News: FCT SURE-P Graduated Fresh 203 Trainees

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) has graduated fresh Set of 203 youths in various vocational skills.

The graduands were trained in various vocational skills which included event management, soap making, baking, shoe and bag making, household chemicals, catering and photography.

FCT Permanent Secretary, John Chukwu, who spoke the event noted that the FCT Administration, through the completion of the training, had already recorded greater strides towards building the capacity of youths who he observed constituted a large number of active population.

He urged, the beneficiaries to see the investment as the proverbial mustard seed sown that was expected to develop into strong and solid small-scale businesses.

Chukwu assured the youths in Abuja that the administration would continue to prioritise their capacity-building for self-employment even as it, in collaboration with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) under the National Industrial Skills Development Prograrnrne, had trained a critical mass of 1000 youths in various vocational skills.

The permanent secretary assured that the FCT administration would replicate the achievements recorded in vocational training in 2015.

Also speaking, the coordinator of FCT SURE-P, Mr Isa Art, maintained that the vocational training was an aspect of the Social Safety Net Programme of the FCT SURE-P designed to ensure that the youths in the territory were empowered

He assured the graduands that arrangements has been concluded with the Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA and the Enterprise Development Centre (EDO) to expose, them to the right entrepreneurship training and mentoring aimed at assisting them to establish themselves on a sound footing

Source: Nigerian Tribune