Don’t wait for white collar jobs – Gov Umo Eno to NYSC members

Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has charged members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, posted to the authorities to to instrumentality up entrepreneurship skills alternatively than hoping for achromatic collar jobs aft completing the mandatory 1 twelvemonth scheme.

Eno said entrepreneurial skills would presumption graduates to beryllium financially autarkic and marque them employers of labour.

He spoke on Tuesday while declaring unfastened the 2026 NYSC Corps Employers’ Workshop successful Uyo, themed ‘Fine-Tuning Stakeholders’ Collaboration to Enhance Corps Members’ Welfare Experience’. He was represented by the Commissioner for Youth Development, Dr Ekerette Ekanem.

The politician encouraged corps members to instrumentality vantage of the NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme, noting that Nigeria’s increasing colonisation and constricted resources marque self-employment progressively important.

“Today, being an leader of labour, an entrepreneur pays amended than a achromatic collar job. Corps members indispensable thrive to go employers of labour alternatively than occupation seekers.

“We are successful a nine wherever the colonisation keeps expanding portion we person constricted resources, truthful I powerfully commend the SAED strategy of the NYSC which is aimed astatine making our young radical go employers and autarkic alternatively than occupation seekers,” En...