Consumers Protection Council (CPC) Director-General Mr Babatunde Irukera has stressed the need to train youths in specialised skills.
He said this would accelerate job creation and reduce skills gap through the mobilisation of investments between the public and private sectors.
Speaking during the maiden edition of the Progressive Minds Forum (PMF) in Lagos, he advised youths to refrain from cyber crimes and deploy their creative energy to productive ventures.
“Never in our history were fraud or any form of criminal activity celebrated as they are being daily celebrated today.
“It is no longer a secret that the preponderance of Nigerian youths think that the quickest and easiest route to wealth is the infamous ‘yahoo yahoo’,” Irukera added.
The CPC chief urged the youth to explore their talents in the best possible ways they could rather than blaming all the problems on the environment.
He said the forum, comprising a group of professionals, discovered that the myriad challenges facing the country began with negative mindsets that people had from young age.
He called on youths to develop their talents for the benefit of the society positively.
He said a country’s approach to innovations and creativity would determine how far it could grow, adding that the right mindset to such growth was to think through the nation’s talents.
PMF Chief Coordinator, Mrs Omotayo Gbajabiamila-Olamona said the country would get quality delivery from youths when they were prodded in the right direction.
Gbajabiamila-Olamona said investment in infrastructure, without same in human capacity, would not make the country to get expected successful result.
Credit: Nation
