APPLICATION FOR EMOTELGLOBAL FREE ENTREPRENURIAL SKILL ACQUISITION FOR YOUTHS IN NIGER DELTA REGION ENDS 12MIDNIGHT, 27 APRIL 2017

INTRODUCTION
This is a specific project for the youths of the Niger Delta Region to further their specific skills for example, Carpenter, welding, Computer engineering, graphic designing, typing, hair dressing, electrical maintenance and others. Shortlisted applicants shall be trained on his /her desired.

Skill is very important in the life of every human being. The reason why many technicians earns more than some university graduates is because the technicians acquire more practical skills than the theories, unlike the graduates who were fed with theoretical experiences while in the universities. 

It can take you to places you do not expect you will find yourself. Skill acquisition is the ability to be trained on a particular task or function and become expert in it. It is a pity that there is “huge” parading of unemployment in many parts of Nigeria today especially in Niger Delta Region. This is giving many youths in different parts of the Niger Delta today a sleepless night and it contributes to the ongoing Crisis in Niger Delta.

It is one of the causes of rapid growth in crime in many parts of the Nigeria. But do you think there is any relationship between someone who has acquired skill on how to perform a particular job and make money from it and unemployment? The answer is no because the skill he has acquired can always speak for him/her.

Today, there are many unemployed graduates in the country. This is partly as a result of our long system of education that is more of grammar and not much practical learning.  It is evident that the highest number of unemployed is found in the African Continent. The truth remains that the major causes of the unemployment among these vibrant youths is lack of skill to back up what they learnt from their institutions of learning. When these graduates were still in school, they did not border to learn at least one single skill, maybe that which is related to graphic designing, typing, hair dressing, electrical maintenance and others. If they have learnt any skill at all, the rate of unemployment will reduce among them.

Skilled person can survive in any environment.” As water is very essential to human life, so is skill training and acquisition needed in the life of every serious minded human being. Skills can do a lot of great work in the life of every living soul. Lack of entrepreneurial skills is one of major causes of corruption.

For these reasons, Development Education Centre (DEC Enugu) during the past 3 decades engaged in the provision of entrepreneurial Skills acquisition programme which empowered over 3000 out of school female youths from 500 communities in the South East of Nigeria since its inception.

We are targeting all aspects of career skills including

§  Computer Literacy

§  Fashion & Designing

§  Cosmetology

§  Catering and Hotel Management

§  Bag/Shoe making

§  Hair Dressing

§  Bead making.

§ Bread Baking

§ Soda Pop

§ Cake and, etc

Equipment’s and free interest loans will be given to the graduating students to enable them take off smoothly.

EMOTEL GLOBAL OIL shall in the same vain introduced Business Education for these youths, to empower them with the needed knowledge and understanding on how to do business in a tough economy like Nigeria.

The importance of Entrepreneurial skill development  in our society today cannot be over emphasized because gone are the days when jobs were available everywhere both in the private and public sectors of the economy and employers go about looking for potential graduates for employment. The question of choice of job or the type of employer the one would like is now a story after graduation is now thing of the old. White collar jobs are scarcely available. Hence many graduates are desperate to get any job to keep body and soul together. Indeed there is paradigm shift in the labour market.

Therefore, the need to acquire and develop specific entrepreneurial skills cannot be neglected because entrepreneurship is vital to creating employment and indeed a special form of employability for graduates. Empowerment helps individuals or groups to fully access personal/collective power through knowledge, skills and motivation for proper functioning in their society and contribution to the economy. The importance of acquiring entrepreneurial skills includes

·         Self-employment: a skill acquired man is a self-employed man. A self-employed person can never go hungry nor go to commit nuisance let alone as militant because the skill he acquired provides food for him/her on a daily basis. But one who lacks skill acquisition will find it difficult to be self-employed because he/she has nothing to offer.

·         Crime Reduction: Skills acquisition reduces the crime rate in our society. People begin to think on many dirty activities they will do to make money when they do not have anything to call job of their own. But with acquired skill by an individual he/she works and makes money from his/her acquired skill. This will make him/her to feel comfortable in life and do not disturb his/her life in any way. Also the skills acquired by the citizens who were indulging in crime before can be used to convert those who are still partakers in such bad practice. They can go after their old bad friends and teach them the new skills they acquired thereby converting them to good.

CONCLUSION

A skillful person speaks with confidence while the none skilful is filled with fear. Entrepreneurial skills builds individual self esteem, engender growth process and changes that is never ending. Therefore, friends learned or not, are hereby encouraged to go for skills acquisition because good and lucrative skills acquired can make ways where it seems there is no way.

PARTNERSHIP:

Nigeria Bank of Industry

Niger Delta Oil Producing companies

Niger Delta States Government

Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)

Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)

Nigeria Presidential Amnesty Programme

Ministry of Works

Ministry of Petroleum

Federal Republic of Nigeria

United Nation Organization for Human Rights

Interested applicants should log onto http://emotelglobaloil.com/skill-acquisition-form/