The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced the training of a set of 50 unemployed youths under its sustainable Agricultural Development Training Programme in Kogi State.
The trainees under the three-month skills acquisition programme will undergo practical and theoretical training in poultry and crop farming.
The Kogi State coordinator of NDE, Mallam Zakari Abubakar, in his address at the opening ceremony reiterated the desire of NDE to create job by impacting marketable skills in the youths.
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He identified agriculture as one of those areas that have high potentials in job creation and urged the trainees to take their training with all the seriousness it deserved.
Also the Director General of NDE, Nasir Laden Argungo, who was represented by Shade Uche in his keynote address, hinted that the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was committed to reducing poverty through job creation, adding that various successes recorded by NDE since he assumed office., which he said are aimed at curbing the negative vices prevailing among the youths that have to do with poverty and unemployment.
Abdulsalam Musa , who responded on behalf of the beneficiaries, thanked NDE and the Federal Government for the opportunity given to them to learn skills that would improve their living conditions and promised to make judicious use of the opportunity.
