The Federal Government has commenced screening of Nigerian youths for entrepreneurship training with the launch at the weekend of the Youths Entrepreneurship Strategy in Oil and Gas Industry.

Besides, part of the #220 billion set aside for Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSME) through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would be utilized to fund the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy.

It will be recalled that the Chattered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Anabel Leadership Academy to mobilize 150,000 youths annually for the institute’s Professional Diploma in Securities and Investment.

Okoye had earlier stated that the beneficiaries of the institute’s training would be integrated into the Youths Entrepreneurship Strategy. Will

Addressing the youths at the launch organized by Anabel Leadership Academy in Abuja at the weekend, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga said the Federal Government was fully determined to empower the youths as the power of the youth in the economic development cannot be underrated

Aganga explained that Nigerian youths form a very substantial segment of the population; hence they must be empowered in order to stem the tide of unemployment, poverty, hunger and squalor. He noted that the federal government had created a window of opportunities through legislation and the youths should take advantage of these opportunities.

“Apart from empowerment through entrepreneurship training and certification, you must take advantage of the power reform and industrialization. These are windows of opportunities.

The greatest asset you have now is your brain and that is where the future is, he said. According to him, the power of the youth in economic development is very important today so any country that does not tap the potential of the youths cannot compete globally. ‘It is important we re-invent ourselves and position our economy for industrialization and entrepreneurship’, he said.

Anabel Leadership Academy’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nicholas Okoye explained that as a response to the federal government’s efforts at creating a window of opportunities for the youths to become employers of labor, there must be network of young Nigerians that would take over. Okoye, the conveyer of the launch explained that the empowerment programme would be executed through the Nigerian content fund set aside to build capacity.

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