The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has trained and empowered 26 Plateau youths with starter packs to establish businesses.
The youth were earlier trained on Environmental Beautification Training Scheme (EBTS), landscaping – hard and soft as well as Plaster of Paris (POP), for a period of three months.
Mallam Ibrahim Abdulazeez, state coordinator of NDE in Plateau, who disbursed cash and work tools to the trainees in Jos, said the items would assist them to establish their businesses, adding that the beneficiaries were trained to join the pool of entrepreneurs.
He said 10 of the beneficiaries were trained on hard landscaping, eight for soft landscaping and eight for the POP.
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“Under POP, the total loan target is N180, 000 for each of you. This consists of the work materials and the cash component of N102,950.
“For the soft landscaping, the total loan package is N150,000 with a cash component of N49,000. For the hard landscaping is N130,000 with a cash component of 95,400,” he explained.
He said the empowerment package was a loan that the beneficiaries were expected to start paying back after three months of establishing their businesses.
The Director General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Fikpo, represented by Mrs Beatrice Ordu, congratulated the participants for the privilege of being chosen to benefit from the training and resettlement scheme, urging the beneficiaries to be prudent with their tools, to excel in their craft and be a blessing to others.
A beneficiary, Mr Silas Gabriel, appreciated the NDE for the opportunity they had given them, pledging that they would use the items judiciously to establish their own businesses.
