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The Centre for African Renaissance, Reformation and Development (CEFARRD), a non-governmental organisation, says it will equip 10 million Africans with skills and knowledge that will make them professionally and financially viable. 

In a statement in Lagos on Friday, Chidi Okpaluba, president and founder of CEFARRD, said the project named, ‘Every Youth a Skill Africa’ is a solution developed to train up to one million people at a time within six months.

He said the training will start from mind transformation to inner-man change and then skill impartation. He also said the skills will make them employable and able to start their own business.

He said the major problem affecting development in the country is insecurity, and without security, there would be no economic growth.

“All we have are men and women who have no skills or training that will give them decent jobs and good quality life,” he said.

“We believe that the human capital of any nation is the most critical and important part of that nation. It is the human capital that can think, create, envision, imagine and bring solutions to problems and when the human capital is neglected, the nation is doomed to a life of poverty.

“The poverty ravaging Africa today is largely due to the fact that its leaders are neglecting to develop its most critical resources and killing each other over natural and physical resources.

“So every youth a skill project Africa is aimed at training 10 million youths in the next 10 years on skills and knowledge that will make them relevant in the 21 century and move them out of poverty.

He asked local governments, state governments, and the federal government to join hands with the organisation to achieve its aim and eliminate poverty in the country.