The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is training 130 women on skills acquisitions and trades to improve their livelihoods in Borno State.
 
The five-day training is on scarf making and make-ups, tie and dye and beads/stone making with perfumes. Flagging off the skills acquisitions, in Maiduguri at the Federal Secretariat Complex, the NDE State Co-ordinator, represented by Usman Maiduguri, said the training of women was to restore their means of livelihoods during the over a decade Boko Haram insurgency in the state.
 
In a breakdown of skills training, he said that out of 130 participants, 50 each are in for tie and dye; scarf making and make-ups, while 30 women are being trained in beads/stone making with perfumes.
 
Speaking on the importance of the training, Yakubu Yahaya of the NDE headquarters, Abuja said: “The training of women on skills acquisitions, is for their benefits and future economic prospects in the state.”
 
He, therefore, urged the women to fully participate in the five-day training to acquire various skills and trades to restore their lost livelihoods.