NDE disburses starter packs to 32 graduate trainees in Taraba
By Terna Chikpa
The National Directorate of Employment on Thursday disbursed starter packs for vocational skills development to 32 graduate trainees in Taraba state.
Alhaji Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, the Director-General of the directorate noted during the exercise in Jalingo that the development was to empower unemployed youth with skills to become self-reliance and be employers of labour.
The DG who was represented by the Taraba state coordinator, Alhaji Danjuma Shehu, explained that the disbursement which was anchored under the Vocational skills development department was in line with the directorate’s mandate to combat mass unemployment and create wealth, as the Vocational Skills Development Department have over the years trained youths and women in rural areas in different Vocational skills across all sectors of the economy with the use of informal training outlets in rural areas.
According to him, the Community-Based Training Scheme has injected a large number of areas across the nation through the introduction of unemployed youth to specialized skills training in some selected demand driven marketable skill, sets peculiar in their immediate environment.
“The disbursement is in line with the directorate’s mandate to combat mass unemployment and create wealth. The Vocational Skills Development (VSD) Department have over the years, trained youths and women in rural areas in different Vocational skills across all sectors of the economy with the use of informal training outlets in rural areas, targeted at preventing young Nigerians from relapsing into the labour market.
“I wish to remind you that this gesture is a loan that has to be repay back for others to also benefit. You will have a three month grace before commencing the repayment.
“In order to strengthen this achievement, the Vocational Skills Development (VSD) Department is to carryout Special Resettlement loan package for seven hundred and seventy two (772) graduates of Community Based Training Scheme (CBTS) (i.e 2 beneficiaries per LGA) in eighteen (18) states.
“The disbursement will take place in Adamawa, Borno, Oyo, Ebonyi, Ogun, Cross-River, Lagos, Enugu, Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom, Abia, Niger, Nassarawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Taraba and FCT.
“Our target group is the graduates trainees of Community Based Training scheme (CBTS), and two (2) graduates trainees from each Local Government Area were selected to benefit and set up businesses and become employers of labour in Taraba state,” he said.
Responding to the development, two of beneficiaries, Miss Bilkisu Usman and Mr Usman Yahaya, appreciated NDE for the gesture and promised to make the directorate proud.
Our Correspondent reports that, beneficiaries selected across (16), local government areas of Taraba include, Kadija Abubakar Dasso, Akpen Patience Ngohile, Sa’adatu Ibrahim, Mubarak Saedi, Collins Yusuf, Muawiya Zubairu, Usman Yahaya, Mustapha Iliyasu, Nafisatu Nasir, Galina Habu Isa, Amina Ibrahim Aliu, Asakawa Adahnu Innocent, Aliyu Usman, Ibrahim Abdulahi, Jamila Haruna, Musa Adukadir, Helen Ayuba, Daniel Kefas Abimiku, Azumi Yusuf Ajiya, Bilkisu Usman, Saudatu Laila Ahmed, Aisha Musa Muhammad, Amadu Hamman Adama, Faizu Saleh Haladu, David Roseline Olayemi, Nakaya Tanko Samson, Sadiq Abdulsamad, Elizabeth Aiga, Muhammad Zulhatu, Rabi Ishaku and Bilkisu Dasso.
