THE Director-General of National Directorate of Employment, NDE, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, yesterday said that about three million Nigerians had been trained and empowered on different skills acquisition.
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Mohammed, who disclosed this in his address at the Inauguration of the Governing Board of NDE in Abuja, said that the directorate was established with the mandate of designing and implementing programmes to combat unemployment and articulate policies aimed at developing work programmes with labour intensive potentials.
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The DG said that under the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme, NOAS, of the Vocational Skills Development Department, the NDE had engaged Master Trainers all over the country, noting that the presence of the directorate in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory had been tremendously felt through the implementation of its numerous programmes.
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The Minister said that between January to December, 2011, about 182,797 unemployed unskilled youths were empowered.
Skills acquisition is always very important in whatever we do in life. We have to know this for a fact....Nice one.