About 776 small scale businesses will be established across various cities of Delta State as trainees under the state Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) and Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) will be passing-out today.
The passing-out ceremony which will take place at Songhai- Delta, Amukpe will climax a three-phase government-sponsored training programme comprising life skills and orientation course, vocational skills training and business and entrepreneurship training which commenced in August last year.
Under STEP, unemployed youths undergo training in skills or trades including computer hardware maintenance and repairs; catering and confectionary; electrical installation and repairs; barbing; bead-making; cosmetology, decoration and event management; hair-dressing and makeover; fashion design & tailoring; tiling; block moulding; Plaster Of Paris (POP) and interlocking.
Under YAGEP, unemployed youths are trained and established in their choice agricultural enterprises such as poultry, piggery, fishery and crop production.
Christened YAGEPrenurs and STEPreneurs, the first set of the first batch of successful trainees are expected to be given Starter Packs by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who will be over the passing-out ceremony.
A statement by the state Chief Job Creation Officer, Prof. Eric Eboh said the final module is “to expose the trainees to basic business management techniques and practices that will make them successful entrepreneurs and business managers.”
According to him, “this last leg of the training programme features courses on how to start a business, how to run a business, how to grow a business, how to finance a business and how to market a business.”
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