Kebbi to sponsor 125 youths for skill acquisition training in UK

The Kebbi Government has earmarked N400 million for skills acquisition training of 125 students at the Bradford University in the United Kingdom.

The Executive Secretary of the State Scholarship Board, Alhaji Sahabi Birnin-Yauri, said in Birnin Kebbi on Friday that the training was for six months.

He added that the training was part of government's efforts to reduce unemployment in the state.

“Selected participants would be trained on Information Communication Technology (ICT), meteorology, mechanical and electrical engineering and wood works,' he said.

He said that more students would be sponsored to study medicine in foreign universities to raise the number of medical doctors in state hospitals for improved health services.

“The aim is to end dearth of doctors and other professionals in our hospitals by 2015''.