Adamawa Youths Advised To Embrace Self-employment

Youths have been admonished to acquire special skills to enhance their economic value and well-being, as the era of white-collar jobs had gone.

The state commissioner for Education, Dr Umar Pella, gave the piece of advice during the flag-off of a training by seven Training Service Providers (TSPs) for 670 youths under the Federal Ministry of Education’s IDEAS-TVET Initiative Cohort-3.

At the ceremony in Yola, the state capital, Pella said young people should recognise the virtues of personal development and self-reliance in the face of dwindling white-collar jobs.

The training covers fishery, building construction, fashion design, gemstone making, and catering and hospitality management.

The seven TSPs for the programme are The Food Tailor, Mictugy Edu Konsults Ltd, Cake Explorers & Events Int’l, Africa 33rd Enterprises, Kwadus Nigeria Ltd, Tanixz General Service, and Mirajogab Nigeria Limited.

Speaking for the TSPs, Dr Muhammed Adamu Yusuf of the Mictugy Edu Konsults Ltd, said the training program is an investment in self-reliance and economic development, which the trainees need to approach with strong determination.

Another of the training managers, Dr Nami Gaila of Taniz General Services, told the trainees that they were being enrolled in a serious exercise, after which individual trainees would be issued an international certificate following assessments by external assessors.

Flagging off the program, the Representative of the National Project Coordinating Unit of the IDEAS-TVET Project, Salisu Abubaida, said the program, which is also implemented in other parts of the country, has made a significant impact on beneficiaries’ capacity development.

The training, an intensive six-month program that comprises in-shop theoretical and practical sessions as well as an industrial attachment extension, is a World Bank-funded project.