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State house report have revealed that President Goodluck
Jonathan , yesterday launched the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy (YES) and an
online portal serving as the common platform for all of Federal Government
intervention youth training programmes.
The portal - Nigeria Youth Entrepreneurship Network
(NYENET.COM) - is government's collaboration with the Founder of Empower
Nigeria, Nicholas Okoye.
During the launch, which held at the Banquet Hall of the
Presidential Villa, Jonathan said the broad based public-private platform was
meant to speed up an already fast moving train of young entrepreneurs through
government interventions that have created 1.4 million additional jobs in the
country.
He said he was proud to head the government that has overall
provided over 5.4 million jobs for Nigerians and pledged to do even more.
Listing the several youth entrepreneurial schemes and funding
grants of his administration, he expressed government's continued willingness
to partner with the private sector to reach the target of creating 2 million
jobs for Nigerians annually through diversification of the nation's economy.
He disclosed that the first batch of about 2,000
beneficiaries of one of the schemes have already created additional 22 jobs
each.
The President said he was glad to partner with Okoye in
providing "this one-stop portal that will enhance government's ability to
reach out to young."
He further pointed out that the new online portal would give
young budding entrepreneurs opportunities for both training and funding for
entrepreneurial ideas.
Jonathan offered himself as a mentor to the young
entrepreneurs by signing into the 'Coalition of Super Mentors', which is part
of the YES, saying that he would also encourage other big and prominent
Nigerian entrepreneurs to do so too.
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