NDE moves to resolve unemployment challenges in FCT

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), FCT Directorate, has resolved to curtail the myriad of unemployment problems bedeviling the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

FCT Coordinator of the Directorate Mrs Edna Ofordile said this at the training organised for unemployed persons under the Vocational Skills Development Department in Abuja.

She said that 65 unemployed persons across the six area councils would be trained on cosmetology, adding that the directorate was poised to resolve unemployment challenges in the FCT.

Ofordile said the training was to strengthen the directorate’s employment generating activities and to provide jobs for youths in the FCT.

She said that 65 beneficiaries drawn from the six area councils and rural communities had been selected for the training on cosmetology for two weeks.

She said that the NDE would engage the services of counsellors and successful entrepreneurs to train the beneficiaries.

She urged the FCT Administration and all stakeholders to join hands to solve unemployment challenges and move the FCT on the path of growth and economic recovery.

Ofordile also urged beneficiaries to be attentive and give their best in order to become entrepreneurs and employers of labour.

Some of the beneficiaries commended the Federal Government for the initiative.