The Chairman/Founder of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia (CON),
has called on the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele (CON) to create the
enabling environment through the institution of various initiatives that
support financial inclusion to help empower and blossom the Nigerian youths.
Jim Ovia made the call in his welcome remarks at a reception
at the Civic Centre organized by the private sector in honour of the CBN
Governor, following a family thanksgiving service held on Sunday, July 14, 2019
at the Catholic Church of Assumption, Falomo, Lagos.
According to Mr. Ovia, though the CBN, and the Federal
Government have been working tirelessly to implement various strategic
development programmes, what has been done so far, is not enough. In his
opinion, there is a need to empower the youths to become the creators of jobs
and employers of labour, as opposed to them only being job seekers.
He urged the CBN helmsman to fully encourage financial
inclusion and initiate more programmes that will create employment for the
Nigerian youths, empowering them to be innovative and creative in utilizing
their God-given talents in various industries including but not limited to
agriculture, fintech, technology and the creative industries. He added that the
implementation of these initiatives, which are in line with the World Bank and
United Nations backed programmes all over the world, will significantly reduce
poverty and unemployment in our country.
He also thanked the CBN Governor for the recent financing
and funding initiatives which banks are mandated to fully support to empower
the Nigerian youths.
Godwin Emefiele became the Governor of the CBN on June 2,
2014, mounting the saddle as the 11th CBN Chief and its 10th indigenous
Governor. Following the successes of the policies and programmes which he
introduced in his first term, he was in June, 2019 reappointed by President
Muhammadu Buhari for a second term of five years, becoming the first CBN Chief
to be reappointed for a second term since the country returned to civilian rule
in 1999.
Jim Ovia urges Emefiele to create the enabling environment
that will empower the Nigerian youths
The Chairman/Founder of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia (CON),
has called on the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele (CON) to create the
enabling environment through the institution of various initiatives that
support financial inclusion to help empower and blossom the Nigerian youths.
Jim Ovia made the call in his welcome remarks at a reception
at the Civic Centre organized by the private sector in honour of the CBN
Governor, following a family thanksgiving service held on Sunday, July 14, 2019
at the Catholic Church of Assumption, Falomo, Lagos.
According to Mr. Ovia, though the CBN, and the Federal
Government have been working tirelessly to implement various strategic
development programmes, what has been done so far, is not enough. In his
opinion, there is a need to empower the youths to become the creators of jobs
and employers of labour, as opposed to them only being job seekers.
He urged the CBN helmsman to fully encourage financial
inclusion and initiate more programmes that will create employment for the
Nigerian youths, empowering them to be innovative and creative in utilizing
their God-given talents in various industries including but not limited to
agriculture, fintech, technology and the creative industries. He added that the
implementation of these initiatives, which are in line with the World Bank and
United Nations backed programmes all over the world, will significantly reduce
poverty and unemployment in our country.
He also thanked the CBN Governor for the recent financing
and funding initiatives which banks are mandated to fully support to empower
the Nigerian youths.
Godwin Emefiele became the Governor of the CBN on June 2,
2014, mounting the saddle as the 11th CBN Chief and its 10th indigenous
Governor. Following the successes of the policies and programmes which he
introduced in his first term, he was in June, 2019 reappointed by President
Muhammadu Buhari for a second term of five years, becoming the first CBN Chief
to be reappointed for a second term since the country returned to civilian rule
in 1999.
