Nigeria: Nde Empowers Kano Youths
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This Day (Lagos)
7 October 2008
Posted to the web 8 October 2008
Ibrahim Shuaibu
Kano
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has empowered thirty two youths in Kano State with equipment and tools worth million of naira, to alleviate high rate of unemployment among the youth in the state due to closure of more than three hundred industries.NDE's Kano State coordinator, Engineer Yakubu Mani said the beneficiaries have graduated from the Directorate's vocational skills acquisition training, which was designed to ensure that the unemployed youth become employed through initiatives to alleviate the suffering of the youth.
Mani explained that 978 young men and women in 24 states and Abuja are now equipped with skills to embark on self reliance, adding that the directorate would not leave any stone unturned to ensure that unemployed youth become employed through skills acquisition.The coordinator said according to statistics of unemployed youth in the country, those between the ages of 13 to 25 years are unskilled, which the directorate believes is the cause of rampant criminal activities in the country; assuring that the NDE would make sure all unemployed youths in Nigeria become employed before the year 2020 to realise the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) project.
Mani said the disbursement of skills acquisition in Kano is the seventh phase of the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (NOAS) under NDE; and pledged to make Nigerian youths benefit from the skills programs designated for unemployed youth under the vocational skills training.
He explained that the directorate would implement part of its statutory obligations with a view to drastically reduce poverty by improving on its skills development and acquisition programmes; and emphasised that the establishment of skills acquisition and jobs training centres would offer the needed panacea for youth unemployment in Kano state and the country in general.
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