Be ready to impart knowledge to your trainees,Buni to Yobe SMEs


By Yusuf A Yusuf, Damaturu.

Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni has charged 50  beneficiaries under go training on soft skills development for SMEs to consider themselves as agents of positive change ready to impart knowledge acquired to their apprentices in the state.

Governor Buni made the called on Friday in damaturu at the closing Ceremony of two-week training programme on soft skills development for SMEs in the state.

Represented by his Deputy,Idi Barde Gubana,Buni said the state have concretized its commitment by completing a ten-day training workshop for trainers of ten different vocations for 50 beneficiaries who would in turn train other 50 more youth,apprentices during a one year period as part of their contributions to the development of small and medium scale enterprises in the State.

The training was organised by Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in partnership with Yobe State Government.

He revealed that,the training is in line with the goal of the present administration in the state of providing employment opportunities and the dream of the late premier of the Northern Nigeria for a better State and Region.

"The state is proud to associate with the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in their common drive at providing employment and income generation opportunities for self-reliance to the  teeming youth in the state.

"The beneficiaries are expected to train one parson and continuously for the knowledge acquired to spread among the existing small and medium enterprises in the form of a revolving cycle of train the trainers programme for increased productivity and wealth creation in the State",said Governor Buni.


In his welcome address,the senior special assistant to Governor Buni on wealth Creation empowerment and employment generation,Abdullahi Bego,said the  training is inline with state government's vision of making people of the Yobe more economically viable for improved livelihoods.

"Governor Buni has a special passion for empowering the people of the state especially the youth and vulnerable through initiating many businesses and means of livelihood to cushion the effects of Insurgency in the state",said Bego.

In his remarks,the Secretary Board of trustee,Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation and former Governor of Kano state, Mallan Ibrahim Shekarau, explained that the foundation is an organisation institutionalised in honour of late Northern premier Sir, Ahmadu Bello(Sardaunan Sokoto).

"The foundation has been actively engaged in initiating that,the aimed to uplift and empowered people of Yobe State",said the foundation's trustee Secretary.

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