Skills development is an important part of the ILO's campaign for decent work because a job seeker's employability depends a lot on the skills he or she has learned.
Hon. Orah made the call while on an official visit to the NDE South East Zonal Office in Akwa, Anambra State, to check on how things were going at the station. He stressed that government policies needed to be carried out in the right way to achieve the goals that were set for the good of all Nigerians.
She also talked to the office staff and complained about how young people in the South East aren't interested in vocational skill training. She spoke out strongly against the trend of youth wasting time and money, especially on social media, when they could be taking advantage of opportunities in the vocational skills sector, which the Federal Government is pushing through the National Directorate of Employment.
According to a statement given to journalists by Onuma Acha, Senior Information Office of the Zonal Office, the NDE board member emphasised that the vocational skills sector in developed countries has grown to the point where it is a major player in the job creation space.
So, she told the staff at the NDE zonal office to get ready for the big job of putting together a huge campaign to spread the message of the NDE to everyone in the five states of the south and east. She insisted that the youth in the zone can only have a paradigm shift if their attitudes change.
Concerning the need to "institutionalise" vocational skills practise, she told the people who run the NDE programmes in the South East to work together well so that they can help the unskilled and unemployed in a meaningful way.
Hon. Orah then told the staff that the NDE Board and Management were ready to make sure they had the resources they needed to do their jobs well. She promised that the Board would look into the operational problems that were found during the visit, as much as they could with the resources they had.
