NDE TRAINS 740 PERSONS IN NATIONWIDE COMMUNITY-BASED BUSINESS TRAINING SCHEME
REPORTER: UGONNA AGU
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says it is training 740 unemployed participants nationwide in its Community-Based Business Training Scheme.
The NDE Director General, Malam Abubakar Fikpo, made this known in a message to the commencement of the Community-Based Business Training Scheme in Amakohia Uratta, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo state.
Malam Fikpo, who was represented by the NDE Imo State Coordinator, Mrs. Chisara Egwim, said the Directorate was training 20 unemployed persons in the selected Community per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Mrs. Egwim explained that Community-based Business Training is a way to develop the concepts of business by connecting the unemployed in a given community to trainers to give them first-hand training in a given trade.
“The training is aimed at Imparting skills that are business-oriented to unemployed community persons, establishing self-employment amongst the grassroot unemployed persons and creating impacts within the community,” Mrs. Egwim stated.
Mrs. Egwim noted that the trainers in the chosen community must possess a minimum of Junior Secondary School Examination Certificate and must be residing in the selected Community.
She also noted that the participants would be trained in Decoration and confectionaries, Wig making and Gele tying, Customology as well as perfumery.
Earlier, in her speech, the Director in-charge of Small Scale Enterprises in the state directorate, Mrs. Theresa Nwachukwu, representing the state Coordinator, urged the trainers to come down to the level of the trainees and teach them as little children who did not have prior knowledge of what they were being taught.
Mrs. Nwachukwu encouraged the trainees to be focused and take the training seriously, so that they would learn the trade and be able to impact the knowledge on others.
“Learn a trade so that at the end of the day, you will see something to put on your table for your family, your relatives and the people who look up to you,” Mrs. Nwachukwu advised.
One of the trainers, Mrs. Chinyere Udeh, who would be teaching confectionaries and decoration, commended NDE for the opportunity given her to impact knowledge on others, and promised to give in her best.
A trainee, Miss Chioma Asike, expressed gratitude to NDE and pledged, on behalf of other trainees, to abide by the rules and regulations of the training and not let NDE down.
Radio Nigeria gathered that the participants would also be incentivized by providing each of them with a monthly stipend of N5,000 monthly training fee and N 1,000 for consumables for the three months training duration.
Also a soft loan of N25,000 would be given to each of the participants at the end of the three months training to enable them establish their business.
EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU
