By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced Vocational training for six Hundred (600) unemployed persons, in Osun State, under the directorate’s Basic National Open Apprenticeship Scheme ( B-NOAS).
Speaking in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, at the orientation ceremony for the new intakes, the NDE Director General, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, who was represented by Mr Solomon James of NDE Hqs, called on all unemployed persons in Nigeria, especially, Youths, Women and people with special needs to key in into various programmes of the Federal Government, being anchored by NDE, aimed at job creation, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihood.
According to Mallam Fikpo , the NDE ‘s approach of impacting skills to unemployed youths to enhance their self esteem and become self reliant, had become the saving grace to reduce tension and social unrest among youths, who usually were always bubbling with a lot of energy, which could be positively deployed in national development.
Also speaking on the occasion, the NDE Osun State coordinator, Mallam Ismail Yekeen, said the training programme marked another milestone in the continuous efforts of the NDE to nip in the bud the growing rate of unemployment in the country.
He urged the selected participants to be dedicated, punctual at their duty post and take their training seriously, as the era of white collar jobs were fast disappearing.
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