The Director General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, has called on Nigerian youths to always avail themselves of the opportunity provided by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to take them out of joblessness and be self-employed through skills acquisition programmes of the NDE.
Fikpo, who spoke through the Kebbi State Coordinator of the NDE, Mr Francis Ambianto Amos, at the flag off of a week-long Basic Open National Apprenticeship Training Scheme, tagged ‘B-NOAS’, on Tuesday in Birnin-Kebbi, expressed the federal government’s commitment to making sure youths in the country are self-employed through the various skills they want to acquire.
He stated that twenty people were carefully selected across the twenty-one local government areas of the state in the week-long training programme, urging them to consider themselves lucky to be among the beneficial participants of the training.
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The Director General described skills acquisition as what they can do with their head and hands, adding that the federal government is training them free without charging them any dime.
“Don’t be deceived, the skill to acquire in this week-long training is the key to your success, as a lot of people want to be part of the training but are not opportune to be selected, therefore, you should count yourselves lucky to be among the twenty people to be trained here today,” he said.
Earlier in her speech, the Director of Special Skills at the Headquarters Abuja, Hajia Amina Shettima Lema, who was represented by an assistant director, Alhaji Maman Abubakar Muhammed, urged participants to hold onto the skills they are about to acquire because it is a life-skill training which comprises discipline, focus, time consciousness and management.