The National Directorate of Employment has begun the training of 3,000 women and youths under the Federal Government's Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme in Akwa Ibom State.
The NDE state Coordinator, Mrs. Patience Osunkwo, stated this while speaking with newsmen in Uyo on Sunday.
She explained that the programme would create employment and reduce poverty among women and youths in the state.
Osunkwo said the participants, who would be trained in skills like community services would be paid N10,000 per month.
She said, “Akwa Ibom State has commenced the immediate implementation of the SURE-Programme of the Federal Government.
“We have commenced the sensitisation in the 31 local governments for the recruitment of 3,000 women, youths and vulnerable persons into the community services under the SURE-P.
“Thirty per cent of the 3,000 participants have been set aside for women; 20 per cent for persons who are vulnerable either physically challenged or widows and the remaining 50 per cent is for youths.
Meanwhile, the NDE Director-General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, on Friday said the agency had disbursed equipment worth N30m to graduates of vocational skills in Cross River State.
Mohammed stated this in Calabar during the distribution of the items to beneficiaries of the resettlement programme.
