SMEDAN Partners Akwa Ibom On Wealth Creation

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), has entered into partnership with the Akwa Ibom Government to organise capacity building programme for youths in the state.

A statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, Assistant Chief Information Officer of the Agency, said that the programme would build the capacity of the youths for wealth creation and sustainable development.

It added that the state government was also working with the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa, the National Economic Reconstruction Fund, the Industrial Training Fund and the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria.

The statement said that the programme, with the theme “Youth Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Skills Development, Wealth Creation and Sustainable Economic Development”, would hold in Uyo from June 17 to June 21.

It would harness and harvest strategic and corporate synergies that would improve youth capacity on wealth creation, thereby reducing unemployment and youth restiveness, it added.

The statement noted that vocational training had over the years proven to be an effective tool for youth productivity.

It stressed the need for governments to promote youth empowerment programmes, through entrepreneurship skill to foster sustainable development in the country.