Some Fifty members of the national youths service corps currently serving in Abuja have been trained on various skills to enable them properly blend into the labour market and harness their potential and contribute to national development.
Authorities of the Abuja Enterprise Agency said during the closing of the training workshop for the first batch of 2024 youth entrepreneurship programme in Abuja that, the effort is to meet the agency’s mandate of empowering Corps Members and unemployed youths across the territory.
Youth unemployment remains one of the major socioeconomic challenges facing Nigeria despite numerous government intervention programmes and policies such as N-Power, SMEDAN, Abuja Enterprise Agency, SURE-P, Economic Recovery and Growth Plan among others.
Authorities of the Abuja Enterprise Agency told journalists that it is in efforts to meet the agency’s mandate that over 20 thousand Corps Members and unemployed youths have been trained on various skills since its establishment in 2006.
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Some of the beneficiaries of the 2024 first batch of the
entrepreneurship development Programme shared their views on the training workshop.
Some of the participants who distinguished themselves in their various skills were recognized and rewarded.
The agency and other sponsors of the programme are to provide the 50 beneficiaries of the training with start-up capital to enable them establish themselves and become employers of labour.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
