By Olasunkanmi Akoni
LAGOS—A non-profit  organisation, Light-Up Foundation, in collaboration with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos Council, has concluded arrangements to bring unemployed youths together, identify with their skills and link them up with organisations that might need them for employment.
Towards this, the Foundation will hold a sensitisation conference in Lagos on August 11.
Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs. Olasubomi Iginla-Aina, who disclosed this at a media briefing held at the council Secretariat in Lagos, weekend, expressed optimism that the project would work because it was working in Britain.

Iginla-Aina, accompanied by Chairman of the Lagos NUJ, Alhaji Waheed Oba, said there was no need for “our youths to leave the shores of the country for greener pasture in Britain or United States of America. The truth is there is no place like home. I lived in Britain but Nigeria is my home.”

She said since the inception of the programme, it had been doing well.
She said: “When I got to the United Kingdom (UK),  we started working with youths. Among others, we have just opened a multipurpose centre in the UK where tannings, counselling and several programmes aimed at impacting on lives are held.”

Besides offering counselling service, we also encourage youths to use the facilities free for their own projects in a bid to keep them off the streets and prevent them from getting involved in crime. Over the last two years we have produced over 300 trained youths.”

Aina further explained that in Nigeria, when the foundation started the project it had a food bank project which was taken to Niger Republic.