In its determination to cover lost grounds owing to insurgency in the North – East, Gombe state is sponsoring 250 trainees for two weeks to gain skill under the National Power Sector Apprenticeship Programme (NAPSAS).
The programme was designed to provide skills for personnel to fill middle level manpower gaps in the Power Sector.
Eve ester Olowosejeje, deputy director, Power Ministry, representing Ambassador Godknows Igali, the Permanent Secretary, said the NAPSAS programme was conceived as a developmental and people oriented programme aimed at mitigating the problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria.
As an antidote to take the youths off the street, NAPSAS is focused on practical knowledge transfer that will, at completion, produce a transformed group of improved, innovative and aspiration qualitatively skilled people, he said.
The Permanent Secretary.assured that government will not deviate from its original plan to use NAPSS trainees as crop of middle/low level manpower required in the unbundled power sector.
It is expected that the programme will bring about the power stability in the country.
Amb. Igali challenged the trainees to reap bountifully from the programme, while thanking the Government of Gombe for sponsoring these trainees, adding that its support and interest in NAPSAS informed the organization of this 2nd phase programme.
Earlier, the Co-coordinator of training module, Engr. Ifeanyi Eze informed the trainees that the peculiarity of their needs in the North – East, guided the Solar Technology centered training. He tasked them to embrace solar technology as a means of providing electricity in abundance in the region, by this they can become change – agents for socio – economic revival of the beleaguered North – East region.
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