By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), on Monday, flagged-off workshop and orientation for the graduate coaching scheme to 36 participants to help reduce the rate of failure in WAEC, NECO, JAMB, and NABTEB in Taraba state.
The Taraba State NDE Coordinator, Alhaji Danjuma Shehu, during the flag-off program in Jalingo, the state capital of the flag-off/orientation programme of the Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP) in the state, said the scheme was to address youth unemployment in the country.
According to him, “This is scheme is designed by the Public Works Department to create employment for the unemployed graduate of tertiary education. It's a concept developed to help a student that has a deficiency in their various JAMB, WAEC, NECO, GCE, to make up for such grades that will qualify them for university admission”.
“It also helps to produce quality, employable and marketable personnel for medium-scale enterprises. The objective of the scheme is to create employment for unemployment graduates. To also improve and provide qualitative education to those with deficiency in their grades”, he said.
He further stressed that the modalities of the scheme will be implemented in all the states of the federations. And in Taraba Jalingo is the selected center for the training for North. Taraba Takum for South Taraba and Gassol for Central Taraba.
Shehu also stated that the scheme will only recruit participants by the SPW department and the eligibility will be open to graduates and HND holders in the education field.
The program is scheduled to run for 3 months, sensitization 1 week and the participants will take N20,000 and N25,000 per month.
While advising the participants to be serious and avail themselves of the rare opportunities, Musa Aliyu, one of the participants thanked the NDE for creating such scheme to help unemployed youths. He assure the NDE that they will be dedicated in carrying out the objectives of the scheme. NNL.
