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Youths Vie for N5m Business Funding Emmanuel Ugwu, Enugu Governor Chimaroke Nnamani of Enugu State has urged Nigerian youths to tap their individual skills and potential in order to fly away from poverty. He gave the charge while declaring open the kickoffseminar of the National Entrepreneurship Competition, where the winner would receive N5 million reward to start a business and create wealth. "You are to challenge the individual in you, to soar high and see if you can fly. If you can dream, it is achievable," he said. Nnamani stated that poverty is a "very serious issue" in the state hence his administration has been waging a relentless war against the menace, citing the search for potential entrepreneurs as another poverty reduction strategy. Poverty he said, has caused tension in the land and bred crime in the society, noting that discontent, disquiet, cultism, armed robbery, 419 in the land were all products of poverty. According to the governor, there was need to search for solution to the problem of poverty, which has denied many people access to wealth and comforts of life. He described the search for youths who will engage in meaningful enterprise and create wealth as the "greatest ultimate search." Earlier in his speech, the programme manager (SLGP) of the British Department for International Development (DFID), Mr. Joe Abah, explained that Enugu State government initiated the National Entrepreneurship Competition with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, growth, and development of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and parts of Udi and Nsukka. Chief Ogunniyi observed with shock the caving hill at NsuLka and called for a close monitoring and fullscale investigation of the collapsing hiI1 to avert the impending disaster. The State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Chinedu Onu conducted the House Committee members round the ecolgical disaster areas. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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