By Sheila Offiong/Magdalene Ukuedojor
The National Youth Job Fair 2.0 promises to promote skills, harness talents and insights to reduce unemployment in the country.
Mrs Habibah Abdullahi, one of the organisers, said this while urging National Youth Service Corps members, skills-driven and unemployed youths to hone skills, seek mentorship and resources through the fair.
“The Youth Job Fair will be an avenue where we create opportunities in jobs, ideas and perfect it into something.
“We don’t want to discard any idea, no matter how small it is; be it a bricklayer, a tailor, a shoemaker.
“It’s not about a degree holder because you realise that in other countries, they don’t even go to school as much as the African society hinges on; they utilise their skills.
“So, the Youth Job Fair is going to be an enabling environment for you to realise yourself; your network, you meet people from diverse backgrounds of different cultures and colour.
“People who are passionate about the things that you are passionate about; people who are poised and determined to make great impact to impact the society with what they have so far.
“You utilise talent, professions, and then you have a more productive and greater economy.”
Abdullahi said the fair, which would hold at the Nigerian National Merit Award Centre (Merit House) Maitama, Abuja on Thursday, Oct. 30, would also have the National Directorate of Employment, mentors and financiers in attendance.
It is put together by Kfrativity Foundation and Great Minds Children and Youth Foundation as their citizens’ responsibility to enhance the efforts of government in employment.
The maiden edition, National Youth Job Fair 1.0, was organised in 2024.
She urged captains of industry, employers and well-meaning Nigerians to sieve through the talents and inputs from youths to offer notable employments to deserving youths.
Abdullahi added that business documentations and registration would be an added advantage for those seeking finances to expand their skills.
At the end of the fair, a database would be created to monitor the progress of skill growth and relationship of the job seekers with their employers.
She, therefore, urged youths to display exemplary conduct and good work ethic to advance the cause of the fair and pave the way for more youths in gainful employment. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
