NSUKKA---- Apparently bothered by the high rate of unemployment in the country, especially the South East, the Enugu State governor, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Peace Mass Transit, Dr. Maduka Onyishi, yesterday, mentored Nsukka youths on entrepreneurship and employment skills.

 Ugwuanyi, while addressing the over 3000 youth of the Nsukka cultural zone at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium, PAA, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, during the kick-off a seven-day training summit tagged 'Nsukka Youth Entrepreneurship and Employability Summit 2020' said his government had already keyed into Small and Medium scale Enterprises for the youth of the state at large.
Ugwuanyi was represented on the occasion by the state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze, saying that entrepreneurship and skills acquisition trainings remained the panacea for wealth creation and taking the unemployed youths off the streets.
His words, "What is happening here today is in line with the vision of my administration for youth development. Today, government is making opportunities available for young people in the state through the SME programme. It is an agency of the government that trains the youth on entrepreneurship and provide start-up fund and facilities for beginners.
"Another effort we are making is to re-evaluate the curriculum of our educational system to infuse entrepreneurship and other vocational studies into it. 
"We are here to challenge you to take up skills which would make you not to be going from office to office, looking for jobs that are not there. Become creative and solve problems in your immediate environments, that is how to create wealth.
"You may be a university graduate with first-class certificate but without employability skills. Some of the problems we have today is that of graduates that are not employable. Some of them are without skills. Success in whatever you are doing depends on your level of commitment to your chosen endeavours. You have to be creative, innovative and have problem-solving skills to succeed in life." 
Earlier in his keynote address, the Peace Mass Transit boss, Dr Onyishi, asked the youth to work very hard if they wanted to be wealthy or self employed. 
According to him, "Those that made money are not the most intelligent but those who took their ideas to the market for money."
He told the youth to always seek for the services of experts to mentor them on the best way to succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavours, as some ideas die prematurely due to lack of mentorship.
He also urged the youth to acquire relevant skills in Information and Communication Technologies, ICT, to remain relevant in today's society, as most disciplines cannot be practised without in-depth knowledge of information and softwares.
The converner of the summit and the CEO of Afriwise Global Limited, Ernest Ike Ugwu, said the summit was organised in a bid to bridge the knowledge gap in the society; especially, in Nsukka cultural zone.
Ugwu who also bemoaned the unemployability of most Nigerian graduates said that what was lacking were not jobs but the requisite skills to execute them, adding that the summit would change the orientation of the youth in the zone towards embracing needed skills for the 21st century industries.