NEDC Trains 150 Youths in Digital Vehicular Diagnostics and Maintenance
Daily Rendezvous - Set to Launch 28 ICT, Skill Acquisition Centers in 6 North-East States The North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has trained about one hundred and fifty youths drawn from six states of the region on Digital Vehicular Diagnostics and Maintenance. The three weeks of training were designed to curb the immediate problem of poverty and youth unemployment, which has plagued the area since the outbreak of the Boko Haram insurgency. Baba Mohammed Alkali, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission while addressing the graduates of the three weeks of intensive training said, "When this Commission was set up in 2019, we, first of all, had to go round the six states of the region to establish what the challenges of the region were and we gathered that the most pressing concerns were that of the high rate of out of school children and youth unemployment. This training is part of the initiative designed to address these problems."...