BUSINESS & ECONOMY
NDDC Boss, Ogbuku, Tasks Youths To Embrace Entrepreneurship
Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has charged youths of the Niger Delta region, to embrace entrepreneurship as a springboard for sustainable development.
Ogbuku, who made the call in his keynote address at the Ogbia Youth Summit in Ogbia, Bayelsa State, noted that for any community to achieve sustainable development and peace, the youths must be meaningfully engaged.
The NDDC boss urged the youths to key into the Commission’s Holistic Opportunity Projects of Engagement (HOPE), meant to identify the interests of the youths for skills training. He also advised them to eschew cultism, drug abuse, thuggery and other social vices.
He applauded their vision to set up a youth hub and pledged to support the initiative, noting that collaboration was necessary for development efforts to flourish.
Ogbuku said: “As Ogbia people, we should jettison individual interest for the collective interest of the people. This is the example we should learn from our Leader, Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, who declared that his political ambition was not worth the blood of any Nigerian; that is the Ogbia spirit.”
“What was handed to us by our founding fathers, is the identity of an Ogbia man. Whatever achievement we must have accomplished today, is the result of the legacies established by the late Melford Okilo and other notable leaders. These legacies made us strive for greatness.”
“It will be a bigger challenge for me if I can’t bring peace and development to the Ogbia people. If we collaborate, we can partner and share ideas, we will succeed.”
In his welcome address, the President of Ogbia Youths, Ambassador Johnny Jonathan, said they put up the programme to chart a new course in human capacity development among the youths.
Jonathan, who commended the NDDC Chief Executive Officer for supporting youth programmes, stressed the need to educate young people on the importance of peace as a catalyst for economic and infrastructural development.
The youth President expressed confidence that the gains of the youth hub would be huge shortly.
The former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan who represented former President Goodluck Jonathan, as the Special Guest of honour, told the youths to avoid drug abuse because of its after-effects.
Dame Jonathan insisted that peace and unity were needed to ensure sustainable development in the Ogbia community.
She enjoined the youths to liaise with the leaders in a bid to bring more development to the community.
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