Abuja — The increasing rate of unemployment and shortage of viable opportunities to assimilate graduates and skillful youths into gainful activities in the country has led a business solutions provider, Stratech Group, to proffer functional recipe to minimise these unwholesome societal developments that has bedeviled the growth of Nigerian youth.

The group, which held its third free youth empowerment forum at the National Women Development Centre in Abuja recently to mark its commitment to the development of Nigerian youth for sustainable national development, explained that the skills acquisition workshop aims to take jobless youth off the streets.

It was a three-day free skills acquisition seminar that dwelt on contemporary business ideas and practices that could proffer sustainable means of livelihood to the enterprising youths present, business openings in online currency trade (Forex), online oil and gas trading, website design and hosting, bulk SMS retailing, recharge card printing and distributions as well as, windmill and solar power system, mobile fish farming, and other viable information technology related entrepreneurial opportunities were parts of the sessions.

Former Senate President, Senator Ahmed Ebute, who was the chairman of the occasion, decried the over dependence of the society on the goodwill of government. He stated that it is obvious that the young generation of Nigerians have become extremely dependent on ready-made jobs that seem unavailable.

Charging the participants to inculcate the required entrepreneurial spirit to evolve developmental ideas that will drive the country forward, Ebute said, "Government cannot provide jobs for every graduate, we have to find alternatives to address this rising societal challenge and one of these alternatives can be found in these sessions that you are about to go into. I urge you to imbibe the right attitudes to learn all that you need to grow".

The Chief Executive Officer of Stratech Group, Moses Obisesan, explained that the seminar is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the group and that it behoves good spirited individuals and organisations to initiate programmes to empower the youth for contribution to national development.