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| Patience Jonathan |
The FCT administration on
Tuesday commissioned a multi purpose Youth Support Center built at a cost
of 650million naira to provide skills acquisition for unemployed youths and the
handicaps living in the capital territory.
The youth center located in
Nyanya, a Satellite town in the FCT was constructed and equipped with modern
facilities like printing press, information communications technology,
e-library hall, standard multiple workshop, 500 capacity theatre hall, 500 bed
space hostel facility, furnished class rooms and international sport
facilities.
Commissioning the project, the
first lady Dame Patience Jonathan expressed hope that the center if fully
utilized would provide the youth with the needed skill for self reliance,
social security that would ultimately check youth restiveness, armed robbery,
kidnapping, terrorism, thurgery, drug abuse and prostitution.
In his remarks, the FCT
Minister said similar youth center would also be constructed at other local
government councils, stating that there was compelling need to address the
upsurge of youths into the capital territory, adding that the center was
constructed to inculcate the value of handwork,etical rectitude, justice
and moral discipline among the youths.
Earlier, the secretary in charge
of FCT Social Development Secretariat, Blessing Onuh said a committee has been
set up to work out strategies for sustaining and maintaining the centre,
revealing that the centre was commissioned to provide free training services to
the youth
The Centre was however
named after the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan
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