The Youth Empowerment and Social Support Operations (YESSO 2.0) National Programme Manager Comrade Richard Romanus, has demanded marketable skills that will grant youth employment.
Comrade Romanus who made the demand when he led a delegation to the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria, said this will take youths out of poverty.
“We have identified NDE as a major player in the success of YESSO 1.0, hence, we are here to seek the same support to make YESSO 2.0 even bigger and more successful,” he said.
According to him, most youths were unemployed not because there was no job to do “but because they did not have the required skills, marketable skills that would have granted them employment.
Through the National Social Intervention Programs under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, the manager said his team was ready to partner with the NDE to enhance empowerment opportunities for Nigerian Youths in line with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda
“We have identified NDE as a major player in the success of YESSO 1.0, hence, we are here to seek the same support to make YESSO 2.0 even bigger and more successful.”
“YESSO is about training for skills for jobs, so we will partner with NDE to train these youths on marketable skills that will make them self-employed, to be self-reliant, and to even have access to start-up funds where possible.” he continued.
“We have quite several MSs lined up for implementation that will enable the teeming youth population to become gainfully empowered and maximize their entrepreneurial potential.”
Romanus explained that the visit was to seek support and collaboration from stakeholders to help achieve the set goals for the commencement of YESSO 2.0.
“The NDE has 96 vocational skills acquisition centres across the country, including Agricultural centres and Mobil Training Workshop booths in rural area,” said the Director General of NDE.
The DG of NDE was represented by the Director, of Vocational Skills Development, Mr. Issah Abdu.
“The youth empowerment must be administered by the youths themselves,” Abdu said. “The NDE had collaborated with the World Bank in the implementation of the YESSO 1.0 Programme.
He assured that the NDE will key into different programs of YESSO 2.0 to ensure the empowerment of youths, positive engagement of the people, and things that could reduce social tension in the country.