NDE, UNDP train 56 youths in marketable skills

56 youths have been trained in marketable skills by the National Directorate of Employment ( NDE) and United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP).

Speaking at the resettlement exercise in Bwari, an Abuja suburb, the Acting Director General of the NDE, Abubakar Fikpo, restated the commitment of the Directorate to the sustenance of provision of marketable skills and adequate jobs for unemployed Nigerians.

The 56 youths were in catering services, photography and GSM handset repairs under the Youths at Risk Programme of the Directorate.

According to Mallam Fikpo, the disbursement exercise was part of the Federal Government efforts at enhancing job creation and promoting self reliance.

The 56 youths and women who were drawn from Kogi and Plateau States were trained marketable skills. The Acting DG revealed that the training is aimed at delivering marketable and functional skills to the beneficiaries, thus creating pool of competent artisans ready to contribute positively towards the development of their locality and the nation at large.

He stated that after six months of intensive training, the beneficiaries of the empowerment exercise are expected to set up their individual micro enterprises within their immediate localities where they will contribute to economic growth of the nation. He lauded the United Nation Development Programme ( UNDP) for partnering the NDE in delivering the training and the starter packs to the beneficiaries.

He further revealed that the UNDP has remained a strong partner of NDE and a veritable institution for the promotion and execution of job creation initiatives in Nigeria.