The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arc. Sunny Echono, has pledged to partner with the Ugwumba Leadership Centre in creating more jobs for Nigerian youths through entrepreneurship development.

Speaking when the management of the Ugwumba Leadership Centre, led by Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, paid him a courtesy call, he called on well meaning Nigerians to empower the teeming population of youths in the country.

According to him, “I was impressed last year when I attended your event and saw members of the international community and technocrats in attendance.

“What your Center is doing by empowering young entrepreneurs in Nigeria is gradually impacting on the Nigerian society and we want to be a part of it.”

Nwosu justified the decision to reach out to the authorities in TETFUND, saying it was aimed at advancing the scope of job creation programmes for Nigerian youths and young graduates, as well as undergraduates, who he said are the major beneficiaries of our enterprise development programs.

He announced that he founded the Center in 2018 to be able to contribute towards the reduction of the high youth unemployment in Nigeria and Africa, which are evident in the rates kidnapping, banditry and other social vices have multiplied in the society.

Executive Director of the Ugwumba leadership centre, Mr Remy Chukwunyere said that the Centre is desirous of partnering with TETFUND to implement an entrepreneurship challenge ” that targets only students in the tertiary schools with the aim of promoting #creativity and #innovation among students.

Mr. Remy Chukwunyere also announced the Center’s Rebrand Nigeria Essay Competition for tertiary school students, with the theme: “MY RESPONSIBILITIES TO MY COUNTRY, NIGERIA,” which he said was aimed at promoting patriotism and to inculcate our national values into the students.