Rivers Women To Receive Skills Training

The Rivers State Ministry of Women Affairs, has disclosed plans to expand its special skills training scheme for women to include technical skills.

Commissioner for Women Affairs,Mrs Joeba West gave the hint recently in a chat with The Tide in Port Harcourt.

Mrs West said the expansion of the scheme had become imperative to reflect current societal realities, noting that as at present, a lot of women were into technical skills but needed to be encouraged to make a living out of such skills.

Such skills include computer repairs, phone repairs, welding, video and photogaraphy.

She also hinted of plans to review and continue with the women loan scheme, “since  I asume office last year, I have been trying to study the situation and I think the loan scheme is one area we will continue as far as it will help transform the lives of the rural women.”

The Commissioner also said that there were plans to organise a forum to meet with women in the state.

Making this plans public when women under the banner of South-South Association of Market Women and Men of Nigeria(AMWNN)  embarked on a peaceful protest in support of the fuel subsidy removal to Government recently in Port Harcourt, she declared, “Since I became a Commissioner for Women Affairs, I have not had the opportunity to meet with you so we can chart the way forward”.

Pleading on the womenfolk to support the Federal Government’s deregulation policy, Mrs West argued that it was in the best interest of the country that the policy was initiated,” even some educated ones among us don’t understand what the government is doing, but I thank God for the wisdom he has bestowed on you people”.

Mrs West further enjoined the women, “we should pray to God for the Governor and the President to give them wisdom because this is the first time the South-South is having a President