NAN-H-57
Employment
By Awaye Kuje
Lafia, Oct. 27, 2016(NAN) The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has offered transient employment to 45 graduates in Nasarawa State, under its Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP).
Mr Kunle Obayan, acting Director General of the NDE announced this on Thursday at the 3-day 2016 batch orientation course and enhancing employability training under the GAP, held in Lafia.
Obayan, who was represented by Alhaji Dauda Idris-Wase, Nasarawa State Coordinator of the NDE, said that the training, on enhancing the employability of GAP beneficiaries.
He explained that the training was designed to provide skills and personal attributes for the beneficiaries, as part of innovations to enable them meet current realities.
“This programme is essentially a stop-gap that gives transient employment to graduates who have completed their one-year compulsory NYSC scheme and these graduates are posted to public and private organisations relevant to what they have studied at school.
“It is also to prepare the beneficiaries for proactive and productive performance in carrying out their assignments in their various places of attachment that may lead to their retention or to re-discover themselves for self employment.
“ The resultant effects of this programme is that the engagement of these graduates takes them off the streets in search of jobs that are not available and the provision of an experience that will enhance their employability,’’ he said.
Obayan revealed that the 45 graduates employed from the state were part of the 1,665 graduates or participants engaged under the scheme nationwide.
He has also revealed that the agency had initiated a school-to-work scheme, as well as a smart- farmer programme, among others, in order to fight poverty, unemployment and boost national socio-economic development.
The NDE Acting Director General urged the participants to take the orientation lectures seriously and to discharge their duties effectively in their places of primary assignment, in order to be employed or retained by the organizations.
Earlier, the state coordinator of NDE, Alhaji Dauda-Idris Wase, represented by Mr Goar Rofgat, the agency’s Head of Special Works Department, recalled that the programme, over the years, had given succor to over 500 graduates of tertiary institution in the state.
Idris-Wase appreciated the state government for their continued support and cooperation with the agency and called for its sustenance.
He also called for collaboration with public-spirited individuals and corporate organisations towards addressing the employment challenges in the country.
Mr Bashiru Abdullahi and Lydia Joseph, who spokes on behalf of other beneficiaries, thanked the NDE for the initiative and promised to use the knowledge gained to effectively contribute their quota to national development. (NAN)
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Edited by Idonije Obakhedo