Governments’ efforts to encourage entrepreneurs to invest in the country are beginning to yield results and making tremendous impact on the psyche of businessmen.
A one-time Commissioner for Economic Planning and later Commerce in Kaduna state, Mr. Timothy B. Gandu, is one of such entrepreneurs who has established an educational and entrepreneurial resource centre, “Jheyah Nigeria Limited” to “cater for the training of young, retired and entrepreneurial minded persons in various fields of entrepreneurial and educational development.”
Gwandu, a principal private secretary to the late Governor Ibrahim Yakowa, told newsmen at a pre-commissioning press briefing at the weekend that the establishment of the centre was his own contribution to reducing unemployment in the country.
He said it was part of his long dream passion to get young men and women trained to become self-reliant with a view to becoming more productive in addition to increasing the common wealth of the individual and the nation.
The former commissioner explained that joint ventures and thoughts between government and the private centres “can best be efficiently driven by the creation and utilisation of such resource centres.”
He said: “The drive, at this centre, is to reduce poverty and cunemployment by training minds to be productive and independent. Jheyah, an Educational and Entrepreneurial Resource Centre, boast of making ideas become real with the mission of building men and women for self-reliance and integrity.”
Gandu, a seasoned academic and administrator, said he had put together a team of professionals with the vision of turning the educational and entrepreneurial Resource Centre into a foremost “Centre of Excellence in educational and entrepreneurial training with the focus to have a major impact on the country and global community.”
He said the services that would be rendered at the Centre included Remedial/Preparatory study for Science, Arts, Commercial and Vocational civic subjects in WAEC, NECO, JAMB, SAT, TOEFL, entrepreneurial development for serving and retired personnel, business men and women, employed and unemployed as well as Small andMedium scale Enterprises Development for Agriculture among others.