The National Directorate of Employment, NDE in its commitments to root out poverty and joblessness through skill acquisition schemes has commenced a four
weeks training in Quick-Fix Demand Driven Skills and three months Technocultural Crafts Training Scheme in FCT to generate employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the country.
The director general of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, who was represented at the flag-off ceremony of the twin event by Mr.
Fikpo, noted that many Nigerian communities are richly blessed with amazing indigenous cultural crafts, but are barely utilized and has received less attention from the younger generation thereby risking extinction. He, therefore, said the National Directorate of Employment designed the Technocultural Crafts Training Scheme , so as to revamp the practice of the Indigenous cultural crafts, in the rural and sub-urban areas of the country.
He added that the Quick-Fix training was aimed at making the unemployed persons to be employable by impacting relevant demand driven skills, knowledge and competence in them, to become self-reliant and agent of change in their communities and country at large.Also speaking, the FCT state coordinator of the NDE, Mr.