrolled in this programme will be receiving training in ICT and digital skill as a deliberate step by the NDE in order to equip our youths with emerging skills that will enable them become globally competitive.
However, the Anambra State Coordinator, NDE, Mrs. Chika Ufelle said the NDE through her various programmes and activities, is vigorously pushing the frontiers of providing decent and sustainable jobs for the teaming unemployed.
“A total of 93,731 (Ninety three thousand, seven hundred and thirty one) unskilled and unemployed persons will be engaged and trained across Nigeria which is in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with a target of ten persons from each electoral ward across the country”.
Mrs Ufelle noted that the Directorate tackles unemployment problems through Agricultural, Vocational, Entrepreneurship training, and activities in the public work sector and will use over 30 different skills set under this initiative.
She maintained that implementation of these schemes in the past has recorded huge success as regards to set targets and goals.”A good number of the graduated trainees are now self employed as well as become employers of labour and NDE Master Trainers.