After a successful outing last year in Owerri, Imo State, Rise Networks’ National Youth Forum continues in its crusade of encouraging young Nigerian Graduates to embrace The Blue Collar Campaign Initiative (Hands on Skills).
Each year, only 40,000 out of the over 400,000 Nigerian graduates who pass out of the NYSC scheme get employment. Furthermore, only about 20 percent of the 40,000 graduates who get employed are in their desired place of work.
These are clear indications that the employment capacity of the country is inversely proportional to available job seekers. The employing capacities of multi-nationals and blue chip companies (which are the dreams of young job seeking graduates) that service hundreds of thousands of Nigerian Youth are relatively low.
As you may well know, RISE NETWORKS is an institution passionately dedicated to assisting Youth to express and achieve their highest feats in idea building, education advancement and wholesome human development.
After a much deserved hiatus taken to research and plan, the highly anticipated, national discourse on Nigeria’s Youth development blueprint, Rise National Youth Forum is finally back with this Season’s theme as NIGERIA BEYOND OIL; Strengthening Youth Entrepreneurship in the Next Most Productive Sectors), ENTERTAINMENT + AGRICULTURE + TECHNOLOGY – (EAT).
The highlight of the restructured Program is the BLUE COLLAR JOBS CAMPAIGN (Hands on Skills) Initiative; a Strategic Focus on Vocational Skills. This season’s event will feature very experienced, skilled, knowledgeable Entrepreneurs and dynamic Change Agents as Speakers entrepreneurs who will teach/train Participants and also prepare their minds to compete in the “soon would-be” next most productive sectors.
Guest Speakers include:
Professor Pat Utomi, Director, Lagos Business School and Founder, Centre for Values Leadership.
Reginald Nworka, Head of SME Projects, International Finance Corporation.
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, Rolex Laureate, Ashoka Fellow and Founder/CEO Smallholder Foundation.
Onyeka Akumah, Former Vice President, Marketing of Konga.com and Founder, Qwlkgist.com.
Jerry Uchechukwu Eze, President, Streams of Joy International.
Date is 21st March, 2014
Venue – Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria
The event is free and open to all
Visit www.risenetworks.org for more details
