Aisha Buhari tasks 1,000 graduates of Future Assured on self-reliance

The first lady Mrs. Aisha Buhari, yesterday graduated 1000 beneficiaries who participated in the training under her empowerment programme tagged “Future Assured” in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony which was held at the Kwara State Government House premises, she disclosed that beneficiaries were trained in various economic activities in line with the mandate towards empowering women and youths in the state.

 She said “The programme is in line with the mandate of my programme whose main focus has been on the empowerment of women and other less privileged, towards the realisation of economic self-reliance”.

“Since the inception of this administration, we have successfully conducted this empowerment programme where the beneficiaries graduated with certificates in many states while others are still ongoing” she added.

Mrs Buhari who stressed that women and youths are always eager and interested to acquire these skills noted that the programme was put in place towards uplifting the people’s standard of living in the state.

Also speaking, the wife of the Kwara State Governor, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed, reiterated the commitment of the current administration towards providing jobs for the teeming unemployed populace especially youths and women.

She said “Today’s ceremony marks a new pedestal in the lives of the graduands as they will soon not only be self-employed, when they bring their acquired experiences during the training to bare, they will equally become employers of labour thus,  significantly help in reducing unemployment in our country.“

Ahmed therefore advised successful participants to be serious and steadfast in their respective businesses in order to become shining examples to others.