NO fewer than 5,000 youths of Kogi State are to benefit from the youth development and skill acquisition programmes of the state through the Nigerian-Korean Friendship Institute for Vocational and Advanced Technology.
Apart from this, the youth will also benefit from the Dangote/Kogi State Skills Development Centre located in Lokoja, the state capital.
The state youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Stephen Onoji, disclosed this at Idah, headquarters of Idah Local Government Area of the state, during a programme aimed at enlisting support for the second term ambition of the state governor, Captain Idris Wada.
Speaking at the event held in conjunction with the Coalition of Kogi Youth Activists of Truth, he said the two vocational centres were parts of the efforts of the state government at empowering the youth of the state.
According to him, the programme was organised in order to sensitise the youth of the state on the achievements of the governor and the opportunities available to them through the centres.
He said the present administration in the state was interested in empowering the youth with various vocations that could also make them employers of labour instead of giving them peanuts.
He said the state government was able to lobby the Korean government to establish the centre, which would train the youth in the areas of welding/fabrication, electrical engineering, information and communication technology and world-class digital automobile engineering.
He stated that the move was to ensure that the youth of the state took full advantage of the Obajana cement and the about to be completed Kogi cement company in Itobe.
Onoji said the youth stood a better chance of empowering themselves and attaining economic independence if they supported Wada for another term in office.
