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By Joel Anekwe
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Rivers state has announced the commencement of training for about one thousand unemployed graduates, other youths and women in the next three months.
The training, for which recruitment is already in progress at the state office of the NDE and at the 23 local governments of the state, is in various categories and duration within a stipulated three months.
Felix Kpegasin, Rivers State coordinator of the NDE, while briefing journalists on the training, described it as one of the cardinal steps of the Federal Government, under President Muhammadu Buhari, towards poverty alleviation.
The training programmes included in the current scheme include the Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP), designed for graduates of tertiary institutions who will be attached to various companies for a period of 3 months to prepare them for eventual employment or to acquire skills; and Environmental Beautification Training Scheme (EBTS), for school leavers, school drop-outs, women and youths.
Others are Adaptive Farming Scheme (AFS), meant for persons interested in agricultural training; Basic National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (BNOAS), for persons who wish to acquire vocational skills; Advance National Open Apprenticeship scheme (ANOAS), for graduates of the Basic National Open Apprenticeship scheme and Cosmetology training, for women and youth, who are interested in acquiring skills in the production and application of cosmetic products.
Kpegasin explained that the NDE, “an organ of the Federal Government, under the leadership of Dr Nasiru Ladan Mohammed Argungu,” has the core mandate of combating unemployment and providing jobs for all through acquisition of marketable and employable skills, and in line with this, “will be recruiting unemployed persons, school drop-outs, school leavers, women, youths and other vulnerable persons for various forms of training.”
He said that recruitment for the training ends on October 14, 2019 in Rivers State, adding that staff of the directorate as well as their master trainers had been mobilised for the training.
The NDE coordinator further solicited for collaborations with multinational organisations, state and local governments and other government and private agencies in sustaining the training programmes which he said was a continuing process.