4,900 youth trained on entrepreneurship

The Centre for Human Resource Development and Empowerment Initiative, Kaduna said it has trained over 4,900 youth on entrepreneurship and computer skills to tackle youth restiveness and unemployment.

The centre which was established in 2010 is aimed at guiding future generations from the shackles of examination malpractice, cultism, drug abuse and other menace.

The founder, Dr. Muhammad Ali at the 16th graduation ceremony where 253 youth graduated after a six-months Basic Computer Science course under the Centre for Entrepreneurship studies and Lifelong Learning National Open University of Nigerian (NOUN), said 12 female students were sponsored to study medicine at the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU).

Four others are studying Physiotherapy in the University of Lahore in Pakistan, he said, while commending NOUN for the affiliation.

“There is no doubt that the Centre has come a long way judging by the calibre of students we have trained these past years,” he said.

The governor of Kogi state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello represented by his Commissioner of Education, Jacob Sunday, charged the graduating students to use what they have acquired to empower themselves and others. and encouraged wealthy Nigerians to use their wealth to train people instead of using it to cause ills in the society.