NNPC Foundation Targets 200,000 Corps Members for Financial Literacy Training

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) Foundation has unveiled a programme with its partner, Kudimata Nigeria Limited, a financial education outfit, for the training of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members on basic financial literacy skills.

The training, a statement from the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the organisation, Femi Soneye, said, aligned with the objectives of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) scheme of the NYSC.

“So far over 118,000 youth corps members have been trained in financial literacy, while about 70,000 are being trained across the 37 NYSC orientation camps in the country,” the statement added.

Speaking during the training, the Managing Director, NNPC Foundation, Emmanuella Arukwe described financial literacy as not only the bedrock of all successes in the ever-competitive labour market, but a journey towards attaining self-actualisation.

Arukwe, who implored the corps members to leverage on the knowledge garnered from the training to avert white-collar job syndrome, added that the NNPC Foundation was committed to impacting the youth corps members to become employers of labour.