PFN set to empower Nigerian youth on skills acquisition

Concerned by the high rate of unemployment among the youth in the country, the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Francis Wale Oke, recently announced plans by the Fellowship to evolve a skill acquisitions mechanism that will create wealth and employment opportunities for Christian youth across Nigeria.

Oke made the announcement during a 3-day PFN National Leaders’ Retreat, themed ‘Gideon’s Army’ which held at the International Skills Acquisition Center (ISAC), owned by CSS Integrated Farms, Gora, Nasarawa State.

The announcement came on the heels of assurance given by John Kennedy Okpara, the chairman of the Centre, who noted that the nation was blessed with human and material resources if properly harnessed.

While addressing the participants, Okpara expressed the willingness of his organisation to partner with PFN in training members in agriculture related areas so as to help create more wealth in Christendom and cushion the effect of economic hardship.

To this effect, the PFN has concluded plans to sponsor about 200 Christian youth of Pentecostal denominations for the training and skills acquisition at ISAC.

Oke announced further that the 36 states’ chapters of the Fellowship, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, should forward at least, five names each to the PFN Secretariat for training at the CSS Integrated Farms.

The PFN president said the body was determined to buoy up the country’s gliding economy, through the creation of wealth and employment opportunities for its teeming youth. He disclosed to participants at the Retreat, the 10- point agenda of his leadership, while assuring members that it would be beneficial to the body of Christ and the nation as a whole. “... the Lord has chosen us to lead the PFN at such a time as this when our nation is in dire need of divine intervention,” Oke said.