Tag: self-employment

Self-Employment : AMCON empowers Three corps members

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The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has initiated an entrepreneurship and empowerment programme for Corps Members.   Tagged the “Managing Director’s Annual NYSC Entrepreneurship Competition”, the programme involved business plan contest among Corps Members serving in the organisation.   At the end of the maiden edition of the initiative, three of the fifteen contestants came tops and were presented cheques of Five Hundred Thousand Naira each at a ceremony held at AMCON’s office in Abuja.   They were Joanna Jewel Adamu (FC/21A/1265), Umar Aliyu Gosta (FC/21A/1251) and Abdulsamad Saidu…

NYSC DG advises corps members on creativity,self-employment

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Corps Members have been advised to develop their skills and embrace dignity of labour while striving towards self-employment. The Director-General, NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, gave this advice today at the FCT Orientation Camp in Kubwa while addressing the 2020 Batch ‘B’ Corps Members deployed to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. He urged them to acquire skills that would make them wealth creators instead of seeking scarcely available white collar jobs. The Director-General admonished the Corps Members to embrace the NYSC SKill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme that was introduced…

NYSC DG tasks corps members on self-employment

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Corps Members have been advised to embrace the dignity of labour while striving towards self-employment. The Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, gave this advice today in his address to the 2020 Batch ‘B’ Stream IA Corps Members at the Orientation Camps in Sokoto and Kebbi States. He urged them to acquire skills that would make them wealth creators instead of seeking for scarce salaried jobs. “Don’t wait for white collar jobs. Respect the dignity of labour, be focused and be committed. Discover your talents and work towards harnessing them and…