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  • NDE engages over 19,000 graduate trainees in Yobe

    The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Yobe State has engaged 19,780 graduate trainees in the state in the last 12 years.

    The State Coordinator of the Program Malam Umar Yunusa disclosed this at opening session of five day training for Graduate Attachment Program (GAP) organized the NDE in the State.

    Malam Yunusa disclosed that over the years, the NDE has systematical tried to solve the problem of unemployment across the country by training and sending out graduates to organisations whom in some cases are retained on permanent basis.

    The Yobe State NDE boss called on the beneficiaries to take advantage of the program and make the best out of it so as to secure pensionable jobs from those organisations they are attached to.

    He explained that 15 beneficiaries each were chosen from the three senatorial zones of the state, adding that the NDE through its inspectorate unit ensures that beneficiaries are monitored in their areas of assignment to rate their performance and other wise.

    The representative of the Director General at the occasion, Engr. Haruna Idris who is also the Principal Public Works Officer of the NDE said the organisation is working at build a bank of trained unemployed graduates where employers can come in and hire professionals that they need.

    He called on the beneficiaries to concentrate on the five days orientation training so as to reap the benefit of the scheme, stressing that, “only discipline and dedication will market them to those organisations that they are posted to. It is therefore an opportunity that they should not allow it pass by”.

     

  • FG concludes plans for Boko Haram rehabilitation

    FG concludes plans for Boko Haram rehabilitation

    Arrangements have been completed for the deployment of 800 repentant Boko Haram members to Gombe state for rehabilitation and onward integration back into the society.

    Brigadier General Bamidele Shafa, Coordinator, Operation Safe Corridor, the Federal Government programme for the rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram militants spoke in Gombe when the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Malam Muhammed Sani Sidi visited the camp on Monday to supply food items.

    General Shafa said the operation was not an entirely military as there are 14 other government agencies, and Non-Governmental Organisations involved in it.

    He said the operation was humanitarian but being led by the military at the moment because “operations in the north-east of Nigeria are largely handled by the military.”

    “I want to believe that as soon as the military operations are wind down, Operation Safe Corridor could be ceded to civil authority which by constitution is supposed to handle such operation,” he added.

    He said Operation Safe Corridor is a programmed designed by the Federal Government to de-radicalise, rehabilitate and reintegrate members of Boko Haram who have repented and willingly surrendered their arms.

    He said the programme would be conducted in line with the international standards and about 12 different trades and vocations would be taught them while they undergo rehabilitation so that they could be self-reliant by the time the exercise is over.

    He said the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) which would avail their facilities training and some NGOs would be on hand to help in for the skills acquisition aspect of the Operation.

    Malam Sani Sidi, Director General, NEMA who was at the campsite to present foodstuffs to be used during the rehabilitation said what the Agency presented was enough to last for three months.

    He said there were enough foodstuffs in their store to last for atleast on whole year, but that it would be released on quarterly bases.

    Some of the food items handed over are: 410 bags of rice, 400 bags of beans, 200 bags of millet, 200 bags of sorghum, 750 cartons of spaghetti, 50 cartons of Maggi cubes and 810 cartons tomato paste..

    Others include: 101 Vegetable oil in 20 liter jerry-cans, 101 palm oil in 20 liter jerry-cans, 50 bags of salt, 100 bags of sugar, 420 cartons of milk and 420 cartons of Milo chocolate.

    The non food items include: 800 pieces of mattress, 500 hundred pieces of blanket, 500 pieces of nylon mats, 1000 plastic buckets, 1000 plastic spoons, 1000 plastic cups 1000, plastics plates, 1000 plastic pairs of slippers, 2000 men’s wear, 63 cartons of bath soap and 1000 bath towels.

    Sidi said the Federal Government through NEMA was ready to provide all the needed support and collaboration in the area of food supplies, to ensure the success of the programme.

    The camp Commandant pledged total commitment to the programme’s success as well as to use the items provided for the purpose they were meant for.

  • NDE trains 50 women in Jigawa

    NDE trains 50 women in Jigawa

    The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced training of 50 women in Tie and Dye making in Jigawa under the directorate’s Women Employment Promotion (WEP).

    The Directorate’s Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Muhammad Sambo, said this while inspecting the training session on Tuesday in Dutse Local Government Area.

    Sambo said the beneficiaries were drawn from the state`s North-Central Senatorial District comprising Dutse, Buji, Birninkudu, Kiyawa, Gwaram, Miga and Jahun local government areas.

    “The gesture is to enable the beneficiaries to set up their own businesses, become self-reliant and employers of labour.

    “It is also to empower the women to contribute meaningfully to the economic growth of their families, communities and the state.

    “Women will be accorded special attention considering the level of their vulnerability in the society,’’ he said.

    The coordinator said the beneficiaries would also be trained on basic business skills to enable them set up their own businesses.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the five-day training, which began on May 16, would end on May 20.

     

  • NDE hailed for complimenting Osun’s youth empowerment

    The Osun State government has hailed the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) for complementing its efforts in empowering the youths for national development.

    Speaking at distribution of working tools worth N2 million to thirty youths from various trades in Osogbo, the state capital, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, said engaging the youths economically must be paramount in any government’s agenda.

    The SSG, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Bureau of Cabinent Services, Mr. Ademola Akinyemi, maintained that no time could be better for empowering the youth than now that the country was facing a financial tsunami, which he said had started since 2014.

    He said: “In 2013, the financial mess was compounded with an alleged theft of 400,000 barrels of crude oild which later dovetailed into fall in oil price at the international market. The implication of this shortfall in revenue later manifested some signs of weak economy to an extent that President Mohammadu Buhari said that 27 states found it very difficult to pay workers’ salaries.

    “Also, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. David Babachir Lawal, also disclosed that the Federal government borrows an average of N600 billion every month to argument workers’ salaries. It is that bad. But we are fortunate in Osun through the financial ingenuity of our governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. We have been able to cut the salary arrears into two.”

    He advised the youths against looking for white collar jobs, saying paid jobs are increasingly difficult to find.

    The SSG further‎ advised the youths and fresh graduates to take the advantage the opportunity offered them by the NDE and to remain focus and responsible citizens.

    The Acting Director-General of the NDE, Mr. Kunle Obayan, represented by the South West Zonal Director of NDE, Mr. Soares Adegbite, said the plan by the Mohammadu Buhari administration to create mass employment for unskilled and unemployed Nigerians has started.

    He also disclosed that the NDE’s vocational skills training would soon be‎ extended to the remaining 18 states of the federation.

    Earlier, the Coordinator of the NDE in Osun State, Mr. Sola Andrew Daramola, ‎reminded the beneficiaries that these “working tools are provided as soft loans and have three years repayment period after your initial deposit of ten per cent.”

    He enjoined them to ‎pay back the loans in order for the scheme to be sustained and to benefit others.

     

  • Edo NDE trains 100,000 youths- official

    Edo NDE trains 100,000 youths- official

    No fewer than 100,000 youths in Edo have benefited from the various training programmes of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), an official said.

     

    Mrs Ayo Edegbai, the State Coordinator of NDE, disclosed this on Wednesday at the flag-off of Community Based Skills Training Scheme for youths at Uzairue in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.

     

    “The NDE as an intervention agency for job creation has touched over 100,000 people in the state through its four core programmes.

     

    “The directorate will continue to fine-tune its programmes and strategies in line with international best practices to meet the increasing challenges posed by unemployment,” she said.

     

    Edegbai said the youths were trained in vocational skill development, small-scale enterprise development, rural employment promotion and special public works.

     

    The NDE coordinator called on groups, philanthropists, non-governmental bodies to partner with the agency in training more people to bail them out of poverty.

     

    “Let me enjoin all individuals and agencies capable of supporting unemployed persons to collaborate with NDE to reduce the real and possible consequences of unemployment in our various areas.”

     

    Earlier, the Programme Facilitator, Mrs Abibat Yakubu, said 100 youths were expected to undergo three months training in tiling, hair dressing, cosmetology, catering and phone repairs.

     

    “The Community Based Skill Training Scheme will equip the youths with aggressive and up-to-date marketable vocational and technical skills to enable them to enter the road to self-reliance, self- actualisation and self-fulfilment.

     

    “The idea is to engage unemployed youths in productive ventures thereby enabling them contribute to the economic wellbeing of the local government, state and the nation as well as to curb rural-urban migration,” Yakubu said.