Determined to combat the menace of unemployment in the country, the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has disbursed empowerment starter packs to 22 School-On-Wheels (SOW) beneficiaries in Oyo State, who have successfully gone through its training programme.
Speaking on behalf of the NDE Director General, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, during the resettlement exercise in Ibadan, the NDE Oyo State Coordinator, Mrs Olayinka Olayemi, explained that the SOW training was designed by the agency to bring in training closer to the door step of trainees particularly those in the rural environment thereby promoting economic activities therein.
He noted that the SOW Resettlement loans Scheme, RLS, remains one of the laudable missions of the NDE and described the event as another milestone in the continuous effort of the Directorate in collaboration with the state government and other relevant stakeholders to explore new areas to deepen the fight against poverty and ounemployment in the country.
He pointed out that, NDE as an Employment Agency, strongly believe in the dynamics of capacity building of the unemployed youths to make them employable and therefore, will continue to impact relevant demand driven skills, knowledge and competence in them in line with it,s mandate Also speaking, the new Head of Department, Vocational Skills Development in Oyo State, Mrs Lawani Hilda, noted that NDE is known for poverty eradication, wealth creation and employment generation. She admonished the beneficiaries to make good use of the resettlement tools.She also explained that the beneficiaries drawn from various trending skills sets such as Beauty Therapy, Catering Services, GSM Repairs, Fashion Design and Hair Dressing were equipped by the NDE so as to enable them to be self-reliant by establishing their own businesses that will stand the test of time and in no distance time become employers of labour.
Engr. Paul Ilori, Assistant Director, Vocational Skills Development, in the State, assured that the resettlement programme will go a long way in bringing out the best in the beneficiaries in the nearest future. and urged them to make good use of this opportunity to become self-reliant and an agent of change in their communities and country at large.
