KWSG to Enhance Youths Employability

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The Kwara State Commissioner for Youths Development, Amb. Hon. Shehu Usman Ndanusa, has emphasized that the Ministry is working assiduously to enhance the employabilities of youths in the State, through partnerships with related agencies. 

The  Commissioner stated this during the last quarterly inter-ministerial press briefing, held today at the conference room of the Ministry of Finance. 

Amb. Ndanusa reiterated that the Ministry proposed partnerships and collaborations with the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Industrial Training Fund (ITF), to help create employment opportunities for youths in the State.

He noted that the partnership will help equip youths with market-relevant skills for employability and entrepreneurship, while also fostering innovation and provide resources for youth-led businesses.

Hon. Ndanusa also emphasized that the Ministry in November sent participants from the sixteen (16) Local Government Areas of the State to a training programme for unemployed youths from the North Central Geo-political zones, organized by the Federal Ministry of Youths Development in Jos, Plateau State. 

He reiterated that delegates were also sent to an entrepreneurship training on product sales and marketing for unemployed youths from the States in the North Central Geo-political zones also organized by the Federal Ministry of Youths Development.

The Commissioner noted that the Ministry has partnered with Kwara Entrepreneurs and Innovations Support Network, a group of entrepreneurs and investors to foster the enlightenment and training of youths on self empowerment. 

He added that the Ministry also partnered with HYPPADEC  to empower graduates in Kwara State with vocational kits from its youths transformative programmes. The vocational areas include: fashion designing and tailoring, fish farming, poultry farming, catering and culinary services, computer, software maintenance, solar installation and inverter technology, electrical installation and maintenance, plumbing and bore hole services, metal and aluminum fabrication, among others.

"The youths empowered with the vocational kits graduated from the skills acquisition programme of the Commission that lasted between three and six months." he concluded.




Rabiat Salman
Press Secretary
Ministry of Youths Development 
08164914776

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