Dangote to employ 350 LSETF graduates
The Executive Secretary of Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), Akintunde Oyebode has applauded the plans by the Dangote Group to employ over 350 graduates of the Fund’s Employability Support Project.
Oyebode at a briefing in Lagos said the eight-week intensive training by the Fund helps to provide a viable platform to bridge the gap of shortage of skilled and employable labour required to fill the needs of the job market.
Oyebode described the gesture by the Dangote Group and other partners as one that will bridge manpower skills gap and ensure that businesses operating in the State make it to world-class brands.
“We are satisfied with the quality of our trainees and the scheme in general. I enjoin other corporate organizations to follow Dangote’s lead in recruiting the well trained and certified manpower that the
Employability Support Project has produced and supporting the Lagos State Government in its effort to bridge the unemployment gap in the state,” Oyebode said.
Harping on the essence of the job fair recently held in Lagos, the CEO, Arc Skills Nigeria CEO, Amit Washington represented by the General Manager Mrs Ebunoluwa Bolodeoku said the move by Dangote and its partner vendors to employ trainees of the Employability Support Project, is a testament to the quality of the scheme.
It is fulfilling that a multinational organization of Dangote’s calibre has shown interest in recruiting a large number of our trainees,” Washington said.
He added that about 150 graduate trainees have also been selected for immediate employment in addition to 600 job commitments from leading organizations such Brickhouse Construction Company, Genesis Cinemas, Crown Nature Plc, David Wej and Construction Kaiser, among several others.