YABATECH Rector Tasks Youths on Skills Devt

Funmi Ogundare

The Rector, Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Mr. Obafemi Omokungbe has stressed the need for youths in the community to expand their skills by taking up innovative entrepreneurship activities, solve problems and raise the bar in their various quests to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the future.

Omokungbe who made this call, recently, during the United Nations International Youths Day with theme, ’Get Skilled, Go Green; Go Green, Get Skilled’, said the programme was designed to increase youths’ awareness about global trends and dimensions.

“It is to challenge to our youths to develop skills that will provide green and innovative solutions for today and tomorrow’s problems. It is important to get the youths prepared and involved in the things that would shape their lives and the society in the days to come, because tomorrow belongs to them.”

He said the theme of the programme aligns with the worldwide need for sustain- ability.

At the programme, the Director of Flexible Skills Development (FSD), Dr. Ibrahim Adedotun Abdul introduced four flexible short courses to empower the public on how to diversify income and to make life easier.

In another development, the Rector, Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech), Mr. Obafemi Omokungbe has appealed to the entire college community to shun improper disposal of plastic and waste saying that this constitute a harmful effect to the environment.

Omokungbe made the appealed during the World Environmental Day with the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, said “where there are too much plastic in the ocean, you will have much plastic than the fishes and that could affect our lives negatively.”

He noted that the purpose of World Environmental Day is to create awareness and consciousness of the problem that plastic creates, while promising the college’s readiness to key into the awareness and ensure that people refuse it.