NDE Signs MOU With Oyo Govt. On Skill Acquisition

National Directorate of Employment, NDE has signed Memorandum of Understanding with Oyo state government to promote skill and economic self reliance.
The signing of the MOU between the two parties took place at the Agodi Government Secretariat,Ibadan.
National Directorate of Employment was established in 1987 as a manpower development agency to pursue two employment related objective of creating employment opportunities for self-employment, and enhancing employability by means of appropriate training.
Speaking at the signing in ceremony of the MOU,the Director general of NDE,Mallam Nuhu-Fikpo while commending Oyo state government for the initiative said the development would create employment for the youths in the state.
Mallam Nuhu-Fikpo said the NDE was determined to upgrade the training facilities to meet the yearnings of youths and women for skills and economic self reliance.
The DG NDE also said to meet the legitimate desire of unemployed youths on job creation,stakeholders must collolaborate.
Earlier,Governor Seyi Makinde who spoke through the Executive Assistant on Adminstration, Reverend Idowu Ogedengbe said the MOU was geared towards promoting employment of youths in the state.
Governor Makinde while admtting that the curriculum in the higher institutions has been redesigned to accomodate enterprenuer equally stressed the need to device ways of skilling and training many graduates and school leavers to take the advantages in the emerging trends in the primary and secondary sectors in the labour market.
Governor Makinde however called for mentoring and monitoring of youths under the patnership to achieve the aims and objectives of the MOU