Lorine Emenike
Chief Oliver Wolugbum, the former Rivers State director of National Orientation Agency (NOA) and the chairman Rebisis Heritage Foundation has said that the creation of employment opportunities for youths in Rebisi Kingdom as well as other parts of the state will help check the rising youth restiveness in the society.
Wolugbom said this at a one-day sensitization/ orientation program that was put together by Rebisi Heritage Foundation to orientate the youths of Rebisi Kingdom.
Continuing, Wolugbom urged companies operating in Rivers State to employ and accommodate youths from their host communities. He added that the program was put together to orientate youths of the Kingdom.
He said, contemporary challenges of our society make it imperative to regularly reorienta young minds away from unhelpful ways of thinking and prepare them to turn challenges into stepping stones for success.
“This is part of the overall effort along with the skills training of other categories of young people to close knowledge and skill gaps towards making them relevance in our today society.”
He used the medium to commend Total Elf and others for the support and urged other communities of the state to also create avenues to better orientate her youths.
Also, one of the facilitators of the event, Mr. Young Ayo-Tamuno, the Present Rivers State Director of National Orientation Agency, while addressing the youths, encouraged the youths to imbibe both national and kingdom values which are discipline, patriotism, peaceful coexistence, self reliance, religious tolerance, fearlessness, hardworking, honesty, respect for elders, respect for the dignity of human and womanhood and others.
He said that those values would propel them to excellence.
Mr. Young-Tamuno added that the cherished values would help the youths of Rebisi Kingdom desist from cultism, gangsterism as well as divorce.
He also encouraged the participants to aid the state government and security agencies in curbing crime in the state by providing accurate intelligence to will lead to crime prevention.
