The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said that Generation Unlimited (Gen U), an empowerment initiative of UNICEF in collaboration with the federal government would provide employment and digital skills for 20 million Nigerian youths.

While launching the initiative in Abuja, Osinbajo said: “After extensive consultation with critical stakeholders, it was agreed that GenU Nigeria will have three key components, digital skills development, and youth engagement.

“Youth employment especially the empowerment of female entrepreneurs is a major aspect of GenU Nigeria. It is going to provide 20 million Nigerians with digital skills link them to entrepreneurial and other job opportunities and assist them in realizing their potentials.”

He said the process is not only significant for the socio-economic development of the country in the coming years but also provides a learning landscape for developing future job growth enabling programmes.

He said the initiative was designed to link over one billion young people with innovations and programmes in 40 countries across six continents.

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“It is part of the ambitious goal of reaching young Nigerians with those opportunities, we can’t achieve the objectives without strong partnerships, the presidency, the federal ministries and the state governments will be collaborating with Generation Unlimited Nigeria, the private sector, the international community and the young people themselves to make this a reality,” he said.

Chief Executive Officer, Tony Elumelu Foundation and the Co-Chair of GenU Nigerian Steering Committee, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu said the objective of the initiative is to ensure that young Nigerians have access to training and skills acquisition that will make them employable and also connect them to jobs.

While saying that Nigeria has 65 million youths, she said the initiative is giving Nigerian youths the platform and training to create their inventions.