NDE trains unemployed graduates on solar power in Bauchi

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has flagged off the training of graduates in Bauchi State under the first phase of the Solar Energy Training Scheme (SETS) 2017.

Speaking at the opening ceremony at the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) Secretariat, Bauchi, yesterday, the Director of Special Public Works (SPW) Department of the NDE, Mrs Henrieta Achigbu, said the scheme would boost electricity power generation and reduce the unemployment problem among graduates in the country.

Achigbu, represented by Mr Chris Bamsida, an Assistant Director in SPW, said the scheme was implemented in 12 states namely Bauchi and Yobe (N/East), Katsina and Kaduna (N/West), Niger and Kwara (N/Central), Delta and Edo (S/South), Ogun and Lagos (S/West) and Anambra and Enugu (S/East).

For the phase one in Bauchi, 30 graduates from the local governments in Bauchi South Senatorial district were selected by the NDE in collaboration with Senator Suleiman Nazif.

In his address, the Director General of NDE, Dr Nasiru Ladan Mohammed, said SETS would enable unemployed graduates to explore new employment opportunities to develop critical sector of the economy and the National Needs.

Mohammed, who was represented by the Bauchi State Coordinator of NDE, Alhaji Lawan Yahaya Ali, said solar energy has become an alternative to the epileptic power supply in the country with huge potentials.

Senator Suleiman Nazif, represented by Alhaji Galadima Abba, said that he was optimistic that SETS programme would bring smiles to thousands of unemployed graduates in the country.