Delta Trains Youths In Skill Acquisition

By : Hendrix Oliomogbe, Asaba

Date: 6 Feb 2016

Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa (right) in a handshake with the Orodje of Okpe, Orhue 1, while Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Monday Igbuya watches during the passing-out ceremony of Delta State Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) Skills Training & Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP), during their passing-out ceremony at Songhai-Delta, Amukpe in Sapele Council… recently.

A TOTAL of 711 trainees who acquired hands-on practical skills in business management and entrepreneurship skills organised by the Delta State Government to enable them start and run their enterprises graduated recently in their various areas of specialisation.

The celebration took place on January 14 at Songhai-Delta, Amukpe, near Sapele after three-month duration of successfully completing the second leg of the training.

It was against the backdrop that high youth unemployment rate in the country can be reduced through training in agriculture and other skills that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa performed the formal inauguration of trainees under the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) and Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) on August 26 last year.

The 2015 cycle featured 17 enterprise categories, comprising four agricultural enterprise categories and 13 non-agricultural enterprise categories. The training centres are 116 STEP and 40 for YAGEP.