NDE Trains, Empowers 4,816 Youths

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he National Directorate of
Employment (NDE) in Rivers State said it trained and empowered 4,816 youths between 2010 and 2013.

The NDE Coordinator, Chief Napoleon Amachree, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday.

He said that NDE as a Federal Government intervention agency trained and created job for Nigerian youths that were unemployed.

“The agency had carried out its four cardinal programmes during the year 2010 to 2013. “They are vocational skill development programme, special public works, rural employment promotion and small scale enterprises,” he said.

Amachree said the agency trained 1,192 youths in different vocational skills, 634, agriculture; 240, special works; 1,082, small scale enterprise and Basic Business skill; and 10, NDE Quick–Quick.

The coordinator noted that 1,658 National Youth Service Corps members were sensitised and trained at their orientation camp to be self-employed after service.

He said that the agency would continue to train youths for the development of the country.

“We are also training youths to start their own businesses; our mandate for this 2014 is to train and empower youths to develop the country. The agency will ensure that all our trained youths and the ones that are currently undergoing training will be computer literate. We will ensure that special programmes like small hydroelectric training will be given to our youths for better empowerment,” Amachree said.

He called on state government and multinational companies to collaborate with NDE to empower Nigerian youths.

Amachree appeal to state, local government and multinational companies to assists in funding and providing necessary equipments, including vehicles and other work tools for effective training.