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NNPC Boss Links Security Challenges To Unemployment

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu, has linked the security challenges and other sectarian crises in the … Continue reading NNPC Boss Links Security Challenges To Unemployment


The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu, has linked the security challenges and other sectarian crises in the country to the high rate of unemployment and poverty amongst the youth. 

The NNPC boss gave the hint at the graduation ceremony of the fifth set of the Kaduna Refinery Youth Empowerment and Skill Acquisition Programme held in Kaduna, North West Nigeria.

He said that the programme initiated by the management of Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KPRC) was an indication of NNPC’s corporate social responsibility towards its host communities.

Mr Yakubu, who was represented at the occasion by the Acting Group Executive Director Refining and Petrochemical  Services, Mr Paul Obele, said the entrepreneurial skills programme provides an opportunity for the youth to be self-reliant since government cannot provide job to all the youth in the country.

According to  the Acting Managing Director KRPC, Dr Bafred Enjugu in his  welcome address,  the youth  especially graduates of tertiary institutions must  find alternative means of providing means of livelihood for themselves rather than waiting for white collar jobs that are not sufficient.

The programme by the management of KPRC to empower youth of its host community was initiated in 2008 with 100 participants and has continued running successfully in the last four years.

With the graduation of another batch of beneficiaries, the expectation is that these youth will make good use of this opportunity and engage themselves in meaningful ventures that will see them become self-reliant in future, rather than becoming a security threat to their community and the state in general.