Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has stressed the need for Nigerian graduates to acquire technical, vocational and entrepreneurial skills for self-reliance.
Sule made the call yesterday in Keffi while speaking as a special guest at the inauguration of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) skills acquisition and entrepreneurship development centre, at the Magaji Dan Yamusa NYSC Orientation Camp in Keffi.
He said the inauguration of the skills and technical skills acquisition centre, is in line with the policy thrust of his administration, aimed at empowering youths with skills to make them self-reliant.
The Director-General of the NYSC, Maj. Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, said the inauguration of the North Central Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED), as well as the NYSC bakery, water and garment factories, is in line with his cardinal policy thrust to reinvigorate the NYSC Ventures and SAED programme in order for the NYSC Act more impactful.
The first civilian governor of the state, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, traced the establishment of the permanent NYSC camp in Keffi, to his desire to fulfil the objective of setting up the scheme.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) noted that, with the high turnover of graduates from institutions in the country, no government can give every NYSC member job. He said there a is need for Nigerian graduates to acquire technical and vocational skills for self-sufficiency.