The Director General of SMEDAN Alhaji Bature Masari, made this known during a five day workshop in Minna organized by the agency for five women corporative groups from Niger, Katsina and Gombe states.
He said Niger and Katsina states have two women corporative groups with six representatives each while Gombe state has one corporative group with six representatives. Masari said the training is aimed at empowering the women owned corporative societies in the six geo-political zones of the country to enable them handle their businesses properly toward alleviating poverty.
“The essence of the programme is to give the women business management skills in order to create jobs, create wealth and alleviate poverty in the society,’’
The Director General who was represented by his Deputy Director; Mr Monday Ewans said the measure would create jobs and wealth thereby alleviating poverty in the country. He said the workshop would enable participants to register business, business ethics, marketing, book-keeping and business plans.
Masari said the programme is made up of four components; entrepreneurship sensitization, entrepreneurship training, vocational retraining and delivery of business development services.
Our correspondent gathered that the training is the second component of the programme with the participants.
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