By Nitoni Osain
The National Directorate of Employment has commenced the recruitment of 1050 unskilled and unemployed youths for training in Bayelsa, under the 93731 job creation initiative of the Directorate.
In a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Yenagoa, on Friday, by the Bayelsa Coordinator Mr Aham Osuchukwu.
According to him, “Speaking at the launching of the Renewed Hope mass Employment initiative in Abuja by the Director General of the NDE, His Excellency Silas Ali Agara he said that the Directorate will provide Vocational, Agricultural and Entrepreneurial skills.
“Training with complimentary transient job opportunities in the public works sector using over thirty (30) different skill sets.
“This job creation initiative of the NDE finds expression in six out of the eight priority areas of the President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and will cover all the wards at minimum of ten (10) participants per ward.
“Similarly start-up capital, equipment and working tools will be provided for deserving participants at the end of the training while others will be linked to credit granting institutions to access loans to commence medium or large scale businesses.
The State Coordinator informed that interested residents of Bayelsa State can log on to www.nde.gov.ng to create an account and register with a valid Email, NIN and passport photograph.
“Reach out to the state office at the Federal Secretariat Complex Ox-Bow lake Rd Yenagoa for assistance to enroll into the programme. Successful applicants will be contacted by the state office.
