National Youth Council of Nigeria Lagos State Chapter Ayobo/Ipaja L.C.D.A Local Branch commence its youth empowerment training

National Youth Council of Nigeria Lagos State Chapter Ayobo/Ipaja L.C.D.A Local Branch commence its youth empowerment training designed to make youth self-reliant and cultivate entrepreneurial spirit to generate employment and reduce poverty to its barest minimum in the Area.

The empowerment scheme designed to train youths in catering, makeover & headgear tying, shoemaking and lots more for the period of three weeks, between 6th to 26th of November 2018 at Youth Centres in Ayobo/Ipaja LCDA.

Speaking at the event, the Coordinator of National Youth Council in Ayobo/Ipaja, Comrade Olaifa G.B.O said the prosperity of any society lies in the hands of youths, giving their vibrancy, resourcefulness and energy.

Olaifa said ‘the empowerment’ is one of the stride of National Youth Council of Nigeria Lagos State Chapter Ayobo/Ipaja L.C.D.A  Local Branch to invest in community-based and life enhancement vocational programmes as a tool for solving the escalating problem of youth unemployment in the Locality.

Adetutu Adeyeye Oyedipe Assistant Secretary of Group said in her words, that the goal of this programme is to make youths self-reliant, promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, thereby through them generate employment, reduce poverty and boost economic development. Also, this programme will help reduce crime rates and youth restiveness so that the Ayobo/Ipaja L.C.D.A would spend less on addressing social problems”.

Adetutu, who admitted that challenges are pertinent to such empowerment programmes, called on members of the private sector, Non-Governmental Organizations and corporate bodies to support the group to discover and help youths excel in their areas of interest.

Earlier, the Chairman of Odogwu Foundation, Mr. Anozie Sam Obi said the empowerment was aimed at encouraging youths to be more productive and improve the quality of other people’s lives in the Locality.

He charged the youths to embrace the opportunity offered by the group in the locality to imbibe the spirit of hard work, creativity and self-reliance which are essential ingredients for the personal and social-economic development of any nation.

Anozie assured youths that the Foundation will continue to create conducive environments for youth leadership, participatory platforms, entrepreneurial training and empowerment programmes for them to thrive.

The CEO of Blooming Communications, Mrs. Morola Olujide commended the Group for organizing the youth-focused programmes to enable them acquires skills they need to enhance their status to being employed.