Anambra starts application for skill, entrepreneurial training
Anambra Government says it will open applications for its “One Youth, Two Skills Close the Gap Initiative” for youths between the ages of 18 years and 45 years by February.
Commissioner for Youth Empowerment, Mr Patrick Aghamba, said this while addressing some volunteers of the programme in Awka on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the volunteers, who were no fewer than 100, included liaison officers, desk officers and representatives of all the 21 local government chairmen in the state.
Aghamba said that the target for the first phase of the scheme was 130,000 people, with participants expected from the 179 communities across the state.
He described the ongoing pilot exercise for 5,000 trainees as ‘hugely successful.’
The commissioner called on the volunteers to intensify sensitisation to ensure that the message got to the nooks and crannies of the state and that every eligible youth enrolled for the training.
According to him, the programme is in line with the state government’s agenda to raise 1,000 millionaires every year through marketable skills and entrepreneurship.
He urged youths to take advantage of the opportunity and register for the training through their town union leaderships, churches, local government councils and its partners, including the ministry of agriculture. (NAN)
