National Commission for Nomadic Education, NCNE, stressed the need to empower youths with various skills for the betterment of Nigeria.
Executive Secretary of the commission, Bashir Usman, stated this at the opening of a four-day workshop on the development of training manuals for skill acquisition for nomadic youths in Abuja.
Usman said that the initiative of empowering the youth through skill acquisition and sustainable livelihood could help reduce the poverty rate in many rural societies and reduce youth restiveness.
Usman said that the programme could also help in reducing social vices, such as cattle rustling, kidnapping, raping, rural banditry, piracy and incessant conflicts, leading to wanton destruction of lives and property.
According to Usman, when a youth learns a skill, he can use such skill to feed, send his children to school, assist others with employment and invest to secure the future.
Usman, however, urged the participants to put in their best in developing the standard training manuals for skill acquisition for nomadic youths.
