From Adama John, Lokoja
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kogi state has empowered 586 unemployed youths and women in marketable skills.
The training which is under the Advanced and Basic National Open Apprenticeship and Quick Fix Demand Driven Skills of the Vocational Skills Development Department is also aimed at curbing the rising insecurity across the country.
Declaring the training open in Lokoja Tuesday, the Director General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo who was represented by the Kogi State Coordinator of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Zakari, said the beneficiaries comprised 126 unemployed youths and women under the Advanced-NOAS category.
He added that 420 equivalent youths and women fall under the Basic-NOAS and 40 under the Quick Fix Demand Driven Skills.
The Director General was optimistic that the training would enable the beneficiaries acquire the requisite skills to enable them provide the needed services to the public that would add value to the society and improved conditions of living.
Mallam Fikpo expressed the hope that the Federal Government was fully committed to creating job opportunities for the unemployed citizens to reduce the menace of poverty, hunger and insecurity across the country.
He admonished youths nationwide to shun social vices like cultism, drug abuse and prostitution.
