By Lukman Olabiyi
Lagos State Government has declared its intention to train 10,000 women on wealth creation and capacity building and development in the next 24 months. This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Akinyemi Ajigbotafe at a press conference to intimate the general public on capacity building and human capital development training programme for youth on skills and knowledge necessary for employability and entrepreneurship growth.
The training scheduled to kick-off in the first quarter of this year, is a collaboration between Lagos State Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment and the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University.
Ajigbotafe said that 10,000 women would be trained within the next 24 months using a combination of online partner-sponsored and physical community learning under the programme. He stated that the application for the training programme would be open to all youth in the 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Areas in the state, stressing that a seed capital of N200, 000 would be given to the best 80 participants that successfully complete the programme. While enunciating the importance of collaboration, Ajigbotafe said that to actualize the mandate of the ministry in the areas of executing policies on Wealth Creation & Employment-related issues in the state, the ministry needs to broaden its partnership drive and expand its collaboration with relevant stakeholders. He added that the present economic situation in Nigeria and across the globe, also makes it obvious that the government can no longer work in isolation; hence, the need to collaborate with the organized private sector to actualize her dream of Wealth Creation and Employment for the teeming Youth in Lagos State.
“This informed the Partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan–Atlantic University on Capacity Building and Human Capital Development for Youth on skills and knowledge necessary for Employability and Entrepreneurship growth for the development of the State through the Transformation of Nigerian Youths program powered by the MasterCard foundation,” the Commissioner added.