NatThe National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced basic business training for beneficiaries of its environpreneurship development scheme in FCT, Abuja.
The Director General of the NDE, Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, while speaking to the trainees at the training’s flag-off in the FCT, described the program as one of the government’s many endeavors to combat poverty and provide employment opportunities in order to improve people’s lives and eradicate poverty from the country.
The NDE Director General, who was represented by Mrs. Anita Obetta of the NDE national headquarters, stated that the 30 beneficiaries had previously received training from the organization on how to turn waste products into profitable ventures.
He added that the main goal of the 4-day training was to provide the beneficiaries with a foundational understanding of how to launch, finance, and operate business ventures using the skills they had already acquired to become financially independent and independent.
In a similar vein, the NDE-FCT state coordinator, Mr. Chimereze Noble, stated that the training’s main goal is to familiarize the beneficiaries with the skills necessary to launch, operate, and sustain a successful business. He urged beneficiaries not to take the opportunity for granted and to be committed to the training by making sure they pay close attention throughout the training in order to benefit from the training’s goal of helping them become successful.
“Acquiring skills is good, but understanding how to set up a small business from the skills so acquired is what will improve the livelihoods of the beneficiaries and equally generate business and employment opportunities for others”, he noted.
Also speaking the head of department, Small Scale Enterprise (SSE) of the NDE-FCT Mrs Grace Aondoakaa said the beneficiaries are expected to be exposed to various training modules ranging from Motivation for Entrepreneurs, Forms of Business and legal Responsibilities How to source for fund to start business, Record Keeping, Costing of Product/Service, Marketing, Business Ethics, Purchasing and Stock Control, Causes and Prevention of Business Failure, among others and encouraged them to be committed in a bid to increase their knowledge base which would gear towards enhancing economic sustenance.
Mr. Omotosho Ola Abiodun, one of the beneficiaries thanked the NDE for the rare opportunity made available to them to change their lives and promised to make good use of the opportunity to improve their lives.
