A Muslim group, Ar-Rahaman Empowerment Foundation has sponsored 30 apprentices to acquire skills in different crafts and also provided them with working tools to start up their individual businesses so as to be self-sustained.
Presenting the working tools in Osogbo to the apprentices, the president of Ar-Rahaman, Mutiu Bamidele, said the group saw the need to help the youths to embark on productive venture and become successful in life.
He said the working tools, worth N1.6 million, were for the beneficiaries to be able to ply the skill they acquired and make legitimate income.
In his keynote address, the dditor of Nigerian Tribune newspaper (Saturday), Lasisi Olagunju, commended the group for the initiative and urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity to succeed and also help others when they become successful.
Olagunju urged wealthy Nigerians to support the group to be able to do more for the youths.
“When I met the members of the Ar-Rahaman Empowerment Foundation and they told me that they want to empower some youths, I felt that they themselves needed empowerment. Therefore, we must support them to sustain this good initiative,” he said.
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party in the state, Barrister Kayode Oduoye and commended the Muslim group for diverting the attention of the youth from criminal activities by giving them means of livelihood.
Dignitaries on the occasion include the Baba Adeen of Osogbo, Senator Bayo Salami, former Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress in Osun State, Alhaji Kayode Aliyu Afolabi, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Works, Engineer Nurudeen Adeagbo, Permanent Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board, (SUBEB), Alhaji Abdul Fatai Kolawole and the Publisher of Aljezeerah magazine, Alhaji Dawood Ajetunmobi.
Source: Daily Trust
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