NDE Community-Based Training Takes off in Ogun

By Olusegun Folarin

The Director General, National Directorate of Employment, NDE, Mallam Abubakar Fikpo has flagged off the orientation programme for the implementation of the Agency’s Community Based Training Scheme in Ogun State.

The Community Based Training Scheme was aimed at reducing unemployment, boosting wealth and enabling the citizens to overcome poverty, especially at the grassroots.

At the event, held in Abeokuta, Director General of the NDE, Mallam Abubakar Fikpo, who was represented by the Ogun State Coordinator, Mrs Ajoke Osinowo restated the Federal Government’s efforts at helping more youths to become employers of labour.

Mallam Fikpo said adequate measures had been put in place to ensure proper monitoring and supervision of the trainees for effective implementation of the programme.

Addressing the beneficiaries, the Agency’s Director, Vocational Skills Development, Alhaji Isa Abdu who spoke through Baliks Jimada counselled them to make judicious use of the opportunity, pointing out that there were other eligible participants yet to be considered for the scheme.

Alhaji Abdu also encouraged the beneficiaries to justify the federal government’s efforts in youth empowerment and extend vocational training to others in their communities.

In a lecture entitled ” Skills Acquisition, Absence From Drugs” the officer in charge of Narcotics, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Ogun State Command, Mrs Ifeoma Eucharia appealed to the participants to shun acts that could hinder their progress, emphasizing that drugs abuse could put their future plans in jeopardy.

Some of the 60 beneficiaries of the Scheme, drawn from across the three Senatorial Districts of the State are to be trained in different vocations such as Computer training, Bag making and Catering within the next three months, described the intervention as timely and urged the federal government to sustain the efforts to address the high rate of unemployment in the country.

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