Kogi to Focus on Youth Empowerment Programmes

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The present administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello has restated its commitment towards ensuring that youths in the state are carried along in all its programmes and policies.

This assurance was given last week by the special Adviser to the governor on youths; sports and students affairs, Comrade Arome Adoji, while speaking on behalf of the present administration in the state during an award presentation ceremony by the Education Management students Association of the University of Ibadan, F.C.E Okene undergraduate programme.

Speaking, comrade Arome who said “the government of Alhaji Yahaya Bello is a government of the youths” disclosed that within the short time this administration came on board, it has granted scholarship to 500 Kogi State students schooling in Kwara State.

He also disclosed that the present administration is presently in discussion with the central bank of Nigeria for a loan facility that would be channelled to empower about 5,000 youths of the state.

The special Adviser to the governor who said that the present administration in the state plan to build youths capacity through skill acquisition, urge them to give their full support to the administration.

Also speaking, the provost of the federal college of Education Okene, Assoc. Professor Iyela Ajayi congratulated the governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello on his election/ assumption of office and assured him of the support of the FCE Okene.

He seized the opportunity to appeal to the governor to come to the aid of the institution to enable the institution solve some of its teething problems.

While expressing his gratitude for the award conferred on him by the Education Management students Association of the college, the provost, who promised not to let the students down, described the award as a call to greater service.

He assured the students that the college’s management under him would continue to strive to meet their needs, while urging them to be of good conduct at all times.

Earlier in his speech, the president of Education Management Students Association, Comrade Ishaku Jalaludeen, said the award is in appreciation of the efforts of leaders of the college’s host community that contributed to the promotion and success of the college’s undergraduate programme. He commended the efforts of the state governor in giving hope to the youths of the state.

Other beneficiaries of the leadership award are Dr. Godwin Oyibo, Engr. Abubakar S.Ohere, Dr. Godwin Ogli, Dr. H. Suleiman, Mrs. Cecilia Omeiza and HRM, Ohinoyi of Ebira, Dr. Ado Ibrahim.

Credit: The Graphic


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