The Chairman, African Community Bridge Foundation, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, has lauded the CBN for tackling unemployment through the establishment of Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDC) across the country.

Nwosu, whose outfit is an implementing agency of the Entrepreneurship Development Scheme, gave the commendation on Tuesday in Makurdi at the inauguration of the North Central Office of the EDC.

The scheme, he said, would provide ‘a non-partisan platform’ to address poverty, social unrest and the spread of diseases, which  he said, was responsible for the underdevelopment of the country.

Nwosu, who pioneered the option A-4 voting pattern in the country under the military administration of former President Ibrahim Babangida, advised Nigerian leaders to be united in their resolve to tackle unemployment.

“Once unemployment is tackled in the country, incidences of social unrest and other vices would be reduced,’’ he said.

He said that the future of the country depended on the establishment of small scale enterprises.

Nwosu appealed to the state governments in the North Central zone to mobilise their youths to participate in poverty reduction initiatives.

“I appeal to the governments of the North Central Zone, NGOs, CBOs and Civil Organisations to sponsor candidates for training at the centre,” he said.

In his address, the Governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Tanko Amakura, commended the CBN for its efforts to address unemployment through the establishment of EDC.

He said that unemployment had worsened poverty level in the Northern parts of the country.

He urged the governments in the North Central zone to take advantage of the EDC to train their unemployed youths.