By Yusuf Ozi-Usman
President Goodluck Jonathan has stressed the need to properly groom the nation’s young population to enable them face the challenges of a competitive future through self-wealth creation.
“We must prepare for them or we will have a problem,” he told a delegation of the Advisory Board of the Tony Elumelu Foundation who visited him at the State House yesterday.
The President said this young group of which over 70 per cent are below 30 years and 50 per cent are below 19 years, must be given the kind of education and assistance that would make them create wealth for themselves and the nation.
He said that the Federal Government’s commitment to implement the new focus of preparing the youths will also be extended to the Almajiria Islamic system of education by infusing it with creativity.
He commended the Tony Elumelu Foundation for the interest it has shown in providing jobs for the youths and making access to finance easier in the spirit of public/private partnership.
The Chairman of the Foundation and former Managing Director of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony Elumelu, said his organization had seen “a lot of synergy between what President Jonathan stands for and his foundation.”
He said that his foundation is prepared to partner with the Federal Government in the areas of providing jobs through outsourcing, easier access to finance, improve national productivity through competitiveness and encouraging the “spirit of philanthropy through social giving.”
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