‘We’re Preparing Rivers Youth For Skills, Vocational Jobs’

Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike has said that his administration would give special skills and training to youths and job seekers that will make them employable.
Wike stated this while declaring open the maiden edition of the “Employers’ Roundtable” Organized by the Ministry of Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Represented by the Administrator, Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority, Ambassador Desmond Akawor, the governor expressed worry that most youths were not employable because they do not have skills.
He said, “Our educational foundation was rightly set by our colonial maters when they created the Yaba College of Technology and Kaduna Polytechnic and so on. But suddenly many wanted to do humanities because we wanted to read law so that we can handle your land cases. Now we have found ourselves where we are today.
“To do tiling jobs, you have to get those boys from Cotonou. Little carpentry job you have to get people from other West African countries. So we need to go back to skills.
“So, this is the time for us to get our people ready and get them trained with skilled so that they will be ready for the industries.
Akawor said the state government has already created a platform, ‘ the Zenith ICT Centre, saying “It is a one stop shop just opposite the Pleasure Park.

By: Dennis Naku.