By Correspondent in Lokoja.
A Director in the Kogi State Ministry of Agriculture, Comrade Gabriel Akor,has advised c
Students of post primary institutions to embrace artisan schemes to reduce unemployment in the country.
Comrade Akor gave the advice at the weekend during the end of the year get-together of the Ome Progressive Brothers in Lokoja.
He pointed out that the era where graduates scout round for white-coller jobs was over, stressing that early counseling of students, especially those at tertiary institutions,towards their future endeavours should be paramount.
“Tutoring students to engage themselves in different learning fields of their choices, after school hours, is the solution to unemployment that many graduates are facing in the society today,” he stressed.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Ome Progressive Brothers, Engr. Joseph Omejo, who was represented by his Vice, Mr. Boniface Omakoji, called for the peaceful coexistence among the people to enable development triumph in their community.
He pointed out that it was through unionism that people could speak in one voice, adding that efforts must be intensified to give the union the desired financial support to justify its progressive status.
The Chairman of Egume Ome Descendants Union, (EODU) Lokoja branch, Comrade Noah Ocheni (JP), enjoined other related clubs from Egume to rally round the Umbrella body of the Union (EODU) to enable it achieve its set objectives.
Ocheni, therefore, urged members of the union to embark on small scale businesses to enable them and their families strive in the face of the dwindling economy in Nigeria.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
