420 graduates gets N16.1Million from NDE

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Nasarawa State says that N16.1 million has been disbursed to 420 graduate trainees in the state between 2001 and 2014.
The state NDE Coordinator, Alhaji Idris Wase, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday 14th of January 2015 in Keffi.

Wase said that the resettlement scheme is a community- based training scheme designed to provide short term intensive training to unemployed youths and women.

NDE came in to existence in 1986, saddled with the responsibilities of training people, especially the youths and women in different skills and make them self-relaint nationwide.

The Federal Government has established the scheme to fight the high rate of unemployment and poverty which has degenerated into anti-social activities such as violent crimes, insecurity, armed robbery, drug and human trafficking among others.
From 2001 to date under the resettlement scheme, the  agency has disbursed tools and equipment worth N16.14 million to more than 420 graduate trainees in order to assist them to establish businesses and become self-relaint.

"The graduate trainees has been trained in different skills such as barbing, tailoring, hand set repairs, blacksmithing, hair dressing, knitting, painting, photography and video coverage amongst others" he said.

Wase commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his support to the Programme aimed at fighting poverty, unemployment and reduction of youths'  restiveness nationwide.

He assured the people of the state of the agency's determination to initiate positive strategies geared toward managing their peculiar poverty, unemployment and youths restiveness.

The state coordinator also urged Nigerians, especially youths to embrace different skills that would make them self-reliant and employers of labour.

NDE empowers 20 graduates on Solar energy scheme in Ondo

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on Wednesday 28 of January 2015, in Akure, the capital of Ondo state, graduated 20 unemployed graduates in the Solar Energy Training Scheme (SETS) to improve on the erractic power supply and provide opportunities for self- reliance.

This Scheme was initiated to empower the unemployed youths in the country and to provide an alternative for the erratic power supply of the nation that would cater for the needs of the people at large.

The Director-General of rhe Directorate, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, stated that SETS was one of the renewable energy training schemes designed to generate employment for unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions across Nigeria, which would in diverse ways improve the economy of the nation.

The Ondo State Coordinator of NDE, Joseph Olayinka said tje schemes were also to explore new areas of job creation for youths to develop crtical sectors of the economy and meet multiple needs.

According to him, "Energy is one of the essential infrastructure components needed for urban and rural  economic development and there is rhe enormous demands for it in Nigeria and the sector potential for employment.

So, NDE sought for other means of energy production and adopted Renewable energy Training Scheme as one of its strategies for employment generation."

He explained further that SETS equips unemployed graduates with skills for energy harvest, installation and maintenance of solar power facilities for sustainable self-reliance and to improve electricity power generation for economic development in Nigeria.

"Tosay, a number of 700 unemployed grafuates across the federation are trained in the design, procurement, installation and maintenance of solar equipment for its harvesting foe electricity generation.

This is our modest contribution of relevant skilled manpower to development and improvement of our energy sector, so i urge the graduats to become vibrant wmployers of labour that will positively affect theis generation," he said.

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