NDE holds advance business training in Rivers
…It’s meant to inculcate skills into participants — DG
Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt
National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has organized a 2-day training programme for youths in the three Senatorial Districts of Rivers State.
According to the Director General (DG)of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, the programme tagged, “Special Public Works Advance Business Training,” (SPWABT), was meant to inculcate skills into the over 540 participants across the three Senatorial Districts of the State.
Represented by the Rivers State Coordinator of NDE,Dr Alfred Udoh, the DG urged the participants to consider themselves lucky to have been selected to participate in the training, hence the need for them to pay rapt attention to the resource persons.
The DG stressed the importance of the training, hence NDE deemed it necessary to organise it for them.
Fikpo assured the beneficiaries that the training will be rewarding.
“I welcome all of you to the 2-day training programme. I want to assure you that the training will be very rewarding and resourceful.
“You should count yourselves lucky to have been selected among the lot for this training programme.
“The DG, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo knows what it means for people to be properly trained, so he attaches importance to skills acquisition training of this nature.
“I urge you therefore to pay a rapt attention to the lectures to be delivered by seasoned resource persons in the course of the training. I wish you good luck once again,” Dr Udoh said.
In her remarks, the Director of Special Public Works(SPW) Department, Mrs Olaomi Sylvia Roseline said the President graciously extended the programme to several other participants in 2019.
Represented by Mr Okougha Christopher, she said the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo has assured the beneficiaries of previous trainings that their stipends will be paid. The Director, however, advised them to go an verify their personal data or information given to NDE and the banks properly to facilitate the payment.
She emphasized that NDE programmes are aimed at allowing the trainees acquire skills, thereby gaining employment or becoming self-reliant.
“If we truly put our minds on the training,we will be glad for it,” Mrs. Olaomi said.
Also speaking, the Head of Department (HOD), Small Scale Enterprise (SSE), Mrs Barimala S.D. urged the participants to concentrate on the training, noting that the educated cannot be compared in any way with the uneducated.
The training programme which held simultaneously across the three Senatorial Districts of Rivers State, also featured a question and answer session, where trainees sought clarifications on areas of ambiguities.
