NCDMB empowers 250 youths with photo voltaic, vocational expertise

The Nigerian Content material Growth and Monitoring Board, in collaboration with Jake Riley Academy, has skilled 250 youths in Lagos in photo voltaic set up and different high-demand vocational expertise as a part of efforts to advertise self-reliance and job creation.

The beneficiaries graduated on Monday from the NCDMB Lagos Youth Abilities Coaching Programme, a capacity-building initiative designed to equip younger Nigerians with sensible, income-generating expertise related to the nation’s evolving labour market.

The trainees acquired hands-on instruction in photo voltaic set up and electrical fittings, alongside different vocations akin to catering, style design, Adire making and digital expertise.

On the commencement ceremony, every participant was introduced with a starter pack aligned with their space of coaching to allow them to instantly start their chosen commerce.

Delivering the keynote handle, the Chief Govt Officer of Jake Riley Restricted, Mrs Funmi Ogbue, described the initiative as a strategic funding in Nigeria’s human capital, stressing that the nation’s most useful useful resource was its youth.

Based on her, the coaching was intentionally designed to offer market-ready and income-generating expertise able to addressing unemployment and driving native financial development.

“This programme exists as a result of the NCDMB understands a basic reality: Nigeria’s biggest useful resource will not be the oil beneath our soil, however the expertise, creativity and potential of our younger individuals,” Ogbue mentioned.

She famous that the graduands emerged from a rigorous choice course of and had undergone intensive coaching in enterprise improvement, digital advertising, monetary literacy and customer support, along with technical specialisations.

Ogbue urged the contributors to prioritise excellence, self-discipline and integrity as they enter {the marketplace}, including that technical expertise alone weren’t enough for long-term success.

“Instruments alone don’t assure success. Your angle does. Your work ethic does. Your dedication to high quality does. Your integrity does,” she mentioned.

A few of the graduands mentioned the coaching has boosted their confidence in future alternatives.

The commencement ceremony underscored the NCDMB’s continued dedication to youth empowerment and vocational coaching, as stakeholders reaffirmed the function of expertise improvement in driving financial development and nationwide self-sufficiency.