ABOUT 776 small scale businesses will be established across
various cities of Delta State as trainees under the state Skills Training and
Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) and Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs
Programme (YAGEP) will be passing-out today.
The passing-out ceremony which will take place at Songhai-
Delta, Amukpe will climax a three-phase government-sponsored training programme
comprising life skills and orientation course, vocational skills training and
business and entrepreneurship training which commenced in August last year.
Under STEP, unemployed youths undergo training in skills or
trades including computer hardware maintenance and repairs; catering and
confectionary; electrical installation and repairs; barbing; bead-making;
cosmetology, decoration and event management; hair-dressing and makeover;
fashion design & tailoring; tiling; block moulding; Plaster Of Paris (POP)
and interlocking.
Under YAGEP, unemployed youths are trained and established in
their choice agricultural enterprises such as poultry, piggery, fishery and
crop production.
Christened YAGEPrenurs and STEPreneurs, the first set of the
first batch of successful trainees are expected to be given Starter Packs by
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who will be over the passing-out ceremony.
A statement by the state Chief Job Creation Officer, Prof.
Eric Eboh said the final module is “to expose the trainees to basic business
management techniques and practices that will make them successful
entrepreneurs and business managers.”
According to him, “this last leg of the training programme
features courses on how to start a business, how to run a business, how to grow
a business, how to finance a business and how to market a business.”
Credit: SunNews
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