NDE trains 130 Borno women on skills acquisition
26 May 2022 |
2:12 am
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is training 130 women on skills acquisitions and trades to improve their livelihoods in Borno State.
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.
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