Tag: EMPOWERMENT

How FG’s empowerment programme will create 2.5m jobs — Minister

Aminu Imam
Minister on FG jobs

Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has outlined how the ‘Renewed Hope’s Labour Employment and Empowerment Programme (LEEP), aims to create 2.5 million jobs. Recall that in his Independence Day speech, President Bola Tinubu announced that the initiative would be launched this month as part of efforts to tackle unemployment. “It is conceived as a comprehensive suite of interventions in job creation by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, aimed at facilitating the creation of 2.5 million jobs, both directly and indirectly, on an annual incremental…

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Digital gadgets, virtual learning skills: EWEI empowers 50 girls in Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A Kaduna-based NGO, Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI) has empowered 50 adolescent girls with digital skills and access to virtual learning as supplementary education platform in Kaduna state. The founder and Programme Director, EWEI, Safiya Ibn-Garba said that the girls were empowered under the NGO’s Learning without Limit (LWL) project. Ibn-Garba said at the project’s closeout in Kaduna on Tuesday, that the 50 teenage girls were selected from eight public secondary schools in the state. She identified the schools as Government Girls Secondary (GSS) Kabala-Costain, GSS Babban Saura, GSS Rigachikun, GSS Television, GSS…

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