Encouraging Youth, Women Will Hasten Africa’s Development – Siasia — Leadership Newspaper

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The chairman of the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum, Moses Siasia, has said that Africa can attain development faster if the right investment is put into youth entrepreneurship and women empowerment, taking a cue from examples of developed nations.

Siasia, a leading advocate for young people and former governorship candidate of Nigeria’s Bayelsa State in 2015, spoke at the recently held Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla, Morocco on the subject of Youth Entrepreneurship and Women Leadership in Africa.

He called on regional governments within Africa to invest in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), as such, investments will provide the needed support for youths who desire to take up entrepreneurship saying that such will ensure that more people are self-employed and are able to create quality jobs.

Siasia spoke alongside the vice president of the Republic of Liberia, Chief Dr Jewel Howard-Taylor, first lady of The Gambia, Mrs Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow and First Lady of Mali,…



Source: Leadership Newspaper