NDE trains 30 Kano youths on environmental beautification

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has begun the training of 30 unemployed youths on environmental beautification in Kano metropolis.

The state Acting Coordinator of the agency, Abubakar Isah, said this at the launch of the Environmental Beautification Training Scheme on Thursday in Kano.

Isah said that the scheme was designed to train unemployed persons in the art of soft and hard landscaping, encompassing horticulture and flower production, amongst others.

He said that the training would also equip the youths on the production of fancy bricks, landscaping, building, POP production, interlocking blocks and fixing.

He said: “In its employment generation strategies, the NDE will continue to evolve new schemes in its various departments.

“The aim is to combat unemployment and economic hardship.”

He further said that the training would impart specialised and marketable skills in the participants and enhance their chances of being employed and becoming enterpreneurs.

Isah lauded the efforts of stakeholders, “who have been supporting youth empowerment in the state” and appealed for their continuous interventions.

He also urged owners of small and medium businesses, where the trainees would be posted, to nurture and mentor them to become fully established enterprenuers.

He, however, urged the participants to take the training seriously and grasp all the aspects of the package, in order to optimise the opportunity and justify the government’s investment in the scheme.

Some of the participants, who spoke with newsmen thanked the directorate and the Federal Government for the gesture and promised to share the knowledge acquired with others.