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By Madu Obi
The Special Adviser to the Anambra State governor on Security Matters, AVM Ben Chiobi (Rtd) would lead other resource persons, including the Regional Coordinator, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, Mrs. Chito Onuzulike to discuss challenges and opportunities for social innovation among youths in the South East geopolitical zone.
The event, which is scheduled to hold on Saturday, September 30, 2023 at the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Secretariat of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, is expected to catalyze forward-thinking and thought-provoking conversations aimed at harnessing the inherent potentials in the South East geopolitical region, to ensure optimal productivity, especially among the youths.
The Executive Director of Pivot, the organizers of the conference, Barr. Ifedi Eze, described his group as an assemblage of progressive indigenous professionals who have decided to take the bull by the horn by way of catalyzing forward-thinking and thought-provoking conversations aimed at harnessing the inherent potentials in the South East geopolitical region towards optimal productivity, especially among the youthful demography.
Eze observed that young professionals were creating a rallying point that would serve as a platform on which innovation would be stimulated, assuring that entrepreneurship would be supported and encouraged, while excellence would be rewarded and individual and corporate growth motivated.
He lamented that the past five years had been a period bedeviled with socioeconomic problems which had impacted negatively on the economic indices of the Eastern region.
Eze said: "Soaring rate of Inflation, youth unemployment, declining standards of living and general economic malaise have been some of the results of these trends. We have been in this strait for so long that a vast majority of our people have begun to take this as the new normal.’
"We at The Pivot have, however, decided to reinvent the wheel by way of social re-engineering, deliberate human capital development, economic stimulus packages and not forgetting efforts towards a sustainable paradigm shift that would allow our people to start seeing new possibilities on the horizon".
He described the Pivot as an initiative and a platform to champions a paradigm shift in the collective societal journey within the context of a developing African landscape.
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