Lagos senator unveils plan to train 1,000 youths in vocational skills

Idiat Adebule, the lawmaker representing Lagos west senatorial district, says there is a plan to train 1,000 youth in the state. 

The empowerment project aims at training the youths in vocational skills like leatherwork, confectionery, fashion designing, barbering, and hairdressing.

Speaking during a stakeholder engagement with her constituents in Ikeja, Adebule said 1,000 forms have been given out to youths in 28 local councils for the skills acquisition training.

She said on completion of the training, the beneficiaries would be supported with essential kits necessary to integrate them into their chosen profession.

The senator added that 10,000 food packs were also distributed throughout the 28 local councils as an intervention to cushion the effect of the high cost of living for residents of the district.

“Our focus is to train 1,000 constituent youths in Lagos-west to be proficient in the listed vocational skills before the end of 2024,” she said.

“I have also ensured continuous engagement with the grassroots through implementation of various social intervention programmes in support of our people at the grassroots.

“Some of the people centered interventions include: regular distribution of grains and other items, as well as cash gifts during major celebrations such as Christmas, Eid-ul-Adha, and others since December, 2022.

“In each of these celebrations between 750 and 1000 bags of rice were distributed to constituents including party members, CDC/CDAs and other stakeholders across the senatorial district.

“We have also supported our young and old farmers with about 300 bags of fertilizer in January in preparation for the planting season.

“Last November, I facilitated the training of 200 young people in fisheries at the Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research, Victoria Island and each participant was given starter capital of N100,000 as my contribution to integrate the young people of Lagos West into the new drive for the Marine and Blue Economy in Nigeria.”

Adebule said she is working on plans to lobby and attract more and bigger projects to various communities in the senatorial district.