By ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto
No fewer than 25 unemployed youths have been enrolled to undergo the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Community Based-Business Training Scheme, (CBBTS) in Sokoto State.
Flagging off the training in Bodinga local government area, the State Coordinator of NDE, Ibrahim Faisal Audu, said they are committed to ensuring the attainment of their mandate which simply seeks to create mass employment for skilled amd unskilled Nigerians.
Ibrahim Faisal, while delivering a speech on behalf of the Director General of NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fipko said
CBBTS is designed to train unemployed youths to acquire professional skills to help them translate knowledge to action using their understanding of the business environment.
Continuing, the DG said, “Twenty five (25) unemployed persons were successfully selected for the (CBBTS) Training Programme in Sokoto State.
“This is to develop the concept of business being taught by connecting them to personal first-hand experiences and familiar, accessible examples within our immediate communities”.
Giving further insights into the training, Malam Nuhu Fipko said, the training will last for three months, adding that by then, it “is expected that the participants would have gained mastery of the skills of their choice in a community”.
“The participant would also be incentivized by providing them with monthly stipends of N5,000 only during the three months training period and N5,000 monthly training fee per participant for the three months training duration.”
Malam Fipko, who also divulged that a soft loan of 25,000 naira will be given to participants to help them establish their businesses at the end of the taining, added that they will be more successful because they have skills of comparative advantage in their respective localities.
According to him, the trainees will not only identify but also build on strengths, resources and relationships that exist within their respective communities.
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He however reminded them that communities are diverse in many ways especially in their structures and nature, hence making community-based training a philosophical approach in which communities participate in addressing their local businesses.
“Situating a business training in a community without this philosophical approach makes it community-placed rather than community-based”.