‎Women group lauds Buhari’s administration on youth empowerment

A Bauchi based Non-Governmental Organisation ‘Change Women Association’ (CHAWA), has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration for its efforts at reducing the unemployment rate in the country.

The commendation was made Wednesday in Bauchi by the President of the NGO, Mrs Maryam Alexander in an interaction with newsmen during which she applauded the Federal Government for its commitment to creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youths.

While making reference to the Federal Government’s initiative of the Youth Empowerment Programmes like N-power she said that, “The scheme was borne out of the desire to ensure that unemployed youth and women benefited in the government empowerment programme and were liberated from poverty.”

According to her, the Federal Government was committed to tackling youth unemployment in Nigeria through the introduction of various initiatives which the youths can utilise to become gainfully employed as well as become employers of labour.

Maryam Alexander listed such initiatives to include N-Power, the Bank of Industry Youth Entrepreneurship Support, (YES) and the Bank of Agriculture and Central Bank of Nigeria support schemes.

“The private sector creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship which requires persons equipped with the requisite skills ready for mobilization through adequate support to enable youth to create employment for themselves. Through that also for others or go into skill-based jobs in the private sector,” Mrs Alexander said.

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She said the Federal Government was also committed to giving special consideration to education, particularly tertiary education within the constraints of available financial resources and the competing needs of other sectors of the economy.

The CHAWA President also said that the Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has provided acquisition empowerment programme for over 1,000 women and youth across each of the 36 states of the country.

“Through her pet project, `Future Assured Programme’ which was a social intervention aimed at ameliorating poverty among youths and women,” she said.

She said that series of social programmes initiated by the present administration were aimed at transforming the lives of youth and womenfolk in particular, who formed a great chunk of the unemployed in the country,” Maryam Alexander said.