UNEMPLOYMENT: LAGOS GOVT EMBARKS ON MASSIVE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVES
Worried by the growing rate of unemployment among youths, especially graduates of various institutions in the country, the Lagos State Government has commenced youth empowerment programmes targeted at final year students and those in penultimate classes in all higher institutions in the State.
Speaking on the initiative, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Barrister Tokunbo Wahab, said 8,000 students drawn from all the higher institutions in the State are undergoing entrepreneurship and employability skills training sponsored by the State Government, under its Job Initiative Lagos (JIL) project.
He said the programme was designed to teach participants methods of running a new business with an in-depth knowledge of development strategies that will help them stabilise in globally competitive markets.
