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THE National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says it is targeting two innovative programmes to train unemployed Nigerians to create more job opportunities for the vulnerable in the society.
Malam Abubakar Fikpo, Director-General of NDE, made the disclosure on Friday in Abuja when he spoke with newsmen on the agency’s programmes to curb unemployment challenges in Nigeria.
He was speaking on the sideline of the presentation of SERVICOM Compliance Evaluation (SCE) reports by the SERVICOM to the NDE management.
Fikpo listed two major programmes, namely Special Public Works and Graduate Coaching Scheme, to achieve the NDE vision.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SCE routine report is part of SERVICOM’s mandate to carry out an independent survey on quality of services of MDAs, to ensure citizen focused service delivery among MDAs.
The exercise taken to NDE is to identify gaps in service delivery and making recommendations by the SERVICOM to improve customer satisfaction as well as accountability by the agency.
Explaining further on the schemes, the NDE boss said the two schemes were targeted at graduates and young school leavers, to secure employment for them to make headway in life.
“We have the graduate attachment programme which is targeted at graduates of tertiary institutions where the NDE recruits them and then attaches them to well established organisations in private or public.
“This is for the purpose of acquiring the necessary or prerequisite experiences for them to go and establish their own businesses or for them to be able to gain employment and be retained by such organisation.
According to him, the Graduate Coaching Scheme is targeted at two categories of Nigerians – graduates who are not employed and secondary school leavers who are deficient.
In addition, the scheme will focuse on those who are not able to have the requisite requirements to gain admissions into the tertiary schools.
“Now what happens here is, we recruit such persons and equally recruit those graduates and ask them to coach these people to be able to resit their either WASC or NECO examinations so that they can make up and gain admission.
“So these are possible areas where the NDE can intervene on transient basis.
“As you can see, NDE has a number of programmes and schemes that are targeted at various categories of Nigerians, be it literates or illetrates, be it vulnerable or not, ” he said.
The NDE boss said the agency had many programmes targeted at unemployed Nigerians to include the youth, women, and even the elderly persons depending on the interest of unemployed Nigerians. (NAN)
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