BIRNIN KEBBI— THE Federal Government has concluded arrangement to engage
about 18,000 unskilled/unemployed youths in skill acquisition training scheme
aimed at reducing the rate of unemployed youths in the country. Flaging-off the
scheme in
Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator
Chris Ngige, said: “We are witnessing the flag-off of the Sustainable
Agricultural Development Training Scheme, SADTS, in 19 states and FCT and later
Basic National Open Apprenticeship Scheme, B-NOAS, in 36 states and FCT as well
as training of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the North-East sub-region
of the country.” Ngige listed welding, carpentry, automobile, fishing, farming
and sewing as some of the areas the youths would be trained. He disclosed that
the training involved three main planks, including two weeks adoptive and
intense fields training in crops/livestock in which the country has comparative
advantage, trainee farmers mentorship and linkage with development in money
deposit banks and off-takers. According to Ngige, the benefiting states were
carefully selected to pilot test of the scheme across the six-geo political
zones in the country.
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