FORMER EDUCATION COMMISSIONER FLOATS NGO

-          Concerned about the rising cases of unemployment, former Education Commissioner, Eunice Thomas has launched a non-governmental organization intended to take a significant number of youths off the streets and make them become wage earners and entrepreneurs.

-          Adressing the media last weekend, Mrs. Thomas said the urge to contribute her quota to the Akwa Ibom dream and the overwhelming need to affect our community positively pushed her to try a different approach to issues while trying to effect the necessary change.

-          According to Mrs. Thomas, the NGO which will be called the Success Squad will comprise of volunteers with a target of one hundred thousand membership strength in different spheres of endeavours who are young graduates of various disciplines who are brimming with ideas but whose potentials have been somewhat stunted by the growing dearth of economic opportunities in our society.

-          “This child of circumstance and of necessity was birthed some months ago as a result of the overwhelming need to affect our community by trying a different approach to issues and effecting the necessary change.

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