Ikuru Tasks Youths On Self-Employment, Job Creation

Rivers State Deputy Governor, Engr. Tele Ikuru, says Nigeria needs 12 million jobs with a call on the youth to focus on self-empowerment and job creation.

Engr. Ikuru said this yesterday during a Thanksgiving Service to mark the 13th anniversary and dedication of the Grace Cathedral, mission headquarters of the Grace Covenant Ministries in Port Harcourt.

Represented by his wife, Dr Mina Ikuru, the State Deputy Governor raised concern over how to manage Nigeria’s growing youth population, lamenting statistical data that 98.5 million Nigerians are poor, He stressed that “the situation calls for the youth to stand up and do something.”

“You need to find something doing, get busy he said.

Speaking, the Senator representing Rivers East Senatorial District, Senator George Sekibo, thanked God for the life of the presiding Bishop of the church, Rt. Rev. Winston Iwo, attributing his success in life to the efforts of the Bishop. He urged the leadership and members

of the church to regard the successful completion of the mission headquarters as a launchpad to greater success.

Earlier, in his sermon titled “The Joy of Returning to the Lord”, the guest speaker, Reverend Felix Omobude, said God is interested in the return of his children with a new song, asserting that no matter how far or how underestimated an individual is, God can transform and give such a person a song upon return to Him.

Highpoint of the event was the cutting of the anniversary cake by Engr. Ikuru, and other distinguished guests.