NDE Trains Youth On Landscaping

The National Director
ate  of Employment (NDE) has commended a three-month free intensive training for 25 unemployed youths  on landscaping and plaster of Paris (Pop) in Nasarawa State.
The state coordinator,  NDE, Alhaji Dauda Idris-Wase, made this known,  Monday in an interview with newsmen in Lafia.
Idris –Wase  said  the beneficiaries  would  also be  trained on other  environmental  beautification skills to enable them become self-reliant and employers of labour.
He said the Environment Beautification Training  Scheme (EBTS) was a Federal Government efforts to create  employment  opportunities for unskilled and unemployed Nigerians.
According to him, “NDE is saddled with responsibilities of training people especially youths and women in different skills acquisition programmes in the country in order to be self reliant and contribute their quota to national development”.
He explained that the training would focus on specialized areas such as hard landscaping, POP and  floor tiling works.
He said the programmes was carefully designed  to align with the  current demands of the  prevailing economic activities of the country, saying, “the  Environmental Beautification Scheme was conceptualized  by the Special Public Works Department (SPWD)”, adding  “it is just one out of a variety of programmes being carried out by the programme department in line with the  NDE mandate”.
The coordinator called on employed Nigerians  to take advantage of the agency’s various skills acquisition programmes to exit  joblessness as well as to contribute their  quota to  national development.
He appealed to state and local governments, non-governmental organizations and  affluent members of the society to partner  with the NDE, especially in the resettlement of the beneficiaries.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mr. Khalid Tameem,  expressed  appreciation to   the  management of NDE for the training  and pledged to put into  practice the acquired skills while calling for support from the state and local governments to enable them settle  down for business.