NDE Unveils Renewed Hope Employment Initiative in Yobe

By Yusuf A Yusuf, Damaturu 

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE),has flagged-off the phase 1 of the renewed hope employment initiative starting with 1,701 beneficiaries across  the 17 local Government Areas of Yobe state.

Flagging-off the RHEI at the Women affairs ministry in Damaturu,the NDE Director General  Mr.Silas Ali Agara said,the Renewed Hope Employment Initiative is a modest short term effort at checking the scourge of unemployment in Nigeria.

Represented by the Yobe state NDE Coordinator, Hajiya Binta Aliyu,Agara said employment initiative has been designed to engage a total of 93.731 unskilled and unemployed persons across Nigeria.

He revealed that,"We have ensured that a minimum of 10 persons from each of the 8,809 electoral wards in Nigeria were recruited to benefit from the 30 skill sets across our four core programmes of Vocational Skills Development,Small Scale Enterprises, Rural Employment Promotion and Special Public Works.

"Various categories of the unskilled and unemployed have been provided for within the framework of the programme such as school leavers, school dropouts, women, graduates of tertiary institutions, retirees and persons with special needs among others,"Said Mr. Agara.

He further revealed that,after the training, a good number of the beneficiaries will be resettled into productive entrepreneurial Iives through the provision of tools, equipment and startup capital.However, those that we are not able to resettle will be linked with credit granting institutions for further support.

Earlier Yobe state Commissioner of women affairs, Hajiya Ya Jalo Badama commended the Federal Government for initiating the renewed hope employment which according to her would drastically reduces the rates of unemployed youth in the state and the country at large.

Represented by the deputy Director Human Resource Management,Zanna Aji Baitu,Ya Jalo urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity giving to them and become self-reliance stressing that many are looking for such an opportunity.

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