The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board is collaborating with a gender advocacy group, StandUp for Women Society , to bring succour to teenage mothers in Bayelsa.
Timbiri Augustine, deputy manager, Capacity Building, NCDMB, said the teenagers, selected from rural communities within Yenagoa Local Government Area, would undergo training in fashion design, catering, facial make-up, and hairdressing for three months at the Bayelsa Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Yenagoa.
Mr Augustine, who commended the stakeholders for initiating the training, stressed its importance to the development of young women, adding that this was the first time the category of persons would be captured by the board for skills acquisition training. The Rector, Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, Prof. Apuega Arikawie, commended the NCDMB for utilising the facilities offered by the Institute for its different trainings and financing different programmes in the Niger Delta and country at large.
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