By Gabriel Ameh, The Sight News
No fewer than 114 Senior Citizens in Nigeria participated in the National Senior Citizens Centre Continuing Engagement Opportunity and Entrepreneurship Training of Senior Citizens for Job Creation Partnership and Labour Market Agreement.
This was made known in a press statement released on 3rd July 2024 by Omini Oden Head, Corporate Affairs, Media and Communications NSCC.
According to him, it was an online/virtual capacity engagement training workshop for registered senior citizens under the NSCC Continuing Engagement Bureau Program, CEB.
“The participants who comprised retired professionals, Technocrats and members of cooperative societies were trained virtually on; Continuing Social Engagement, Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Idealization, a Practical Guide to Entrepreneurial Journey, Entrepreneurial Skills and Financial Literacy among other topics”, he said.
He noted that the training which lasted three days empowered the participants 60+ on how to become more productive in their chosen sectors, skill-set and expertise where they have comparative advantage.
He further stated that the NSCC Continuing Engagement Bureau Program launched in 2023 captures and aggregates the skills, talent, experience, interests and resource base of retirees from the formal and informal sectors of the nation’s economy, connecting them to opportunities for their continued meaningful contributions to society, through volunteerism or paid employment.
Additionally he said that the program was facilitated for NSCC by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation, which was held through NSCC’s Learning Management System on the Continuing Engagement Interactive Portal, first of its kind in Nigeria.
