FG Partner UFUGOLD To Tackle Unemployment, Unrest In Niger Delta

By Akinwale Kasali

The Federal Government is partnering with UFUGOLD Projects Services Limited to train and empower youths in the Niger Delta Region on entrepreneurial hands-on skills acquisition.

The aim of the partnership is the determination and will power of the FG in tackling unemployment and youths unrest through entrepreneurship in the Niger Delta region.

Declaring the two weeks training activities open on behalf of the Federal Government, the Principal and Chief Executive of Officer of  Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, Dr. Henry Adimula, on Monday, 8th November, 2021, said the partnership between the FG and UFUGOLD was aimed at reducing unemployment and its effects on youths unrest.

Adimula who stated that he was confident that the youths would be well-developed within the two-week duration of the training, disclosed that they will be trained in petroleum products such as soap, cream, special corrosive painting, repairs and maintenance and various entrepreneur vocations .

He applauded and appreciated all those who put the programme together, urging participants to maximize the opportunity by putting the skills acquired during the training to practice as it would help them become masters on their own.

In his words, “At the end of the programme, all of us would become entrepreneurs, self-reliant. They will be given the necessary skills that would help them on their own”. Adimula added

The Managing Director of UFUGOLD Projects Services Ltd, Hon. Ufuoma Johngold in his remarks stated that the intensive training was aimed at  making the youths self-reliant, urging them to value the new knowledge and skills more than than the empowerment because it will turned them to employers of labours in the shortest possible time.

Johngold expressed worries over incessant reported negative vices of Niger Delta youths, said the training and empowerment became necessary in order to develop both physical infrastructure and human capital to be able to enhance significantly the quality of living in the Niger Delta region.

He further added that the main objective of the initiative of the partnership was to make the youths of the Niger-Delta region to be self-employed and to be meaningfully engaged

Admonishing participants to look beyond the start-up empowerment packages, but be determined and focused to use their acquired knowledge and empowerment start-up package to start up small various businesses and grow big.

In the same vein, Dr. Abubakar Dembo, Chief Internal Auditor of PTI Effurun, said the empowerment was necessitated by the need to develop the manpower capacity of the Niger Delta States, disclosed that the training is an annual program designed for Niger Delta youths that was designed to put youths out of unemployment.

Youths were selected from the Nine Niger Delta States and few persons from North for the empowerment programme