Anambra state government has asked youths in the state to endeavour to learn a skill or two under the numerous ongoing skill acquisition training schemes of the Professor Chukwuma Soludo led administration.
Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim made the call in Awka during the opening ceremony of Code Anambra, a four month skill acquisition training for youths on digital skills in the state.
Ibezim who explained that the present administration is committed to ending youth restiveness and unemployment through provision of good opportunities including through training schemes and empowerments.
He urged the beneficiaries of the ongoing CODE Anambra skill acquisition training to value the opportunity given to them by the state government for their own good and that of their families.
Speaking, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Innovation and Business Incubation, Mrs Chinwe Okoli who disclosed that two thousand participants out of total ten thousand persons that applied for the programme were selected for the training encouraged the beneficiaries to utilize the opportunity by giving themselves to learning throughout the four months training, in order to be self reliant and employers of labour on graduation.
She noted that the idea of the programme is to get the youths off the street and make them carter for themselves and families independently.
