NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme Job For All Vocational Skills Development Recruitment 2025

NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme 

NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme Job For All Vocational Skills Development Recruitment 2025

NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme – Interested and eligible unskilled Nigerians who wish to gain skills or need financial assistance to grow their business are hereby invited to apply for the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) skills acquisition program for both unskilled and unemployed persons with special needs including vulnerable, physically challenged, and every other Nigerian who is interested.

NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme – Vocational Skills Development (VSD)

The Vocational Skills Development program is one of the Directorate’s job creation programs primarily which is focused on equipping the unemployed with productive, functional, and marketable skills. The skills acquisition intervention program, introduced as a novel approach to combating mass unemployment, has remained a veritable tool since the inception of NDE in 1987.

The program involves the use of NDE skills acquisition training centers across the country as well as informal sector operators such as master craftsmen and women as training outlets for unskilled school leavers. Where the informal sector operators are used, the trainees are attached with them for periods long enough for the apprentices to acquire the necessary skills. The department also deploys well-equipped mobile workshops to train unemployed youths in rural areas where informal training outlets are non-existent.

NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme – Training for the Vulnerable

This is a special vocational training designed for unskilled and unemployed persons with disability or any form of special needs i.e. vulnerable, physically challenged, widows, commercial sex workers, displaced persons, orphans, etc in order to empower them with functional skills that will enable them to become self-employed and self-reliant.

List of Available Vocational Skills and Duration

• shoe making – 6 months
• bead stringing – 3 months
• barbing – 6 months
• GSM repairs – 6 months
• fashion designing – 1 year
• catering – 1 year
• cosmetology – 3 months

Schools on Wheels 

The scheme deploys well-equipped Mobile Training Workshops (MTWs) with vocational skills training facilities to rural areas where training outlets are deficient or nonexistent: it is aimed at creating a pool of artisans that will readily address the needs of the rural environment, promotes economic activities therein and also stems the tide of rural-urban drift.

Skills Under the Schools on Wheels scheme Include

• Shoemaking – 6 months
• Bead stringing – 3 months
• Barbing – 6 months
• GSM repairs – 6 months
• Fashion designing – 1 year
• Catering – 1 year
• Computer – 6 months
• Welding – 1 year
• Electrical installation – 18 months
• Carpentry – 18 months
• Cosmetology – 3 months
• Motorcycle repairs – 1 year
• Auto-mechanic – 2 years
• Radio/television repairs – 2 years
• Interlocking tiles – 6 months
• Printing – 2 years

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The scheme is targeted at unskilled and unemployed youths both male and female to equip them with relevant demand-driven skills.

The scheme is implemented at 2 levels namely:

B-NOAS

is a scheme through which unemployed school leavers are recruited and posted to learn from master Craftsmen/women who are informal sector operators or to NDE Skills acquisition Centers to acquire marketable vocational skills to add valuable meaning to their lives.

The duration of this training is as follows;

• shoe making – 6 months
• bead stringing – 3 months
• barbing – 6 months
• GSM repairs – 6 months
• fashion designing – 1 year
• catering – 1 year
• computer – 6 months
• welding – 1 year
• electrical installation – 18 months
• carpentry – 18 months
• cosmetology – 3 months
• motorcycle repairs – 1 year
• auto-mechanic – 2 years
• radio/television repairs – 2 years
• interlocking tiles – 6 months
• printing – 2 years

A-NOAS:

A-NOAS is designed for artisans who graduated from B-NOAS. It is aimed at upgrading their skills to higher levels of competence.

LADY CHAUFFEUR:

This training is designed to impart driving skills to females who choose to take on professional driving as means of livelihood. After the training, you will be evaluated by the Federal Road Safety Corp which makes it easier for you to get a driving license.

Training Duration – 3 months

COMMUNITY-BASED TRAINING SCHEME (CBTS)

The community-based training scheme is aimed at training youths and women in high-income-generating activities within their various localities. This is with a view to engaging these youths in highly productive ventures thereby enabling them to contribute to the economic well-being of their communities and the nation at large.

Skills under this scheme include;

• POP design
• Production of interlocking blocks
• Satellite dish installation and tracking
• Interior decoration

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RESETTLEMENT SCHEME (RS)

The resettlement scheme is designed to assist graduates of the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (NOAS) with tools and equipment and working capital to enable them to establish and run their own businesses successfully thereby reducing the capital requirements to get started.

ARTISANS RESETTLEMENT MAINTENANCE SCHEME (ARMS)

Under this scheme, graduated trainees of B-NOAS are empowered with cash to start their own businesses.

TRAINERS CAPACITY UPGRADE

Towards enhancing the quality of training at the skills acquisition centers of the master craftsmen/women, the NDE introduced the TCU, this scheme involves the provision of capital as a soft loan to some of the master trainers to up-grade their centers with modern tools and equipment qualitative and effective training delivery.

How to Apply for NDE Skill Acquisition Scheme

Interested Nigerians who wish to apply for any of these skills mentioned here should complete their application form online via the National Directorate of Employment website here ndetrainees.ng or visit the NDE office in their state of residence to get registered.

Application Deadline for NDE Skills Acquisition Scheme

No deadline is fixed at the moment.

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