The Sokoto State Government said that it had trained 500 unemployed youths from different parts of the state in domestic electrical instillation, fashion designing, tailoring and cosmetology.
The state Commissioner for Youth Development, Alhaji Musa Ausa, disclosed this at a ministerial briefing in Sokoto. He said that the exercise was aimed at creating job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.
Ausa said the state government paid N5,000 monthly allowance to each trainee for the three months the programme lasted. He noted that the present administration was also financing another skill acquisition programme for women in Tureta, Tangaza and Tambuwal local government areas.
“The women would be trained in snacks making, tailoring, soap making and knitting, among others. The aim is to make the women self-reliant and contribute positively to the development of the state,” he said.