Daily Chronicle
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Bauchi state has commenced a five-day entrepreneurship training for 100 unemployed youths in the state.
Speaking during the commencement of the training exercise in Bauchi on Monday, the Director General of NDE, Malam Abubakar Fikpo, said that the training would broaden the minds and horizons of the participants.
Represented by the state Coordinator of the directorate, Mr Lawan Yaya, the DG also said that the training exercise was designed to expose the participants to entrepreneurial skills as well as introduce them to loan granting agencies.
Fikpo, who stated that the training was taking place in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), said the exercise was a collaboration between the directorate and Nazee Mursaj consultant company.
“We feel that to achieve our mandate, there is a need for us to have an entrepreneurship training that will broaden your mind, open your eyes to see the nitty gritty of how to access these federal government intervention programmes.
“There are various loan granting institutions such as the Bank of Agric, Bank of Industry, Nirsal Micro Finance Bank of the CBN that are giving out loans to Nigerians.
“However, most people don’t get the loans when they apply because they don’t know the nitty gritty of accessing these loans.
“You will be introduced to various business ideas as well as various topics that would pave the way for you to actualise your dreams as entrepreneurs by accessing these loan granting agencies and becoming your own boss,” he said.
The NDE boss who explained that the participants were randomly selected across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state, however, urged them to pay utmost attention during lectures and listen attentively to all the resource persons during the training.
One of the beneficiaries, Latifat Mohammed, appreciated the NDE and the federal government for the ‘kind gesture’, adding that she would do everything possible to succeed as an entrepreneur through the training.