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August 1, 2019
TheFederal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has describedskills-acquisition as an integral aspect of its youth empowerment andjob-creation initiatives.
Theministry’s Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola, who made this known in Abuja,recommended an inter-agency collaboration for effective empowerment of Nigerianyouths.
Hesaid that the ministry had trained about fifteen-thousand youths in differentskills since 2015, and would continue to do more.
ThePermanent Secretary said that his ministry scaled-up skills acquisition in thearea of fashion designing in 2019, by training eighty-five youths to acquiremore expertise in the field.
Adesolacommended government’s National Social Investment Programme and the SkillsAcquisition programme of the National Youth Service Corps. He describedNigerian youths as intelligent and focused; only requiring support to excel.