The Kano office of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced the training of 1,000 women and youth as part of the Directorate’s drive in creating jobs for the unemployed.
Addressing beneficiaries of the programme in Kano Friday, the state coordinator, Malam Iliyasu Ahamed, said the training was designed to stimulate business initiatives of the target beneficiaries to enable them to identify opportunities leading creation and promotion.
He said the training was aimed to provide avenues for self reliance and to also provide participants with the ability to put their potentials into practice in addition to curbing the growing rate of unemployment among the youth.
Ahamed said the task of providing job opportunities to the youth through capacity building followed by support of enterprises creations “requires concerted efforts and close collaboration with NDE so that other youths could also benefit from such golden opportunities.”
In his remarks, the director-general, NDE, Dr Muhammad Nasir Ladan, said the Directorate was fully committed to providing jobs predicated on the premise of self-reliance being one of the major cardinal objectives of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
According to him, with millions of youths seeking job opportunities, the creation of white collar jobs would not be realistic in the present dispensation.
Ladan, who was represented by Alhaji Mammam Abubakar Muhammad, called on the beneficiaries of the training to reciprocate the laudable gesture.
He stressed that providing jobs opportunities to millions of unemployed youth “has been paramount on the priority list of the Buhari administration.”
