NDE distributes materials to 500 unemployed persons in Taraba

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Sunday, distributed empowerment materials to 500 out of the 1,400 unemployed persons trained on cosmetology in 2018 in Taraba .

 NDE distributed the materials to beneficiaries at a ceremony in Jalingo.

Argungu who was represented by the Taraba Coordinator of NDE,  Alhaji Aderemi Adebisi, urged the beneficiaries to make maximum use of the materials to change their lives.

He said NDE was poised to creating employment opportunities for teeming unemployed persons in Nigeria for a better society.

He said: “The aim of our intervention is to assist graduates of various schemes to establish their own business and workshops for self-reliance.

“NDE has for over three decades undertaken a wide variety of employment promotion and poverty reduction activities and has positioned itself to play dominant role federal government efforts to fight unemployment.

“The directorate has adopted pragmatic employment promotion programmes which are anchored in training for skills acquisition, promotion of public work programmes using labour intensive techniques,” he said.

Earlier in a welcome address, the state Coordinator, Alhaji Adebisi said all NDE programmes were aimed imparting skills to job seekers to make them employable.

Adebisi, whose speech was read by Mr Albert Olorunniyi, the Chief Public works officer of NDE in the state, said the directorate had introduced a job centre as a counseling unit to re-orientate the psychology of job seekers to stop pursuing white collar jobs.

Miss Mariam Ardo, one of the beneficiaries commended the directorate for not only training but also empowering her with materials to start her business.

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