The Niger Delta Growth Fee has begun the fee of N50,000 month-to-month stipends to 10,000 indigenous youths from the Niger Delta below its Youths Internship Scheme.
The Director of Company Affairs on the NDDC, Mrs Seledi-Thompson-Wakama, disclosed this to journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, on Thursday.
She defined that the beneficiaries would endure sensible, hands-on coaching throughout the assorted organisations for 12 months to develop crucial abilities.
NAN experiences that in the course of the inauguration of the scheme on July 31, 2024, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, introduced the Federal Authorities’s approval of a N50,000 month-to-month stipend for the trainees.
In line with Thompson-Wakama, the fee has efficiently accomplished the choice course of and has begun putting trainees in organisations to realize sensible expertise.
“Consequently, with the completion of those phases, the fee of the month-to-month stipends has additionally commenced,” she introduced.
She revealed that the ten,000 beneficiaries have been transparently chosen from over 3.2 million youths who registered for the empowerment programme.
“This unprecedented response highlights the immense potential and aspirations of our youths to enhance themselves.
“NDDC stays steadfast in making certain this life-changing alternative reaches essentially the most deserving candidates, creating a long-lasting affect and paving the best way for a brighter future,” she said.
Thompson-Wakama defined that the scheme had enabled the fee to collate important information, together with the {qualifications}, abilities, pursuits, wants, and employment standing of the youths within the area.
The info, she defined, would information the fee in designing programmes tailor-made to deal with the distinctive challenges confronted by younger folks.
She disclosed that the NDDC partnered with KPMG, a world audit and consultancy agency, to reinforce the fee’s company governance framework.
“KPMG has produced a Governance Advisory Report that can function a software to help the fee’s transition from a transaction-based to a transformation-focussed coverage,” Thompson-Wakama added.
The director recommended the youths for his or her endurance and cooperation in the course of the choice course of for the scheme.
NAN
