NASENI trains 100 Katsina youths, women in fashion, business skills

About 100 youths and women have acquired new skills in modern methods of tailoring and fashion design as the empowerment programme by the Federal Government through the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) moved to Katsina State.

Advanced sewing machines and other modern tailoring equipment and other starter pack worth millions of naira were handed over to the beneficiaries of the scheme to help them expand their businesses.

Katsina State Commissioner for Land and Survey, Usman Nadada (left); Chairman of the occasion, Nasiru Daura; Executive Vice Chairman, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammed Haruna and a beneficiary of the programme, Himisu Adamu at NASENI’s Skill Acquisition Training and Youth Empowerment in Katsina State…yesterday.

Clothing is one of the basic human needs, he noted, and fashion is very lucrative; which is the reason youths should continue to embrace it.

According to Haruna, the only missing link for the practitioners is “the absence of application of modern tools, techniques, creativity for growth and business expansion.

He said the gaps observed were the areas President Muhammadu Buhari directed NASENI to fill for the women and youths in Katsina and the environs.

A focal point of the Buhari administration and promise to the youth was the creation of 10 million jobs before the end of the tenure.

“It is important to note that the business of fashion and design is both lucrative and volatile because it is about style, trend and human taste that are constantly changing by the day. Any tailor that is not updating his or her knowledge will be thrown out of business,” he said.

Governor Aminu Masari, represented by the Commissioner for Land and Survey, Usman Nadada, hailed Buhari on the initiative to directly train the youths.

He said: “Through the deployment of this modern equipment and upgrade of their skills, the beneficiaries would keep their jobs and their work also becomes interesting and sustainable. They will possibly find new customers beyond Katsina.”

Haruna urged the trainees to guard jealously and utilise the expensive machines that would launch them into the modern fashion industry.