29/07/2025
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is to train over Twenty One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Two (21,782) unemployed Nigerian youths out of which Twelve Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Two (12, 462) would be resettle to commence individual businesses in the next four months. This is in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.
According to the Director-General of the NDE, His Excellency, Silas Agara, the Directorate has concluded plans to engage unskilled and unemployed number of persons across Nigeria in its Second Phase of the Renewed Hope Employment Initiative (RHEI). The first phase exercise which was concluded in March 2024 had 93,731 jobless Nigerians trained in diverse skills set with significant number resettled with soft loans as starter packs to initiate self-employment.
Under the present initiative, the Directorate, according to the Director-General, will provide Vocational, Agricultural, Digital and Entrepreneurial Skills Training with activities in the public sectors using over 30 Skill Sets.
At the end of training, significant number of the participants would be provided with Start-up Capital, Equipment and Tools as Soft Loan to commence small and medium Businesses. Enrollment into the Employment Programme which is strictly online is to commence on 28th July and end on 11th August 2025.
In a Release signed by the Ondo State Coordinator of the NDE, Mr. Adekitan Israel, training exercise for selected participants will commence in September 2025. Adekitan urges interested persons to log on to the NDE website at www. nde.gov.ng or directly to www. nderegistrationportal.ng to register with a valid National Identification Number (NIN) and a recent Passport Photograph adding that selection would be done on first come first serve basis.
