In its bid to build the capacity of the youth towards making them employers of labour, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Foundation in partnership with Kudimata Nigeria Limited, a financial education outfit has trained the Batch C members of the National Youth Service Corps in basic financial literacy skills.
The training aligned with the objectives of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development scheme of the NYSC.
It had its maiden edition featuring Batch B stream in the past months.
So far, over 118,000 youth corps members have been trained in financial literacy, while about 70,000 are being trained across the 37 NYSC orientation camps in the country at the moment.
Speaking during the training, the Managing Director, NNPC Foundation, Emmanuella Arukwe, described financial literacy as not only the bedrock of all successes in the ever-competitive labour market but a journey towards attaining self-actualisation, thereby heralding the trajectory to sustainable prosperity of the nation.
Arukwe, who implored the corps members to leverage the knowledge garnered from the training to avert white-collar job syndrome, added that the NNPC Foundation is committed to impacting the youth corps members to become employers of labour.
She said: “We are partnering with both NYSC and Kudimata to bring financial literacy to the corps members, as this will help them make better-informed decisions.
“We are very passionate about young people and NYSC is a veritable ground as it cuts across 20 to 30-year-old youth, thus making it the right demography.
“This programme cuts across the 36 states of the country including the Federal Capital Territory.
“This is the first step towards a series of programmes that will culminate in instilling entrepreneurship in the Corps members.
