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The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Plateau state has launched the Renewed Hope Mass Employment Initiative aiming to engage 2,070 unskilled and unemployed individuals across 207 electoral wards, the state NDE coordinator, Mr. Emmanuel Dimka, has said.
Dimka said the initiative provides vocational agricultural and entrepreneurial skills training, transient job opportunities in public works, and startup capital equipment to prospective trainees.
He stated this during a press briefing held at the state office of the directorate, Tuesday in Jos.
“NDE in Plateau State has rolls out the Renewed Hope Mass Employment Initiative in line with the Spirit of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmad Tinubu,” he said.
According to him, “NDE in Plateau has concluded plans to engage 2,070 (Two Thousand and Seventy) unskilled and unemployed persons (10 each) across 207 electoral wards of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state.”
He said under the initiative, the directorate will provide Vocational Agricultural and Entrepreneurial skills training with complementing transient job opportunities in the public works sector using over 30 different skills sets.
The coordinator said interested persons can log onto www.nde.gov.ng to create an account and register online with a valid email address with a valid email, passport photograph, and National Identity Number (NIN) or contact the NDE office in their state for assistance.
He said the NDE portal is open from 21 October, 2024 and will last till 31 December, 2024.
“Successful candidates will be contacted by the NDE office for deployment to training outlets. The NDE’s mission is to design and implement programs to combat mass unemployment and develop labor-intensive work programs,” he said.
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