The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has trained and empowered over 6,500 women and youths on various skills acquisition programmes in Kano State from January 2020 to date under the Basic National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (B-NOAS). The programme was part of the federal government’s efforts to reduce unemployment, had also trained over 500 women on Cosmetology through the directorate’s Vocational Skills Development (VSD) programmes. Alhaji Iliyasu Ahmed, NDE Coordinator in Kano, who disclosed this in...