In commemoration of the 2024 World Youth Skills Day, the ondo state government on Monday launched the 'One Youth One Skill' project.
Performing the symbolic inauguration of the project at the Adegbemile Cultural Center in Akure, the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, said the project is an innovative approach to getting young people to acquire skills needed to be self-reliant and globally competitive.
Represented by his deputy, Olayide Adelami, the governor disclosed that the administration has concluded plans to ensure the youths are equipped with different skills.
His words: "Our administration has concluded arrangements to explore opportunities and partner with the private sector and other Development Partners to build the capacity of our teeming unemployed youth for sustainable job creation
"We are putting machinery in place to build two new model technical schools and upgrade the existing ones in the state to promote the acquisition of technical skills among our youths" the governor affirmed.
Earlier in his remarks, the state Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Saka Yusuf Ogunleye, said the Aiyedatiwa government is living up to the expectations of young people in the state.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Empowerment and Job Creation, Orioye Gbayisemore, said the mandate of his office is to catalyze the empowerment of youths through multiple skills acquisition programs.
According to him, "From all indications, Mr Governor has shown sufficient readiness to transform our youths to dependable drivers of peace and development as captured in this year’s theme of the World Youth Skills Day, which is Youth Skills for Peace and Development."
Gbayisemore further revealed that the governor has re-equipped some of the skills acquisition centres in the state to provide conducive grounds for upskilling.
Guest speaker at the event, Abiola Obanoyen, tasked entrepreneurs in the state to organize themselves into clusters and build reliable networks of talents. He said this will better position them for funding from both the private and public sectors.
