Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has said that the government have set aside N75 billion to support the youths while advising parents to reiterates family values in their children and wards.
According to the Minister who made the call in Kaduna during a stakeholders on Saturday, the country needs youths with that appreciates family values to ensure it doesn’t degenerates.
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In an engagement with 77 district heads, religious and community leaders from the 23 Local Government Areas of Kaduna State, Ms Ahmed said ”We are calling the attention of parents that we have failed our children in the sense that the kind of values we use to have is no more.
“We need to remind ourselves that our children need to be upright and that this criminality going on, on daily basis, is not for their benefits and the benefit of the state and country,” she said.
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The minister told the stakeholders that the president Buhari has created an entrepreneurship support fund of N75 billion to enable the Nigerian youths grow their businesses and be economically independent.
She explained that the fund would support the youth to actualise their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, be productive, and employers of labour.
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