From Jimoh Ahmed, Ikare Akoko

Nigerian youths have been charged to learn skills that will put them in the limelight as entrepreneurs and wealth creators.
The Ondo State Coordinator of National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani stated this at the flagging off of Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme for the 2021 Batch ‘C’ (Stream II) service year.
Mrs Ani who said she was not playing down the worth of their academic certificates, said acquisition of skills will definitely put them on the global stage.
“I am not saying your academic qualifications cannot earn you a decent job or put food on your tables but the economy favours acquisition of skills which will definitely put you on global stage as entrepreneurs that people will be looking forward to meet”.
She declared that potentials of the graduate youths will pave ways for them.
The State Coordinator who was represented by the Director, SAED, Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, Mr. Hilary Nasamu, said that prospective corps members needed to deploy their ingenuity to become wealth creators.
She hinted that the NYSC Management introduced SAED programme almost ten years ago to bridge the gap created by unemployment in the ecosystem.
“We need to appreciate the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for coming up with this intervention to solve the problem of unemployment which has become a dark spot in our developmental strides. Since the establishment of the programme successive corps members have been blazing the trails in the business environment”.
Ani encouraged prospective corps members to enhance the various academic certificates they possessed by embracing one of the twelve skills which NYSC has invited well grounded professionals and facilitators to expose them to, in a 10-day intensive in-camp training.
Speaking earlier in her opening remarks, the Assistant Director/Head, SAED, Mrs. Itohan Ehimwenma, appealed to prospective corps members to develop positive attitude towards the programme.
Mrs. Ehimwenma lauded the unflinching support of Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani as well as the commitment and sacrifices of the facilitators towards the programme.
The SAED Monitoring Officer from NYSC Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, Mr. Timothy Bulus, charged prospective corps members to set their priorities right and be focused throughout the period of the training.
Bulus said that the corps members should justify the huge investment the Federal Government through the NYSC has committed into the programme and be determined to actively participate in the ten days intensive in-camp training, which he believed will be a launch pad for them to be celebrated in the foreseeable future.