Kwara govt partners N-HYPPADEC, other to end youths unemployment

The Kwara State Government has announced its partnership with the National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, N-HYPPADEC, and the Kwara Entrepreneurs and Innovations Support Network, to combat youths unemployment in the State.

According to a statement by the Press Secretary of the Ministry, Rabiat Salman, the Kwara State Commissioner for Youths Development, Amb. Hon. Shehu Usman Ndanusa, announced the partnership during the last quarterly inter-ministerial press briefing, held today at the conference room of the Ministry of Finance, on Monday.

The Commissioner reaffirmed the Ministry’s 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.

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

“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,” The Commissioner said.

He continued 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.

Highlighting the key vocational areas of N-HYPPADEC’s program, he mentioned 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.