The First Bank of Nigeria organises an empowerment programme to help youths create wealth in the country

The First Bank of Nigeria is committed to helping the youth to be financially independent and create wealth. This is why it organised the second edition of First Bank’s youth empowerment programme with the theme, ‘Goals, Grit and Grind’ in Lagos.  According to Gbenga Shobo, deputy managing director, First Bank, Nigeria must teach the youth early how to create wealth  and grow business.

At the event, Shobo urged the youths to have goals and work towards achieving them. While noting that many of the youths were already trained in different professions, he said the career goals were diversified and choosing what to do was a challenge for many of them.

Shobo said youths of this generation had more opportunities to create wealth than the generation of their parents. They are in a stage of their life when they could achieve a lot and they should identify what they could do to create wealth for themselves, he noted.

“If it is something you have passion for, it is likely you will be successful at it, but it is not everything you have passion for that will be successful, so think of your goal, identify what you want to be, how long it will take you to  get there and start working towards it,” he said.

According to Shobo, it is relevant for them to have grit or resilience, so that they will be able to cope when they have challenges. The deputy managing director said the youth programme was one that the bank intended to continue to do every year.

Some participants in the previous edition of the programme also talked about how they used the capital they were given by the bank to start their business. Some of the guest speakers taught the youths how to have goals and be focused to achieve them. The participants were also enlightened on why they should speak out if they were being sexually and morally abused, so that they would be able to get help on time and not suffer in silence.

– Jan. 11, 2019 @ 14:59 GMT |