Stakeholders have urged Nigerian youths to focus attention on skills acquisition as major means of wealth creation.
They made the call in Ilorin the state capital during the celebration of World Youth Skills Day organised by the Michael Imoudu Institute For Labour Studies (MINILS)
The Director General of Michael Imoudu Institute For Labour Studies (MINILS), Ilorin, Kwara state North Central Nigeria, Comrade Issa Aremu enjoined the youths in attendance to take advantage of the institute’s Skills Acquisition Centre to train themselves and become self- employed and employers of labour upon graduation.
According to him, the institute has put in place the skills acquisition centre to train youths in various vocations to help Nigeria solve the problems of unemployment.
The Director- General also stressed further that the institute shall make the International Day of Youth a daily affair
Also speaking, the National Directorate of Employment’s Deputy Director in Kwara, Kudabo also urged the youths to take advantage of the agency’s skill acquisition programmes.
He said the youths can get themselves employed through the learning of various arts, including tieying of headgears.
According to the President of Kwara Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KWACCIMA), Fatai Ayodimeji, the theme for this year’s celebration” Transforming Youth Skills For The Future” is apt.
“The nation is in an era where youths because of unemployment or under employment devote a lot of their energies and skills to unproductive and unimaginable negative endeavours, thus it is time to transform these energies and skills to decent work and entrepreneurship.
“We must therefore evolve strategic ways to equip them with the required skills for gainful employment, decent and meaningful vocations and entrepreneurship,” the KWACCIMA president added.
World Youth Skills Day is celebrated annually on July 15, after the United Nations announced its existence in 2014.
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