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Stakeholder Tasks Rivers Youth On Housing Skills
Rivers youth have been charged to acquire skills that would provide them employment opportunities in the housing industry.
The Director, Legal Department, Rivers State Housing Authority, Mr. Adoga Thomas, gave this charge in a chat with The Tide in Port recently.
Adoga stated that there were “great opportunities” in the housing sector where unemployed youths could be gainfully employed.
He noted that there are many areas in the housing sector where employment could be generated.
According to him, “we have the cement factories, the sand and gravel dumps sites, carpentry, aluminum making, iron works, tiling, painting, a whole lot of things youths can do in the housing sector and flaps never have to beg for anything or even engage in social vices”.
He lamented the continued importation of skilled labour from neighboring African countries in to the housing industry, which he explained was occasioned by the shortage of artisans in the earlier listed fields in the industry.
He used the opportunity to call on operators of craft schools to inject more innovative and modern teaching materials to give counterparts in other African countries.
While thanking God for the youth population in this country, he charged them to shun all social vices and engage their hands and minds in profitable activities.
Tonye Nria-Dappa