From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja
A Director in the Kogi state ministry of agriculture, Comrade Gabriel Akor Over the weekend charged Students of post primary institutions to embrace artisan schemes to reduce unemployment saga in the society.
Comrade Akor gave the charge at the end of the year get-together of the Ome Progressive Brothers held at Lokoja over the weekend.
He pointed out that the era where graduates scouts round for white scholar jobs is over stressing that early counseling of pupils towards their future endeavours should be paramount amongst parents.
“Tutoring students to engage themselves in different learning fields of their choices after school hours is the solution to unemployment that many graduates are facing in the society today.” He stressed.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Ome Progressive Brothers, Engr. Joseph Omejo who was represented by his Vice, Mr. Boniface Omakoji called for the peaceful coexistence among the people to enable development triumph in their community.
He pointed out that it is through unionism that people can speak in one voice adding that efforts must be intensified to give the union the desired financial support to justify the progressive status.
In his remarks, the Chairman of Egume Ome Descendants Union, (EODU) Lokoja branch, Comrade Noah Ocheni (JP), enjoined other related clubs from Egume to rally round the Umbrella body of the Union (EODU) to enable it achieve its set objectives.
Ocheni therefore urged members of the union to embark on small scale business to enable the family strive in the face of this dwindling economy in Nigeria today.
