Over 1.2 million Nigerian youths are to benefit from The August Project (TAP) supported by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goal ( OOSAP-SDGs) aimed at addressing forced labour and modern day slavery. The TAP project is a cognitive re-orientation initiative aimed at improving the lives of Nigerian youths to directly address forced labour and modern day slavery, irregular migration/human trafficking and brain drain in the country. The Global Director, TAP Project SDGs Mission Abdulsalam Ladigbolu, while speaking at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Sagamu, Ogun State, said the project would address four thematic areas, including intellectual leadership, economy, digital technology and capacity building. The project, according to him, would help to achieve the United Nations mandate on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4, 8 and 9) that is quality education, decent work and economic growth. Orelope-Adefulire said the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Training Centre was the first of its kind with workshops for metal fabrication, automobile, woodwork, leather work for automobile, block molding, tailoring, and the ICT where the TAP beneficiaries will also make use for their TAP Project training.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2021 04:04 UTC