The West African Youth Peace Mission (WAYPEM) is set to create jobs for over 20 million unemployed women and youths.
President of WAYPEM, Dr Godwill Richman, said the jobs would be created through its $50 billion World Peace Centre, which would comprise a modern specialist university, banking hall, event centre, multipurpose training facilities for women and youths, administrative offices and staff quarters
Richman stated this at the opening ceremony of the 5th World Youth Peace, Security, Economic Development Summit and Award with the theme: ”Youth and peaceful economic development”.
He said the summit and award which also had the launch of $50 billion fundraising programme for the building of World Youth Peace Centre, was aimed at curbing the growing youth unemployment which has led to forced immigration known as Japa in the country, depression, among others.
He said WAYPEM, a non-governmental entity committed to promoting the interests of youth across the globe, would halt the trend to save the youths and the world.
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Richman added that the construction of the World Peace Centre which would take between five and six years to be ready, would commence March next year.
”The centre will cater for about 40,000 jobs within the local, but at the international level, it will create jobs for over 20 million people,” he said.
Earlier, the Minister of state for youth development, Ayodele Olawande, who was represented by his Chief-of-Staff, Mohammed Abdullahi, also announced plans to introduce an internship programme into the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.
Olawande explained that the rationale behind the development was for the enhancement of professional skills of graduates of professional courses to give them an edge in the labour market.
He also announced that in the next couple of weeks, the ministry would be inaugurating the Technical Committee on Youth Development, which would focus on skill development for youths.