By Aminat Babatunde
In a bid to reduce unemployment rate in the country, the Director Centre for Community Development, Kwara State University, Malete, Lawal Olorungbebe has advised youths to develop their hidden talents and acquire new skills that will help them harness their potentialities.
Speaking on Saturday, at a youth summit with the theme, “Re-directing and harnessing the latent potentiality of youth,” held at Community Health Care Hall Adeta, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, Olorungbebe noted that talent is inborn and could be discovered by taking steps to spark it.
He added that after such steps had been taken the youth should seek elders’ advice on how to go about it.
“Despite the fact that talent is inbuilt, you may not discover it until some steps are taken. Talent does not come out by itself until you trigger it. You just have to look for it.
“If you want to know where you are good at, seek things you can do effortlessly. Things that come naturally and concentrate on things you can do with less effort,” he said.
In his address, the Chief Executive Officer, Resource Builder Initiative, AbdulHakeem AbdulRahman, urged youths to change their mindset from political inclination and work towards building their careers.
