The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has appealed to Kano state government to support it in its efforts to check unemployment rate, especially among teeming youths in the state.
The Director General of NDE, Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, made the appeal at the opening of a 4-day Basic Business Training (BBT), held in Kano.
According to Adamu, represented by the state Coordinator of NDE, Inuwa Abdullahi Adamu, although the agency enjoys good working relationship with the Kano state government, more assistance is needed from it in a bid to solve the problem of unemployment.
The DG explained that the aim of the BBT is to encourage the beneficiaries to venture into small scale businesses.
He said 30 participants, drawn from 8 metropolitant local government areas, would benefit from the programme, which is part of the Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (EDS) introduced by NDE to make youths self reliant and improved their socioeconomic status.
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Adamu added that the agency had trained a lot of youths under its several training initiative between January and October, 2022.
Among them, according to him, are 5 scemes under Special Public Works department, under which 344 unemployed youths were trained in the state.
“We have another department we call Small Scale Enterprise Department. We conducted over 6 schemes in that department, under which we trained 308 unemployed youths. We have Vocational Skills Department which we conducted 6 schemes. Under this scheme, we trained 1998 unemployed youths.
“We also have Rural Employment Promotion Department. We conducted 4 schemws under this department and trained 250 unemployed youths.
“Currently, we have 30 beneficiaries for BBT and 50 beneficiaries for technocrat and another 50 participants of Quick Peace training who are about to round up all in the period under review,” he explained.
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In his remarks, the Senior Special Assistant to the Kano State Governor on Entrepreneurship/Intervention, Baba Abdullahi pledged to expand the number of the participants across the whole 44 Local Government areas of the state.
He also reatated the state government’s commitment to collaborate with NDE in a bid to check the issue of unemployment in the state.
He also called on the participants to judiciously practice the training they acquired in order to make the goal of the programme be achieved.
On his part, representative of the Director Small Scale Enterprise (DSSE) Saidu Salawu urged the beneficiaries to make use the what he described as golden opportunity to benefit from the scheme.
He also called on them to practice the knowledge they acquired during the training in order to improve their socioeconomic status.
