The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has organised a five-day enterprise clinic with a view to guiding participants in solid business management.
About 1,235 business owners across the 18 states of the federation participated in the first phase of the exercise tagged. NDE-Enterprise and Finance Counseling Clinic (NDE-efcc).
Speaking in Asaba, Director General of NDE, Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said the clinic would provide opportunity for business persons facing challenges to obtain solutions from experienced business owners and counseling sessions.
Represented by Delta State coordinator of NDE, Onyeogo Sylvanus, Fikpo bemoaned the high rate of unemployment which he observed would even surge higher.
Fikpo stated that as a step towards curbing unemployment, NDE has initiated various schemes targeted at graduates, school leavers, school dropouts and artisans.
According to him, the schemes were designed to “inculcate in the unemployed Nigerian graduate and other interested persons, the spirit of entrepreneurship, creativity and self-reliance with a view to assisting them set up their own businesses.” In his remark, NDE head of department, Small Scale Enterprises, Chikodi Ike, said the second phase of the clinic would cover other states not captured in this first phase.
Represented by the Assistant Director of Planning, Research and Statistics, Edith Onoku, Ike said the clinic would enhance the capacity of the participants.
Some of the participants thanked NDE for the clinic, noting that the knowledge gained would put their businesses back on the right track.
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