From Tom Garba, Yola
The Adamawa state government has so far trained over 700 youths and women in various skills acquisition programmes geared towards tackling the challenges of poverty and unemployment in the state .
The state coordinator of Poverty Alleviation Programme in the state, who also doubled as the Special Adviser to the governor on Poverty Alleviation and Wealth Creation, Hon.Ayuba Audu made this disclosure while speaking with journalists.
According to Audu, the state started by training 60 youths selected from its 21 local governments on tricycle repairs. This effort, he explained, was in collaboration with an India company called Simba, a leading manufacturer of tricycles.
This was followed by another collaboration with the Industrial Training Funds (ITF) where over 500 youths and women were trained on various skills such as jewelleries and beads making, window and aluminium, handsets repairs, electrical appliances among others.
Audu added that the state government had also procured some equipment such as diagnostic devices which once inserted into handsets will immediately detect the faults and make it easy for the trainees to repair the handsets without any stress.
The co-ordinator disclosed further that the state government in collaborations with United Nation Development Programme(UNDP) are training 179 youths from three North-East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa who were carefully selected from the IDPs camps presently in Yola undergoing training in various skills after undergoing rigorous test in Jos to ascertain their mental fitness and ensure that they have no links with the insurgents.
On government decision to revisit the skills acquisition and technical training centres established by Nyako’s administration with the view to reviving it, admitting and training more Adamawa youths, Audu noted that the decision was taken in the overall interest of the state and in line with the governor’s campaign promises to provides jobs to the people of the state.
He added that the committee constituted by the government would begin tour of all the skills acquisition centres in the state and once they finished their assignment more youths in the state would be admitted and trained in various skills
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