NGO moves to create about 1.2million jobs in Nigeria

In a bid to ensure that the Nigerian youths attain necessary innovative training that can support the country’s economy, the Young Business Leaders of Nigeria (YBLN), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has disclosed its plan to reduce unemployment to the barest minimum by creating 1.2 million jobs before the year 2020.
This was disclosed by 33-year old Temitayo Etomi, a graduate of the United States Mandela Washington Fellowship for YBLN. She is an entrepreneur and also the founder of the NGO that has currently employed and training more than 100 Nigerians.

The Young Business Leaders of Nigeria is a network of entrepreneurs and young professionals committed to reducing unemployment in Nigeria by at least 25% in the year 2020 through creation of jobs and improving the skills capacity of unemployed Nigerians.

She said.

The event took place at the United States Consulate Office in Lagos where Participants of the 2015 Budding Entrepreneurs Programme of the Young Business Leaders of Nigeria were received by the Acting Consul General, Dehab Ghebreab.