The group expresses its willingness to collaborate with the directorate in order to provide long-term intrapreneurship skills that will assist young people in realizing their potential.
Mr Richard Romanus, National Programme Manager, young Empowerment and Social Support Operations (YESSO), emphasized determination to address Nigeria’s young unemployment.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), YESSO 2.0 is a federal government social investment initiative funded by the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP). Romanus announced this during a working visit to the Director-General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Abuja on Monday.
Powered By He expressed his readiness to partner with the directorate towards providing an enduring intrapreneurship skills that would help the youngsters to realise their potentialities.
According to him, the initiative have became imperative as it would deliver the youths from the shackles of poverty, deprivation and exploitation by engaging them in productive venture
“We are here to seek for collaboration and support from stakeholders like the NDE to support us achieve the set goals for the commencement of YESSO 2.0 Programme” he said
“We are ready to partner with your organisation with a view to enhancing employment opportunities for thousands of Nigerian Youths in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“We have identified NDE as a major player in the success of our programme 1.0, that’s why we are here to seek the same support towards making the YESSO 2.0 even bigger and more successful” he said.
Romanus said, YESSO 2.0 has lined up programmes for implementation that will enable the teeming youth population in Nigeria to become gainfully employed to maximize their entrepreneurial potential.
“Many young people are unemployed not because there was no job for them, but because they do not have the required and marketable skills that would provide them with employment skills and opportunities”
“YESSO programme was about training on skills for jobs, so we will partner with NDE to train these thousand of youths on marketable skills that will make them self-employed.
” We would ensure that they have startup funds where possible” the programme manager stated.
Earlier, the Director General of the NDE, Abubakar Fikpo, represented by the Director, Vocational Skills Development, Issah Abdu, expressed the readiness of the Directorate to support the YESSO’s initiative.
He assured that the Directorate would continue to partner with relevant institutions towards supporting federal government’s efforts in addressing youth unemployment that will lead to poverty reduction in the country. The D-G used the opportunity to congratulate the newly appointed manager of YESSO 2.0 and his team.
Fikpo maintained that, the administration of youth related programmes must be run bu the youth themselves. He said, NDE had successfully executed the implementation of YESSO 1.0 Programme through collaboration with the World Bank.
He therefore assured the visitors that NDE will partner different segment of YESSO 2.0 programme to ensure its success. The D-G also told the gathering that NDE has no fewer than 96 vocational skills acquisition centres across the country.
He said, the centres includes Agricultural and Mobile Training Centres as well as Workshop booths in rural areas spread across the country.
