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Community Holds Economic Summit

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The 2018 edition of Aramoko Socio-Economic Summit, will hold this Saturday, a statement issued in Lagos and signed by the convener of the summit, Mr. Akin Oluwadare Jnr. has stated. The theme of the summit is; ‘Human Empowermen­t as Catalyst for Sustainabl­e Developmen­t.’ According to the statement, the summit, which is in its 3rdedition, was initiated in 2012 to galvanise entreprene­urial spirit among indigenes of the community as well as boosting human capital developmen­t to enhance enduring and sustainabl­e developmen­t. ‘’We tie our objective to the popular belief that human capital developmen­t is the joker for an enduring and sustainabl­e developmen­t that Nigeria needs if truly we are projected to have the third largest population in the world by 2050 after China and India. That Nigeria has infrastruc­tural deficit upon which economic developmen­t can rest is not in doubt, the hunger for an industrial­ised economy as an exit route from poverty is not in contention but any physical developmen­t that ignores the human factor is a quick fix solution to a problem deeply rooted’’ According to Oluwadare, his group decided in the year 2012 to take the bigger picture home and intervened in the area of education and entreprene­urship.The statement further stated that the event will hold at Aramoko Ekiti Civic Center under the chairmansh­ip of a former Head of Service of Ekiti State, Mr. Femi Adewumi, while Professor Ayo Olajuyigbe of Federal University of Technology, Akure, will serve as moderator.

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