Taraba State governor, Mr Darius Ishaku said that his administration has empowered 448 youths and women trained in different skills acquisition programmes with over N80million worth of tools. Ishaku, who stated this yesterday in Jalingo during the occasion of the graduation of the 2nd batch and flag-off of the 3rd batch of the youths and women empowerment programme, said the skills acquisition programmes would reduce the high rate of unemployment in the state. He informed that N10,000 monthly stipends would also be paid to the third batch of 648 that was inaugurated to commence training.
He added that government would deal decisively with any beneficiary who is found selling any starter packs donated, adding that it is meant to develop them. He explained that the skills acquisition training was aimed atpoverty alleviation through economic empowerment of youths and women in the state. "Most of the beneficiaries in the first batch are performing credibly well and have also become employers of labour in their various local government areas," he added.
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