FG CREATES 15,000 NEW JOBS IN ONE YEAR

The Youth With Innovation In Nigeria, (YouWin) programme has already created 15,000 new jobs in the economy barely one year of its takeoff.
The programme which was officially launched in April, last year by the Federal Government is aimed at assisting Nigerian youths or graduates between the ages of 18 and 45 with entreprenural skills to set up small and medium and scale businesses (SMEs) that could transform the nation’s economy.

Speaking at the ‘Thank-you’ courtesy visit to the Co-ordinating Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Abuja, yesterday, the leader of the YouWin team, Mr Tunji Suleiman said that YouWin Awardees remain grateful to the Federal Government for giving them a chance to prove their potentialities.
“On behalf of my colleagues, I say thank you to President Goodluck Jonathan, the Federal Executive Council, and especially Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for giving us this opportunity, though we are not connected in any form to the powers that be”. He promised that the awardees would be ready to create not only jobes but wealth for the nation. In her remarks, Okonjo-Iweala described the 15,000 new jobs created by YouWin as exciting adding that the target for the programme is 80,000 new jobs in future.
The unique thing about YouWin is that you have got peer to peer relationships, you’ve got mentoring and you’ve got training on how to manage success. You are being successful and managing success is as important as trying to get out of failure.
We will be with you because we want to monitor and continue to monitor how many jobs you have created. So far the first survey shows that from the first batch of 1200 you have created 15,000 jobs. And you know our target for this programme is 80,000 to 110,000 jobs.
This is your first survey, In your second survey, we want you to double that,” she said. Following the success of the programme, she said, Federal Government is thinking of inculcating the programme in future budgets. “If we can do this, it means we can give more and more Nigerians a chance in future budgets.”

Source: SUN