The honourable member of the Kogi State House of Assembly representing Ankpa 1 Constituency, Honourable Ahmed Mohammed has launched “The Ahmed Mohammed Skills Acquisition Programme”.
The skills acquisition programme is aimed at providing productive, functional and marketable skills to the unemployed in Ankpa local government area.
The scheme will provide a platform to help train the participants in productive ventures to enable them become self sufficient, and active contributors to the development of the society.
Participants will be well trained, and at the end of the training, will be equipped with the necessary resources required for them to practice the skills they have acquired. The skills acquisition and empowerment programme is built on an active, experimental and practical learning sessions to train people on different skills of their choices.
According to the statement made available to Kogireports by Suleiman Abu Maryam, the thrust of the scheme is to provide technical and vocational training for the unemployed, equip the participants with the required skills needed to gain valuable employment or become self-employed. The scheme will all aid participants to become self-reliant and reduce dependency on other people.
The scheme is specially designed for persons without formal education, School leavers and dropouts, Persons living with disabilities, widows, the homeless and other vulnerable people, and fresh graduates from tertiary institutions who desire to acquire functional and marketable skills.
Training will cover a wide range of specialized skills like automobile engineering (Mechanic), electrical engineering, aluminum works (Almaco Training), tailoring and fashion designing, shoe making, baking, event management and decorations, phone repairs, graphic designs, house painting, barbering and hair dressing, facial makeup, interior decoration, laptop/computer repairs, beads making, brick (Block) making, photography and floor tiling.
Details on enrollment and training will be released soon.
