The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has trained six persons in Gombe State under the Quick Fix Demand-Driven Skills.
Speaking with journalists in Gombe,the Director-General of NDE, Mr. Silas Ali Agara, who was represented by Mrs Mawa Lamu Asmau, the State Coordinator of NDE, Gombe State office, said that the one-month training began on December 7 and would end January 9, 2025.
Agara said that the training would create decent jobs for unemployed citizens of the country.
According to him, the knowledge acquired will turn the unemployed to employers of persons within a short period.
He stated that the youths’ training centred on beauty therapy and cosmetology.
The dg said that during the training participants acquired marketable skills that would make them self-employed and reduce poverty, hunger, youth restiveness as well as other social vices.
According to him, the NDE, under his leadership is committed to combating unemployment in the country in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Mass Employment Initiative.
Agara enjoined the beneficiaries of the laudable scheme to make best use of the opportunity to exist joblessness, become self-reliance and help governments to realise the plan of providing decent jobs.
Our Correspondent reports that Quick Fix Demand-Driven Skills is a short-term training lasting for one-month designed to impart skills like Beauty Therapy/Gele Tying, Barbing, Soap Making, Basket Weaving and Small Chops on unemployed persons to enable them to become skilled and proficient enough to earn a living and contribute positively towards the economic growth of the society.
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