Gombe sends 250 trainees for NAPSAS training

Determined to cover lost grounds as a result of insurgency in the North – East and in particular,Gombe State,the governor, Ibrahim Dankwanbo has sponsored 250 trainees for a two-week training under the National Power Sector Apprenticeship Programme (NAPSAS).
NAPSAS is designed to fill middle level manpower training gaps in the Power Sector.

Dankwanbo
The Permanent Secretary,Federal Ministry of Power, Amb. Godknows Igali,represented by Mr. Ebenezer Olowosejeje, Deputy Director in the Ministry at Abuja, said the NAPSAS programme was being conceived as a developmental and people oriented programme aimed at miligating the problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria.
He said as an antidote to take our youths off the street, NAPSAS is focused on practical knowledge transfer that will at completion, produce a transformed group of improved, innovative and aspiration qualitatively skilled people.
Igali gave the assurance that government will not deviate from its original plan to use NAPSAS trainees as crop of middle/low level manpower required in the unbundled power sector. 
“Through NAPSAS, it is hoped that the desired result in power stability will soon be experienced in the sector.”
Amb. Igali challenged the trainees to reap bountifully from the programme, while thanking the Government of Gombe for sponsoring these trainees, adding that its support and interest in NAPSAS informed the organization of this 2nd phase programme.

Godswill
Earlier, the Co-coordinator of training module, Engr. Ifeanyi Eze  informed the trainees that the peculiarity of their needs in the North – East, guided the Solar Technology centered training.
He tasked them to embrace solar technology as a means of providing electricity in abundance in the region, by this they can become change – agents for socio – economic revival of the beleaguered North – East region.