Skills Acquisition : NDE trains women on shoe,bags making in Zamfara.




Ahmed Attahir 

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Zamfara state office has trained and empowered 20 women with skills on shoe and bags making in the state. 

Director General of the NDE Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo who addressed the beneficiaries on Tuesday during the flag off training in Gusau, said the training was aimed at making the women self-employed and employers of labour in the state. 

He explained that the training was part of the NDE's programmes designed to provide job opportunities for unemployed Nigerians with a view to reducing unemployment and to boost social and economic standard of the citizens.

The DG NDE  who was presented by the newly deployed Zamfara state coordinator Muhammad Ummaru Sanda said the NDE under its Women empowerment branch (WEB) of the small scale enterprise department has trained 740 women from 36 states of the federation including the FCT on Shoe and bags making with fabrics.


Women participants during the training session 


"This training is deliberately designed by the directorate to generate employment, create wealth and self-employment especially among unskilled women as unemployment has become a national problem" DG NDE said

He advised  the beneficiaries to be punctual and ensure they acquire the needed skills to become experts in near future as the NDE approved two thousand Naira as transport fare for the five days training and a startup loan of N20,000 to each of the trainee.

In his remark, the Head of department of Small Scale enterprise of NDE Headquarters Abuja who was represented by Mr Negedu Adajo congratulated the twenty selected women for the training.



 "I urged you to be good ambassadors of your respective families,make NDE and Nigeria happy by becoming employers of labour laxity would not be tolerated during the training", he warned. 




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