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Group pegs N47m to train 320 youths

A youth group, Brotherhood All Youth Assembly (BAYA) has set aside N46,950,000 to train Nigerian youths over the next five years. This amount is to…

A youth group, Brotherhood All Youth Assembly (BAYA) has set aside N46,950,000 to train Nigerian youths over the next five years.

This amount is to cover 230 youths hoping that it would have a multiplier effect of empowering and creating jobs for another 2,150 youths.

This was disclosed by Patriarch Shepherd Edet Archibong, spokesman of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star which is the mother Organization for BAYA when he briefed journalists in his office about the week-long activities to mark the group’s yearly youths conventions.

He said the empowerment and training which has since started with the training and empowerment of 70 youths, will be in agriculture, education, entertainment, broadcasting as well as sports.

“These programmes would be implemented in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively with the hope that it will truly meet and respond closely to provide lifelines for our youths.

He said they trained 70 youths from ten states of Nigeria in 2021 in organic farming and beneficiaries received starter parks to enable them put the skills acquired to use.

Archibong said the purpose of the annual BAYA conventions which started in 2021 in Port Harcourt is to inculcate virtuous spirit into the youths in order to discourage them from laziness, crimes and other evil tendencies.

Secretary of the BAYA Enterprise Council, Mr. Eneawaji Ukoima disclosed further that selection of another set of 70 youths for the 2022 empowerment programme, which is Education will kick-start on 19 September 2021.

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