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The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on Sunday in Ilorin launched a two-week skill acquisition empowerment programme for 1,000 women and youth in Kwara.
Mrs Buhari said that the programme was part of her pet project, `Future Assured Programme’ which was a social intervention aimed at ameliorating poverty among youths and women.
She said that series of social programmes initiated by the present administration were aimed at transforming the lives of youth and womenfolk in particular, who formed a great chunk of the unemployed in the country.
The president’s wife expressed concern over the myriad of social problems plaguing the country, which she said, had turned substantial part of active and agile youths to social miscreants.
According to her, the official launch, will, therefore, commence with the first batch of 1,000 unemployed youth and women selected from across the state.
She admonished the beneficiaries to be active participants in the exercise, adding that at the end of the programme, an examination would be conducted.
Mrs. Buhari said that those that scored the approved mark of attendance and pass mark would be empowered with working tools and kits for various trades.
She listed the skill acquisition programmes to include tailoring, catering, soap making, computer training and electrical works.
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed said the state government would not relent in ensuring that women and youths in the state were employed.
The governor, who was represented by Commissioner for Information, Mahmud Ajeigbe, pledged to complement federal government’s efforts at making people self-reliant and productive in the state.
Zakariyau Babatunde, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Empowerment, commended the president’s wife for her initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty.
He advised the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the empowerment skills as it would go a long way in solving the problem of unemployment among youths and women in the state.
Source
NAN
One thousand, nine hundred and thirty-three NYSC Batch “A” Stream Two corps members posted to the state have been trained on eleven different skills for self employment.
The training which took place at the Umunya Temporary Orientation Camp also featured exhibition of some of their hand works.
As part of activities lined-up for the two weeks orientation programme by the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC for corps members across the country, a nine day intensive training on different skills acquisition has also been introduced, such as Agro-allied, ICT, Education, Environment, automobile and beed making as well as food processing and preservation, Culture and Tourism, Power and Energy among others.
Addressing the corps members during the closing ceremony of the training, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and Export, Mr. Afam Mbanefo, said every youth should gear towards entrepreneurship, financial literacy and understand the economics of whatever they do.
Mr. Mbanefo urged corps members who choose Agriculture as their skill to form co-operative society and work with the Ministry to develop their skills further.
The State Coordinator NYSC, Mr. Oluesgun Olawale said the skill acquisition training is aimed at making the corp members self-employed, employer of labour and not job seekers.
Mr. Olawale who noted that the Scheme is partnering with Bank of Agriculture, Central Bank and others to assist the corp members with loans to the tune of one million naira to establish after their service year stated that they use their NYSC discharge certificate as collateral.
In their separate speeches, some of the corp members, Dr. Gift Nwanaga from Abia, Shiri Obadiah from Nasarawa State and Samuel Nweze from Ebonyi State who chose different enterprises under Agro-Allied as their skill, while thanking the NYSC for the training which they described as an eye opener, promised to make a living through it, employ more people and contribute to food sufficiency in the country.
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