NDE moves to resolve unemployment challenges in FCT, trains 65 unemployed youths

Unemployment
By Bukola Adewumi
Abuja, May 9, 2018 (NAN) The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), FCT Directorate, has resolved to curtail the myriad of unemployment problems bedeviling the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Mrs Edna Ofordile, FCT Coordinator, said this at the training organised for unemployed persons under the Vocational Skills Development Department in Abuja.

She said that 65 unemployed persons across the six area councils would be trained on cosmetology, adding that the directorate was poised to resolve unemployment challenges in the FCT.

Ofordile said the training was to strengthen the directorate’s employment generating activities and to provide jobs for youths in the FCT.

She said that 65 beneficiaries drawn from the six area councils and rural communities had been selected for the training on cosmetology for two weeks.

She noted that the NDE would engage the services of counsellors and successful entrepreneurs to train the beneficiaries.

She urged the FCT Administration and all stakeholders to join hands to solve unemployment challenges and move the FCT on the path of growth and economic recovery.

Ofordile also urged beneficiaries to be attentive and give their best in order to become entrepreneurs and employers of labour.

Some of the beneficiaries, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), commended the Federal Government for the initiative,  adding that it would bring the best out of them.

Mrs Zainab Sulemain, a mother of two, said she would use the knowledge gained from the training to help and provide support  for her family.

“ I graduated in 2005 and till date I have not secured any job, but I am going to make good use of this opportunity, so that I can also be an employer of labour,” she said.

Mr Murtala Abubakar, another beneficiary, advised the youth to avail themselves of such opportunity to be trained instead of complaining of no job.

“I will love people to go out and look for what they can do to support themselves and not rely on the government.

“Youths can do other things like farming and little trading for income, to keep body and soul together,” he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Ify Omowole/Felix Ajide