NSCC sets to link older persons to job opportunities

By Albert Akota

The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), has launched its Continuing Engagement Bureau (CEB) Program to enable it link older persons both skills and unskilled to job opportunities
The Director General, NSCC, Dr. Emem Omokaro who disclosed this during launch of the CEB Program and Stakeholders Sensitization and Capacity Enhancement, said the Program will focus on senior citizens who are retired professionals, experts and practitioners in diverse fields.
She added that the NSCC through the CEB Program is working to maximize the latent potentials of the older persons and also to reinvent themselves by reinventing roles and finding new opportunities.
“The Continuing Engagement Program also has provisions for older farmers and artisans both in the rural and urban centres who would be encouraged to register on the portal as Cooperatives and to be connected with opportunities for productive activities and for markets”, said Omokaro.
“We are looking at the fundamental human rights of older persons. Right to work, maximize their potentials, and right to access the labour market in whichever form they wish to”.
‘The Centre is exploring the opportunities, one of which is to keep the senior citizens active and facilitate opportunities for them to continue to utilize their skills and passions in whatever way, “She said,
People Daily Newspaper recalled that NSCC in March 2023 held a Service Level Collaboration and Review of the Dummy Portal and other Support Instruments for the Establishment of NSCC Continuing Engagement Bureau (CEB) Program.‘The Centre is exploring the opportunities, one of which is to keep the senior citizens active and facilitate opportunities for them to continue to utilize their skills and passions in whatever way, “She said,
People Daily Newspaper recalled thament Bureau (CEB) Program.