The Director General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, has called on the directorate’s business trainees to be wise in their financial investment.
Malam Fikpo said NDE’s Enterprise and Financial Counselling Clinic (NDE-efcc), scheme is aimed at guiding business persons towards solid business management.
Represented by Plateau state NDE coordinator, Mrs. Asabe Lassa, Malam Fikpo made the statement, Monday, while declaring open the NDE-efcc, training of 25 participants.
“The concept of the NDE-efcc was borne out of the desire to provide opportunity for business persons facing challenges to obtain solutions through experience sharing,” he said.
Malam Fikpo added that “the clinic also seeks to guide them in solid business management.”
The NDE Head of Department, Small Scale Enterprises, Ms. Chikodi Ike, said the NDE-efcc was also targeted at equipping participants with professional and business smile that would enhance their capacity to succeed in their chosen businesses.
Represented by Justina Akoji, Ms. Ike said the NDE has continued to pursue with vigor the three broad categories of job creation within its plans.
Ms. Ike added that, these are value-reorientation, skills acquisition training and resettlement through provision of starter packs.