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The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Mr Olusegun Awolowo has revealed that if properly developed, the non-oil sector would earn the country over $50 billion and create 500,000 employment opportunities for teeming youths in the country.
Awolowo noted that the federal government was committed to drive the country from the dependence on crude oil and explore other areas which would boost economic growth and development.
He said, “In the non-oil sector the quest to create a market thrust of the federal government. The development of the non-oil sector if properly harnessed can see the country earn more than $50billion, create more than 500,000 additional jobs annually as a result of export activities. It can also lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty.”
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Empowerment Squared Launches Hope Development Program in Liberia
Empowerment Squared Launches Hope Development Program in Liberia
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Hamilton, Ontario – Canadian-based charity Empowerment Squared announced today that it will soon be working with local partners and communities in Liberia to empower a minimum of 75 economically and socially disadvantaged Liberians aged 18-35 through digital literacy, financial literacy, and basic entrepreneurship skills, and provide them with holistic psychosocial counselling and seed funds to experiment with self-employment.
Empowerment Squared, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, will be implementing the Harnessing Opportunities to Promote Entrepreneurship (HOPE) development program over the next 12 months in Liberia. This initiative builds on Empowerment Squared’s efforts in establishing the Liberian Learning Center – which will be the only purposely built public library and small business incubation hub in the country. HOP