By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)
Sokoto State governor, Ahmed Aliyu, has called on the youths of the state to take advantage of the government's massive skills acquisition programmes for self-reliance
Governor Aliyu who made this passionate appeal to Sokoto youths, said the various skill acquisition programmes were introduced by his administration towards making them self-reliant.
The governor gave the charge in a statement by his Press Secretary, Abubakar Bawa, to mark this year's World Youth Skills Day. He added that plans are on to ensure more massive training of youths across the 23 local government areas of the state on skills of their choices.
Governor Aliyu, who also disclised that his administration has since started skills acquisition programmes through various departments in the state, further confirmed that hundreds of them have being trained in different trades.
"We have graduated hundreds of youths who were trained in different skills acquisition programmes carried out by the Ministries for Local Governments and that of Social Welfare as well as the Department of Community Development.
"This is just a tip of the iceberg as we intend to train more and more youths across the 23 local governments of the state," he added.
He noted that together with the youths and mastering of skills, they will jointly build an economically viable Sokoto state. Governor Aliyu assured that youths are critical stakeholders in the development of any society and must be carried along in all endeavours.
"Youths, having constituted a large number of the state's population, must be made useful, productive and self-dependent, so that they can contribute their quota to the development of the state. We'll soon make funds available to our traders and those in handcrafts and artisans to boost trade and commerce in the state.
"For our school drop-outs,we are introducing measures to take them back to schools to complete their studies. We are also working round the clock to improve our Adult Education unit for the elder to be literate," the governor assured.
Recall that 15th of July every year is set aside as the World Youth Skills Day. And leaders as well as role models take advantage of such days to advise youths on career, the future and life journey in general. NNL.
