NDE Trains 130 Women on Vocational Trades in Kogi
From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), has commenced one week training for unemployed women in Kogi on Natural Organic Products, Beads On Cloths, Perfumery, Tie and Dye,Make Up and Event Decoration.
The Director-General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo while speaking at the flag off ceremony held at the Lugard Beach Hall in Lokoja, over the weekend, said that the programme is in pursuant of the federal government’s mission to design and implement job creation schemes that would reduce poverty, enhance wealth and employment generation as well as promotion of attitudinal change in Nigeria.
The Director-general who was represented by the Kogi State Coordinator of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Zakari, commended Governor Yahaya Bello for his continued task of providing enabling and secured environment in the state which he said had facilitated smooth operations of the NDE job creation Programmes in Kogi.
The Director-general hinted that the federal government is unrelented in tackling the monster called unemployment in Nigeria so as to reduce to the barest minimum the alarming poverty and sufferings associated with the desease.
He described women as mothers and pillars of their respective families and so deserved equal opportunities like their male counterparts.
Fikpo vowed that the federal government will continue to work towards the realisation of the NDE’s vision”Jobs for All”.
Earlier, the Head of Women Employment Branch of the NDE, Mrs Ochimana Ilebaye had congratulated the women folk for the Privileged given them to develope themselves towards becoming self-reliant.
According to her “No Women, No Nation, so, should not be left out of the scheme of things in their immediate communities”
Ilebaye reminded women across the state of the need to shun all forms of social vices and embrace labour with its diginity.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mrs Rahmat Salih Laminde praised the federal government in its aggressive drive to lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty.