HUNDREDS OF WOMEN AND YOUTH TRAIN IN SKILLS ACQUISITION IN KWARA ……..
By: Safiya Abdulrahim Dabban
No fewer than two hundred women and youth from three local government areas of Kwara state have been trained in skills acquisition to make them self reliant.
Declaring the training open ,inTsaragi ,Edu local government area of Kwara state,Member representing ,Edu/Moro/Patigi , Federal Constituency, Honourable ,Ahmed Saba said the idea of the programme is to cushioned the effect of the economic challenges among women and youth.
He said the skill acquisition training will help create job for the teeming youths and remove their minds from social vices.
Saba advised the beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity giving to them to remove themselves out of poverty.
He urged women and the youths to be patient with the situation in the country, adding that it is a passing phase that will ease up very soon.
In his address the representative of the organisers the federal Polytechnic ,Ukana , in Akwa Ibom state ,Mr Adeyinka Julius said the training will provide the necessary skill for the trainees to become self employed.
He said trainees will acquire various skills in hair dressing,Cake making, fashion design, Barbing, Fishery, Poultry among others.
In his remark the Etsu Tsaragi,Alhaji Aliyu Abdullahi Kpoto, represented by the Makama of Tsaragi Alhaji Buhari Mohammed advised the beneficiaries to use the training to develop themselves.
In his address the chairman Edu local government area of Kwara state, Muhammed Aliyu ,assured that the local government will replicate same to cover more people.