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Mr Oghenekaro Ilolo, Commissioner for the Directorate of Youth Development in Delta, says that no fewer than 200 youths are undergoing training under the state government’s skills acquisition programme.
Ilolo said this at a news briefing in Asaba on Monday, adding that the programme was designed to empower youths in the state.
He said that the beneficiaries were being trained in cosmetology, tailoring and plumbering, among others to enable them to be self-employed.
He said that the directorate was monitoring the activities of the trainees through its zonal officers.
The commissioner charged the youths to embrace agriculture for wealth creation, saying that it would help to reduce youth restiveness in the state.
He said that the directorate recently partnered the Delta State Youth Council to carry out a revalidation of voluntary organisations in the state.
He said that the exercise was to ascertain the number of such bodies and ensure that their spread covered at least two-third of the local government areas of the state.