By Olanrewaju Ajao President Goodluck Jonathan has boasted that his administration is the first to create 5,400 direct jobs in the country’s history.
President Jonathan said this today while launching the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy (YES) and an online portal meant to serve as the common platform for all of federal government’s youth training entrepreneurship interventions.
The portal – Nigeria Youth Entrepreneurship Network (NYENET.COM) – was launched in collaboration with the Founder of Empower Nigeria, Nicholas Okoye at the State House Banquet Hall.
“Today I am proud to say that this will be the first government in the history of Nigeria that will directly create 5, 400 young entrepreneurs through the YouWin program,” the President said.
President Jonathan said the platform is 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 expressed government’s determination to partner with the private sector to reach the target of creating two million jobs for Nigerians every year 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.
The President 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.
