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An Entrepreneur, Mr Oseghale Joe-Wealth, has stressed the need for Nigerian youths to invest in themselves and embrace entrepreneurship skills in order to become relevant and be self-reliant.
Joe-Wealth said in Lokoja on Sunday, that the youth should as a matter of urgency wake up from their ‘slumber’, and stop waiting for a white collar job expecting government to do everything for them.
Joe-Wealth, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Anoldflight Konsult, said Nigerians should be creative, innovative and learn skills that would make them employers of labour and be self-reliant.
He added that people should use every opportunity they have to improve their skills, stressing that at the point of relevance, most of their needs would be met along the line.
The expert defined skill as the ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carry out complex activities or job functions involving ideas things or peoples.
He explained further that “skill is not an idea but a detailed knowledge with an excellent ability to carry out a task which could be cognitive, technical or interpersonal skill.
“A skilless society is a society in distress, and a distressed society cannot meet up to her obligations. Your worth and relevance in life is a function of how skillful you are.
“We are not born with skills; we came completely empty except with potentials which without skills equal wasted resources and a life of mediocrity.
“Therefore, if the youth must get something they must put in all the needed efforts to have it, because it will never come on them. Manpower is not readily available to get things done professionally,” he advised.
The entrepreneur named the skills that every should learn to include: paying bills, budgeting, scheduling, meal planning, cooking, laundry, computer, home care, vocation, among others.
Mr Joe-Wealth had on Saturday at Federal University Lokoja, delivered a lecture on skills acquisition, at the International Youth Empowerment Summit (IYES) 2017, with the theme: “My Decision My Future”.
Credits: Stephen Adeleye | NAN
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