The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), in partnership with Abuja Graduate School, has completed a five-day intensive training for 25 youths on solar energy installation and maintenance in Ogun State.
The NDE Director General, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, in his closing remarks said the training was packaged to eliminate the growing darkness within communities due to irregular public electric power supply.
Represented by the Ogun State Coordinator, Alao Babatunde Ismail, the NDE boss stated that the training was intended to impart the trainees with the requisite skills to provide renewable energy to mitigate the shortfall in electric power supply.
He further reiterated that the training, anchored by experienced Resource persons will ensure the graduates proficiency.
The Ogun state coordinator further reteirated that the training was an integral part of the Buhari administration’s agenda to take 100 million people out of poverty by the year 2030, at the rate of 10 million people every year.
He maintained that the role of electricity in economic development of any nation, including Nigeria, cannot be overemphasized, hence the conceptualisation of the programme to empower youths in order to empower others.
One of the beneficiaries, Shekoni Zakariyah, commended the NDE and its partners for the training, saying that they would ensure that they put what they have learnt are implement.
Also, the Head of Department SPW department in Ogun State, Mr. Akinsanya Mobolaji Remi, said the exercise held simultaneously in the 36 states and Abuja, urging the youths to embrace skill acquisition and support the federal and state governments in the fight against unemployment in the country.
