The Ondo State Government has assured youths of life-improvement programmes targeted at empowering them.
The Deputy Governor, Dr. Olayide Adelami made this commitment while receiving the Owo Youths Assembly in his office in Akure.
Dr Adelami, said youth development was central to the progress and development of any nation, emphasised that the Lucky Aiyedatiwa led administration was roundly committed to ensuring that youths across the 18 Local Government areas are gainfully engaged.
The Deputy Governor emphasized that skills acquisition for the youths to be self-reliant was Cardinal to the administration stressing that there are other vocational skills they can acquire which he said could make them employers of labour while earning a living.
He tasked the youths to develop themselves and the community where they live.
Dr Adelami mentioned that different programmes including vocational skills acquisition to empower the youths would soon be rolled out by Governor Aiyedatiwa’s administration to reduce indexes of unemployment in the state.
Earlier, The President of Owo Youths Assembly, Basiru Adeola, who congratulated the Deputy Governor expressed gladness for the deliberate programmes and policies of the present administration to engender needed development in the state.