Youths
By Aminu Ahmed Garko
Minna, May 24, 2018 (NAN) Rep. Umar Bago (APC Niger) on Thursday said about 10,000 women and youths had been trained in various trades in the Skills Acquisition Centre in Minna.
Bago, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, said that the training programme was aimed at providing job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.
“We collaborate with National Directorate of Employment, Bago Foundation and Skills Acquisition Centre, Minna to specifically train the beneficiaries,” he said.
He explained that the aim was to empower the trainees, reduce poverty, make them self-reliant and be able to employ others.
“We have trained and empowered 5,500 women and 4,500 youths as part of our efforts to check indolence among them and provide basic tools free of charge for the beneficiaries to start their own businesses,” he said.
He said that the 4, 500 youths were being trained in plumbing, bricklaying, electrical installation, carpentry, handset repair, pipe fitting, painting, driving, auto mechanic and POP making.
He said that the training programme would create jobs and end political thuggery during and after the general elections.
Bago said that arrangement had been concluded to train additional 10,000 women and youths to reduce social vices in the society.
“We will be training them in knitting, tailoring, soap making and poultry farming among others and will provide them with the basic tools to start up their own businesses,” he said.
“We will be investing more in women empowerment to better their lives and to enable them become self-reliant so as to contribute to the development of the state and the nation at large,” he said. ( NAN)
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Edited by Grace Yussuf