FCTA to empower women through skill acquisition

The FCT Administration through the Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA) is vigorously training several women in various skills in the Federal Capital Territory.

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello stated this while receiving the National President of the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), Dr. (Mrs.) Gloria Laraba Shoda during a courtesy visit to the minister in Abuja.

The minister said that since the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari, the FCT Administration has initiated useful skill acquisition schemes through the Abuja Enterprise Agency where women from all the nooks and crannies of the Federal Capital Territory have benefitted.

Malam Bello said his administration intends to continue along that line because the women constitute a large population of the nation.

He disclosed that the FCT Administration has also keyed into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrowers’ Programme whereby two crops namely, rice and soya beans in which the FCT has comparative advantage is being promoted with women in the forefront.

While promising to foster the interests of women in the territory, he told them that his administration is working to complete all ongoing projects in the areas of health, education and so on, which have direct bearing on the common man.