SDGs to train, empower 1,000 youths in Gombe

Alhaji Mohammed Umar, the Coordinator, Sustainable Development Goals, Gombe State, says more than 1, 000 youths will be trained on agricultural production and other empowerment programmes in the first quarter of 2017.


Umar stated this while speaking with newsmen in Gombe on Friday.

He said that under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), many young people were trained, empowered financially and resettled by the state government.

The coordinator added that the state government in collaboration with MDGs recently trained 1,000 Education Marshals and posted them to primary and secondary schools in the state for surveillance.

“Under SDGs programme, we plan in 2017 on training 1, 000 or more youths in various fields toward empowering them to be self-reliant and to be employers of labour,” he said.

He said that another set of 500 youths would be trained in the area of fishery and animal husbandry, among other aspects of agriculture.

According to him, women will also be empowered to become self-reliant.

He added that at the end of the training, beneficiaries would be resettled to enable them to contribute meaningfully to the economy of the state and the country at large.