Assessing the Impact of Skills Acquisition Programmes of National Directorate of Employment in Curbing Unemployment in Taraba State

Abstract

Unemployment has become a serious issue affecting development in Nigeria. A large number of educated Nigerians especially youths do not have access to job opportunities. It is on this basis that the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) was established with the mandate to articulate programmes aimed at curbing unemployment in the country; in the light of the foregoing, this study seeks to examine the impact of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) programmes in curbing unemployment in Taraba State. Primary and secondary sources of information from government documents, pamphlets, gazettes, and published journals were used. The study purposively sampled 380 respondents from the target population using Krejcie and Morgan sample size determinant table. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested using Regression at 0.05 level of significance while data were analyzed using Standard deviation and cluster mean. The result of hypothesis one reveals that, there is a significant effect of skills acquisition programmes of (NDE) in curbing unemployment in Taraba State.Regression was used to test the hypothesis at 5 % level of significance and the p-value (0.000) was lower than the significance level. This can be statistically given as P-value 0.000<0.05. Result of hypothesis testing also showed significant effect of (NDE) skills acquisition programmes in curbing unemployment in Taraba State. The study, therefore, concluded that Skills acquisition Programmes of (NDE) has helped many youths to acquire needed skills in Taraba State.