The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
has praised Heritage Bank for its commitment to youth empowerment and social responsibilty, especially
in promotion of entrepreneurial skills among youths in the Nigeria.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by the NYSC top management
team to the Heritage Bank headquarters in Lagos, the Scheme’s Director General,
Brigadier –General Johnson Bamidele Olawunmi declared that youth empowerment is essence to the development of any country’s GDP.
According to him, to tackle the rate of unemployment and enhance the economic growth of any country, the youth population segment must be encouraged and supported to develop entrepreneurial skills and self-reliance.
The Heritage Bank boss identified other initiatives by the Bank which would continue to run in tandem with the SAED to include training NYSC staff to impart knowledge and skills to youth corps members such as the Bakery Training offered to the SAED coordinators in the previous batch. He assured that the Bank would always devote adequate human and material resources to initiatives aimed at helping corps members become whatever they aspire to be now and in the future.
source-julia blaise
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