Business
NDE Restates Commitment To Youth’s Empowerment
The National Directorate
of Employment (NDE) last Wednesday reiterated its commitment to empower youths through skills acquisition for self reliance and job creation.
The Directorate made the pledge in a statement signed by Mr Abdulrahman Mohammed, its Information and Public Relations Officer, made available in Abuja.
The statement quoted Mohammed as saying the commitment was in line with the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
He said the Directorate in January 2015 graduated over 100 youths who had for six months been intensively trained in various skills, including fashion, catering, design and metal fabrication.
Other areas of skill include electrical installation, computer training, plumbing and auto-tronics.
The NDE public relations officer said the training was aimed at empowering and keeping youths out of the labour market and enable them to explore their potential for self employment.
He added that the Directorate was poised to situate its operations within the mainstream of the economic restructuring of the present administration’s reform policies.
He noted that NDE would further reduce poverty through productive activities that would advance the MDGs and the transformation agenda of the Federal Government.