The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is the lead Federal Government agency charged with creating decent employment opportunities for the nation’s teeming unemployed persons.

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) was established in November 1986. It began operations fully in January 1987.

Directorate is empowered to operate as an employment creation agency statutorily charged with the following mandate: –

  1. To design and implement programmes to combat mass unemployment
  2. To articulate policies aimed at developing work programmes with labour intensive potentials
  3. To obtain and maintain a data bank on employment and vacancies in the country with a view to acting as a clearing house to link job seekers with vacancies in collaboration with other government agencies and
  4. To implement other policies as may be laid down from time to time by the board established under section 3 of its enabling law.

The Directorate commenced operations in January, 1987 with visible presence in all the States of the federation. To fulfill her statutory mandate, the NDE introduced four (4) major areas of intervention for mass job creation for the unemployed as follows:

  • Vocational Skills Development
  • Entrepreneurship Development
  • Agricultural Skills Training and
  • Public Works Programme

Head Office:
Plot 1529 Nouakchott Street ,
Wuse District, Zone 1,
Abuja- FCT