The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Leader in Adamawa Hon. Abubakar Abubakar with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, have trained and empowered various youth and women on entrepreneurship skills.
The training includes; fashion design
laundry/drycleaning a n d catering/confectionaries among other entrepreneurship skills.
Speaking while distributing the empowerment equipments, the youth leader commended the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the SMEDAN Mr. Charles Odii for considering the youth who are the most vulnerable group in the society.
Abubakar also expressed optimism that with the collaboration between the agency and his office, the gesture will go a long way to solve unemployment in the state as the beneficiaries will also become employers of labour.
He added that, the youth who have various entrepreneurial skills and productivity, under the programme will be self-employed and also empowered to start their business, and other youth will get training from them.
The Youth leader urged beneficiaries to be hard working, and take advantage of such training as it will add value to their life and make them useful to the society.
He described such commendable efforts by the agency, as it was aimed to reduce poverty and unemployment among youth and women and also to make them productive.
Some of the beneficiaries while responding during the program, commended the SMEDAN and appreciated thr State Youth leader of the APC for facilitating empowerment.
They also promised to utilize the knowledge acquired during the training judiciously for them to be self reliant.