Youth in Northern Nigeria under the Northern Youth Business Roundtable has come together to foster mutual relationship with their state government towards contributing their quota to improving investment climates and economic development of the region despite the high level of insecurity the region has been subjected to.
The Director, Communications Hon. Hamzat Bala conveyed this message in a press statement on the organization’s plan to host the first Northern Youth Economic Summit holding in the first week of April 2014 in Abuja.
He further said, already All Nigerians in Diaspora, ABG Paulas Germany, Seone Educational Services U.S.A, companies from Turkey, China, India, Malaysia, Charity Organizations have already accepted to attend this event which is fully packaged with cross-cutting edge benefits in improving Education, Agriculture, Trade, Commerce & Industry, Construction, Real Estate, Solid Minerals and Export access for the region to increase internal generation revenue to boost jobs creation and empowerment of our youth. He said the website is being developed to enable participants, resource persons, and exhibitors to register online.
On what makes this summit different from others, besides being just a talk-show, he said, the youth have decided to take their destiny in their hands, besides the decision to host this summit was premised on a detailed research conducted on strategic action plan on why the effort of past government yielded no results, promising that a post-summit follow-up activities will focus on implementation of resolutions reached with a view to positively engaging a minimum of 1,000 youth within the next 12 months after the summit.
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