Lagos State Governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has urged youths to take full advantage of various ongoing free vocational and entrepreneurship skills development programmes to develop themselves and become relevant in the nation’s economic redevelopment plans and the 21st-Century global digital economy.
He gave the advice at the graduation ceremony for 119 trainees of Igbo Oluwo Vocational Training Centre, Ikorodu.
The governor,who was represented at the event by the Special Adviser on Education, Tokunbo Wahab, noted that youths need to acquire essential skills in order to contribute their quota to the ongoing economic redevelopment plans rather than waiting endlessly for white-collar jobs.
He maintained that the empowerment programmes targeted at youths had the potentials to change their economic fortunes and bring financial independence.
“Fundamentally, our various free vocational and entrepreneurship skills development programmes are aimed at developing the potentials of our youths to make them relevant in the 21st Century global digital economy and make them employers of labour.
“This we believe, as a government, will address the issue of youth restiveness, reduce crimes and other vices capable of undermining development efforts across the country”, Sanwo-Olu stated.
