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tie and dye, otherwise called adire.

NDE trains women on adire making in Edo
 
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Wed, 16 Mar 2016   ||   Nigeria, Benin
 

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Edo State has completed the training of hundreds of women in the art of making tie and dye, otherwise called adire.

The training, which was flagged off at the National Youths Skills Acquisition Centre in Benin, was put together by the Women Empowerment Branch (WEB), a unit under a Small Scale Enterprise (SSE) of the NDE.

The Edo State coordinator of the NDE, Ayo Edegbai, who represented the acting director general of the NDE at the flag off, in an address, said the trained women would further be provided with "the seed of funds to set up and practise the skills they have learnt."

According to Edegbai, "it is a statement of fact that our trainees' lives will never remain the same as they will soon start to practice the acquired skills and in no distant time become employers of labour.

He noted that the NDE was all out to create a new generation of entrepreneurs, who will form part of the bedrock for the economic development of the nation, adding that employment generation was the only way poverty and social vices could be conquered.

He said over150, 000 persons have benefited from the various programmes of the NDE, majority of whom are now practising their trades as entrepreneurs.

Some of the trainees expressed happiness over the training promising to make the best out of the exercise.

 

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