The Federal Government has reiterated its resolve to continue to support and encourage young entrepreneurs in the country to actualise their various business visions.
Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo said this on Friday at the State House, Abuja when he received in audience the victorious students at the recently concluded Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship World Cup, held in San Francisco, California, USA in July this year.
Sambo said: “The transformation agenda of government has the economic empowerment of youths of this country as an integral part of its expected outcomes and therefore government will continue to support genuine efforts by budding entrepreneurs to actualise various business visions.”
While expressing excitement at the victory OF the Junior Secondary School, Karu and Government Secondary School, Jibi, both in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Sambo said: “The victory has come at a time when all hands must be on deck to promote entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises for job creation and wealth creation in our country.”
Sambo congratulated the students, teachers and officials of the MDAs that supported the schools that represented the country at the global entrepreneurship competition and emerged victorious in the Socially Response Business and the Social Enterprise Business categories respectively, adding that their victory over other promising young entrepreneurs at the world event was well deserved considering the dexterity and articulate presentations of their unique business models at the competition.
He said he was informed that this was the fifth time youth entrepreneurship teams from Nigerian secondary schools will triumph at this global business fiesta since it was founded 10 years ago by American professor, Curtis De Berg of the California State University, California.
The VP also said he was informed that based on this victory, Nigeria was awarded the right to host the 2013 edition of the competition, noting that this will accord the country a great opportunity to raise entrepreneurial awareness amongst the youth.
Earlier the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, Dauda Shuaibu Kigbu, said the Nigerians students have excelled and did the country proud at the recently concluded World Cup for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship.
The Executive Secretary for Education, FCT, presented the students to the vice president and said the two schools have won five times in the international competitions held in Ukrain in 2007, Abuja 2008, Brazil 2009, New York 2011 and San Francisco 2012. Representatives of students from both secondary schools took their turn to give power-point presentations of their business plans that won them their trophies.
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