Kaduna – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) said on Thursday in Kaduna that it had distributed resettlement tools to 430 graduates of its programmes nationwide.
The NDE Acting Director-General, Mr Olakunle Obanyan, made this known while distributing resettlement tools to 20 beneficiaries.
He said that those empowered were from 17 states under the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme and Commercial Farmers Training Project.
Obanya, who was represented by a director, Mr Umar Ibrahim, said that the directorate would continue to provide employment opportunities for unskilled and unemployed Nigerians.
“After this event, 30 new small-scale micro enterprises would have been injected into Kaduna State.
“The desire of the NDE over the years has always been to empower all the beneficiaries of our skills acquisition programmes.”
He advised unskilled young Nigerians to take advantage of the various NDE programmes in order to become self-employed.
“This will be their own way of supporting the Federal Government in providing them the needed relief and making their lives meaningful,” Obayan said.
In his remark, the state NDE Coordinator, Mr Isa Abdu, said that 20 persons received resettlement tools under the Open Apprenticeship Scheme and Commercial Farmers Training project in the state.
He said the training included carpentry, GSM repair, interior decoration, barbing, fashion design, catering, welding/metal fabrication, computer appreciation, plumbing, pipe fitting and electrical installation.
According to him, 10 beneficiaries of the commercial farmers training project received N150, 000 each to engage in poultry business and vegetable farming.
In his goodwill message, Alhaji Aminu Mohammed, the Area Manager, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), charged the beneficiaries to utilise the opportunity in enhancing their livelihoods. (NAN)