Greater Tomorrow Initiative

At GREATER TOMORROW INITIATIVE, we believe that it is possible to create JOBS FOR ALL in Akwa Ibom by 2035! Although daunting BUT POSSIBLE. It only takes you and me who makes up the Governed and the Government to actualize this. For this reason and more, we are also convinced that the #10percent4youths campaign (#AKYDFBILL) is designed to make this a REALITY JOBSFORALLAKS2035

The issue of unemployment and job creation is one that worries every Nigerian. Every Nigerian agrees that there is an unemployment crisis in the country.  In the words of the Chairman, House Committee on Labour, Hon.  Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi during an oversight visit to the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in December 2016, “We know we have unemployment crisis in Nigeria and this agency should lead the federal government’s agenda to ensure that Nigerians are employed.  When we talk of employment, we are taking about Nigerians becoming self reliant. Getting required skills because we have moved from provision of white collar jobs” READ MORE

The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Onofiok Luke has said that previous struggles by youths of the state to be given a political space in the state has begun to yield positive institutional gains. He said this on Thursday during the debate on the second reading of the bill for a law to implement a sustainable youth policy framework through the establishment of Akwa Ibom youth development fund. The bill is sponsored by Hon. Emmanuel Bassey of Ini state constituency. The Speaker said that the state is currently at the phase where the youths are taking advantage of the presence of a large number of youths in government to actualise their development causes. Recalling the days of “political struggles” by some prominent youths in the state between 1999 and 2011, the speaker noted that the proposed law to create a youth development fund was an example of how the youths are benefitting from past struggles for political space by young people. “As a benefici