NETSummit unemployment battle set for December

As the nation continues to turn out more unemployed graduates annually, the National Employment Transformation Initiative has rekindled the hopes of Nigerian youths as it has pledged massive decline in unemployment in its forthcoming summit through training, skill acquisition, and partnerships.

According to the convener, Seun Shogbamu, NETSummit, formerly known as National Career Fair which is scheduled to hold December 13, 2018 at the University of Lagos has in the last 6 years created nothing less than 9,000 jobs and paid internships nationwide.

Adding that NET will keep striving harder to see the total eradication of unemployment in the country, Shogbamu highlighted major cause of unemployment and employment shortcomings as lack of basic and professional skills, and emphasized that this year’s summit is billed to focus more on trainings and molding crude and non-crude prospects, and positioning them strategically towards a growing and demanding workforce through partnering top HR, vocational training and skill acquisition organisations such as Andela, Gr8jobsng, Workforce Group, Poise, Jobberman, EdubridgeAcademy, Dragnet.

FIRS boss Babatunde Fowler, Jimi Agbaje, Muiz Banire (SAN), NairaBet’s Akin Alabi, UBER, Nestlé Nigeria, Feminik Logistics, Kaffy, Funke Akindele, Mai Atafo, Abisoye Fagade, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Yinka Olugbodi, SeyiLaw, Kingsley Ezeani, Shola Animashaun, Eniola Joshua, Guardian Jobs, Hybrid Group, Delicacies Plus, Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) are among the professionals and organizations that have featured at past NETSummits.