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Close To 5 Million Corps Members Trained Under SAED-NYSC
… As Scheme Partner UTIVA Technologies For Empowerment
Joel Ajayi
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has revealed that close to 5 millions Corps Members has been trained in different vocational skills under its Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme since its inception in 2012.
To this end, the Scheme has stated its readiness to partner UTIVA Technologies Ltd in order to empower Corps Members with modern online technological skills that would make them more relevant in the labour market.
In a statement issued by the Scheme Director, Press and Public Relations Adenike Adeyemi (Mrs)
on Friday after Director General’s virtual meeting with the Chief Executive Officer of the UTIVA Technologies Ltd, Mr Tayo Ogunmola.
According to DG, the NYSC Scheme has trained more than Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Corps Members in different vocational trainings under its Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme since its inception in 2012, which has made many of them self employed.
He added that the proposed partnership would further assist Corps Members in the digitalization of their business ideas.
Speaking earlier, Mr Ogunmola said his organization decided to provide technological innovation to the Corps Members through premium technological skills, data science and also prepare them for job prospects in relation to global best practices.
He added the partnership would enable Corps Members to have a three – month virtual internship that would expose them to different projects.
“Youths are leaving universities only to learn that their courses cannot get them jobs in the labour market.”
“We will create virtual internship for three months that would enable Corps Members to work on different projects”, Ogunmola stated.
He added that every small business needs to build technology in order to achieve wider publicity.
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CSO Salutes Trump
A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.
Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.
“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.
“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.
The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.
He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.
According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.
Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.
Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening
About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.
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