The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) through its Women Employment Branch (WEB) under Small Scale Enterprise Department, has commenced a 5-day training for 30 women in souvenir production in Ogun state.
The training also includes skills acquisition in batik production for about twenty women, which according to NDE will serve as income generation for the beneficiaries.
Speaking at the flag off, the NDE director general, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said the management since its inception has designed various schemes and programmes to tackle unemployment in the country and souvenir and batik production are some of them.
Represented by the Ogun state coordinator of NDE, Mrs Oshinowo K. A, the DG noted that program, with inputs of the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, is geared towards fulfilling the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu on women empowerment.
Oshinowo added that participants were selected across the three senatorial districts of the state.
In his remarks, the director, Small Scale Enterprise Department, Alao Babatunde Ismail, who was represented by the HOD SSE in Ogun state, Ojineka Victoria, noted that the NDE has recruited competent resource persons that will impart skills and knowledge to participants during the training.
