Empowers youths in the state by providing training and employment
The Borno State Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation and Youth Empowerment, Dr. Zainab Gimba, disclosed that the state government spent N1 billion on various poverty alleviation programmes in the last one year.
Addressing journalists in Maiduguri on Saturday, Gimba said that the money was spent on the renovation of the skills acquisition centres, the training of unemployed youths, as well as the provision of poverty alleviation materials.
“We renovated and expanded numerous skills acquisition centres across the state. Equipment were supplied and installed in most of the centres and various forms of youth training are ongoing at the moment,” she said.
“The ministry distributed various poverty alleviation materials to different categories of persons in order to empower them and make them self-reliant. The items include sewing machines, power generating sets, milling machines and water pump machines for irrigation.”
The commissioner said that the ministry also distributed 5,000 tricycles to youths in Maiduguri, following the ban on the use of motorcycles for transportation in the metropolis.
“The tricycles have augmented local transport and they have filled the vacuum created by the absence of the motorbikes. They have also provided employment for the youth.”
