The Osun State Skills Upgrade and Entrepreneurship Development Training Programme anchored by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, will begin on Monday 25th November 2024.
In a statement by the Honourable Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Rev. Bunmi Jenyo in Osogbo on Sunday, the programme, which is in batches, is to train five hundred (500) participants in ten categories of skills, for this present quarter of 2024.
The three-week training programme is expected to be officially flagged off by the Commissioner at the SDG Skill Acquisition Centre, Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government area of Osun State, on Tuesday, 26th November, 2024.
The main objective of the programme is to train the unemployed and other people of the State to reduce poverty and create wealth among the interested people of the State, without unnecessarily chasing white collar jobs.
Individual applicants are to pick a skill area of interest while Entrepreneurship Development Training, which is compulsory for all the participants, is to be handled by the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).
The skill areas in the programme include leather works, paint-making/painting, soap & chemical production, phone repair, head-tie and make-up, barbing, fashion design, hairdressing, catering services, beads and bead-making.
The statement also indicated that members of the public who need multiple streams of income can also be part of the training programme.
The trainers are tested and experienced artisans who have been imparting knowledge to participants, with a view to making them self-reliant in their chosen skill areas.
The statement also added that the graduating participants shall be entitled to a certificate and a seed-loan of fifty thousand naira (#50,000) only, after graduation, from the Osun Micro Credit Agency, as a start-up capital.
The statement charged the prospective participants to use the opportunity created by the State government under the leadership of Sen. Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke to become their own boss and potential employers of labour.
Another batch of the programme is expected to be held in the first quarter of the forthcoming year 2025.
Signed: Rev. Bunmi Jenyo, Honourable Commissioner, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Osun State. 24/11/2024.
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