Centre for Values in Leadership has scheduled a year-long training in entrepreneurship in the Youth Entrepreneurship Development Programme for one hundred aspiring entrepreneurs.
The training, which begins tomorrow, April 13 in Warri, Delta State, is the third of four cities where the Centre is conducting the training for 400 would-be entrepreneurs. The 100 young people emerged from a pool of 726 candidates.
A statement from the Centre said that other cities for the training are Ibusa, Agbor, and Ozoro and that it had commenced at Ibusa and Agbor while it would take off at Ozoro on April 18 at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
“Participants for Warri and Ozoro training come from local governments in the area. They include Warri South, Warri Central, Warri North, Udu, Okpe, Uvwie, Ughelli North, Ughelli South, Isoko South, Patani, Burutu, Sapele and Bomadi.
“Under the Youth Entrepreneurship Development Programme, the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) would partner several organisations and individuals to teach, mentor and guide the participants. A further 200 persons would participate in a finishing school.”
The statement quoted Professor Pat Utomi, founder of the Centre as saying that the 400 participants would receive training valued at N3.5 million per head over the period and that their curriculum would include Self Mastery, Pedagogy of the Determined, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Finance and Operations. There would also be Vocational Skills Training. The training is free.
It said that the participants would intern in organizations in Onitsha, Benin and Asaba and that they would also deploy the vocational skills developed in their training in a community service project to construct prefabricated houses from kits imported into the country.
The statement added that the Centre would donate the homes, valued at N2 million each, to widows and elderly females with housing challenges. [myad]
