Embrace entrepreneurship, corpers told

A cross-section of NYSC members

Founder of the Joan Agha Foundation, Mrs. Joan Agha, has urged members of the National Youth Service Corps to embrace entrepreneurship in order to create jobs for themselves and contribute to national development.

Agha said youths could achieve breakthroughs in entrepreneurship despite the challenges in the business environment.

She made the call at a seminar the foundation organised for the NYSC members in Lagos on Friday.

Agha said her organisation had helped many graduates to start businesses in the past one year.

She said the foundation would empower, at least, five NYSC members to enable them to start enterprises.

The beneficiaries, she added, would receive N150,000 grant each.

“If more people are interested, we will do more. We can give N500,000 or N1m to an individual if we have more support,” she said.

Agha said many youths were doing well in entrepreneurship, and that the argument that Nigerian youths were wasting their lives was untrue.

She urged youths to explore their ability in creating wealth that will enable them to succeed in life.

source: Punch newspaper