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Unemployment: Youth urged to be innovative

Nigerian Youths have been urged to key into entrepreneurship and be open minded to new ideas and innovations to curb perennial problem of unemployment.

An entrepreneur and coordinator of Positively Affecting Lives (PALs), an advocacy agency, Mr. Yinka Odegbami made the call in Ilorin at a conference for youths on finance and health said the programme was aimed at providing them the necessary skills to enable them develop themselves positively.

According to him, entrepreneurship to a large extent, would drastically reduce the high rate of youth unemployment in the country, describing it as an acceptable method in the United States of America to provide jobs.

Mr. Adegbami, the Coordinator of (PALs) said it is high time for the youths to change their mind set towards looking for jobs that are not there, asking them to take windows of opportunities created by entrepreneurship to create their own economy and wealth.

He therefore appealed to government at all levels to revitalize vocational centres and schools to expose the youths and students to skills that would eventually turned them to jobs creators.

He added that, people should desist from looking for government jobs and focus attention on how to create wealth through their skills by tapping untapped resources.

The entrepreneur noted that the participants would be exposed to ways of using social media and affecting strategies through new media to create wealth.