NDE trains 75 graduates to improve youths employability in Taraba
By Terna Chikpa, Jalingo
The National Directorate of Employment, on Friday commenced the training orientation of 75 graduate attachment to improve youths employability in Taraba state.
Alhaji Danjuma Shehu, Taraba state Coordinator of the Directorate, noted that during the training orientation in Jalingo that, the idea was the federal government’s deliberate efforts through NDE, to reduce the over dependence of graduate youths on government job.
According to him, the (GAP), training was targeted at improving the employability of graduate youths, impact relevant skills gaps and build a competent workforce to the unemployed of tertiary institution.
“The training orientation of graduate attachment is targeted to reduce the over dependent on government job by youths. The objective of the GAP training is to improve the employability of youth, impact relevant skills gaps and build a competent workforce to the unemployed of tertiary institutions.
“The (GAP), graduate attachment programme is a social intervention programme designed to address graduate unemployed by providing transient jobs to unemployed youth graduate of tertiary institutions.
“We intend to retain the talents from the organisation where they serve, since the exposure allow the employers a full assessment of the intern’s job potentials. However, in achieving the training objectives and outcome, the right participating corporate organizations should be deliberately selected and interns position themselves to develop specific skills relevant to the available jobs, particularly gaining requisite practical experience, developing employability skills and up skilling core competencies on the job,” the Coordinator explained.
Shehu also disclosed that the 75 unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions were selected across 16 local government areas of Taraba.
He noted that the GAP training orientation for graduate attachment is to last for a period of three months with a monthly stipend of N20,000 per participant
Miss Esther Philibus, one of the participant who spoke on behalf of participants, thanked NDE for the gesture and pledged that they will make the Directorate proud by participating fully in the training to achieve the programme’s aim.
