Nigeria: Amnesty - Dubai Firm Employs 30 Niger Delta Youths

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Thirty youths from the Niger Delta region under the Presidential Amnesty Programme have been offered jobs by the Proclad Group in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The job offer is in welding and fabrication, and came after the youths successfully underwent skills acquisition training brokered by the Amnesty Office in collaboration with the International Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Development, which partnered Proclad Academy, Dubai. Speaking in Abuja Thursday at a send-forth ceremony organised by the Amnesty Office for the youths, Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Amnesty Programme, Hon. Kingsley Kuku, said the Amnesty Office in collaboration with the International Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Development (ICNPD) partnered Proclad Academy to train the youths in various skills acquisition programmes. "To this end, the Presidential Amnesty Office under the Post training Initiative scheme is working with relevant partners and stakeholders in the region and abroad to employ some of the delegates who have successfully completed their training. "This commenced with the engagement of 1000 trainees and immediate employment of 40 maritime delegates by Century Energy Group," he said, giving the names of other training partners that have employed the youths (delegates) as Learning Resources of Ghana (10), Plant and Processing Services in Nigeria (4), Ashland Investment Services also in Nigeria (5), and Proclad Academy in Dubai (30). All the organisations employed the youths in the areas of welding and fabrication. Kuku disclosed that the Amnesty Office had also on August 31 commenced the pilot scheme of Entrepreneurial Refresher Courses, Business Set-up, Coaching, mentoring and Evaluation of 3,450 already trained youths in various vocational skills.