No fewer than 78 youths drawn from two states in the South-south geo-political zones namely Delta and Bayelsa States have completed a two-day empowerment training programme.
The training which was organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) as part of its vocational and self-employment programmes for 2025.
In the training which entailed exhaustive description of technical parameters of machines for use in Point of Sales (POS) and purpose-built power bank businesses, participants were guided through practical demonstration on how best they could get established in income-generating activities with the devices.
In a brief address at the Yenagoa segment of the training, a representative of NCDMB’s Board’s Project Office, Prince Wenidoubara Zibai said capacity building and youth empowerment were central to the mandate of the Board, and that its Management was intentional in introducing schemes such as the ongoing one to lift the youth.
“In NCDMB, we believe that if young people are trained, given appropriate skills, they would impact the wider society positively.” He advised the trainees to take the training seriously and to put equipment provided by the Board into meaningful use as soon as they complete the programme”, he said.
Earlier in opening remarks, the Project Lead of Blue Charge Company Limited, facilitators of the programme, Mr. Horace John Enemugwem, said the youth have been provided equipment, accessories and everything else required to engage in income-generating work, and that they owe it a duty to run businesses in a profitable manner.
“Do not just take the machines and put them in your house for private use,” he admonished the beneficiaries, pointing out that the power banks on each of the digital machines could be rented out and returned by customers who want to charge their phones at locations away from where an operator’s shop is situated.
Each of the participants received a 12-port power bank machine, a solar battery, a purpose-built solar panel, and cables for Android, Iphones and others, and a POS machine, among other things. The Delta State empowerment training programme was organised in Warri from 20 to 23 October, 2025, while that of Bayelsa State was held in Yenagoa on from 3 to 4 November, 2025.
