*WEALTH CREATION: LG BOSS TO SUPPORT YOUTHS ON SKILL ACQUISITION*

Better days lie ahead for unemployed youths residing in Ijebu-Ode Local
Government Area, as its Transition Committee Chairman, Engr. Olugbenga
Olugbile, has promised to empower them in skills acquisition.

Engr. Olugbile made the pledge in a chat with pressmen in his office at
Ijebu-Ode, saying various empowerment programmes, which were in tandem with Governor Abiodun's vision towards eradicating unemployment among the
teaming youths, as well as, promote socio-economic development, were in the
pipeline.

"We have observed that a lot of our youth lack skills and knowledge, needed
to create wealth and this is part of what our administration will look
into, in emulation of Governor Abiodun's empowerment goals’’, he said.

The LG Boss also revealed that agriculture would be explored to further
create employment opportunities and boost the Internally Generated Revenue
(IGR) of the Council, just as many developmental projects were ongoing in
the Council Area.

"On our assumption of office, we have embarked on reconstruction and
palliatives of some rural roads, as well as procurement of a transformer
for a community in Jaginrin", he said.

He urged the people to be patient, law abiding and cooperate with the
present administration in its development drive, assuring that the dividend
of democracy would get to all.