Sterling Bank Plc, has reiterated its commitment to developing skills among the youths in the country. This is as the bank revealed that the second year, it will be supporting iCreate Africa; an advocate of vocational skills development in Africa, to host iCreate Skills festival following its successful debut in Abuja last year.
The event will be held in different cities across Nigeria including Kaduna, Enugu, and Lagos.
It stated that the Kaduna regional competition which held recently featured over 80 competitors across Nigeria’s northern states. The bank said the competition focused on 15 skill categories such as bricklaying, tiling, tailoring, shoemaking, plumbing, and web development, among others.
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While representing Sterling Bank at the event, the Head of Public Relations, Adeola Adejokun, stated, “This is our second year of supporting iCreate Skills festival because the future of the country is in jobs and there is need to do all that is necessary to create jobs in various sectors of the economy.
“This explains the bank’s intervention in areas and sectors that have the potential to create jobs thereby ensuring a future of shared prosperity for all Nigerians.” Adejokun added, “The unemployment figure in the country is alarming, yet corporations are importing trades and craftsmen from other countries. In the construction sector, there is a high demand for tilers and masons from the Republic of Benin in most parts of the country while a large number of young Nigerians idle away.
