Ambode seeks OPS’s partnership on entrepreneurship 

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has urged the organised private sector (OPS) to key into the graduate internship scheme of the Lagos State government aimed at equipping fresh graduates with entrepreneurial skills to transform them into job creators rather than job seekers.

Ambode made the request when a delegation from Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited visited the State House, Wednesday. He tasked the OPS to deploy their corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards empowering youths with relevant trainings with the ultimate goal of contributing to the development of economy and increasing the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP).

He said: “I want our relationship on CSR to be scaled up so that we can start to have some kind of synergy between your expertise and the graduates that we churn out from our tertiary institutions. We can look at a way of exploring new ways of creating wealth among our graduates or even in accessing training that you can afford us both locally and externally so that in the end, we will be able to do what we think is good for our fresh graduates and we will be part of the success story of Total and also make our graduates to be useful to the society on their own.”

Nicolas Terraz, managing director, Total, who led the delegation, said his team was at the Lagos House to strengthen its relationship with the state government.

Terraz, who was accompanied by Ahmadu-Kida Musa, deputy managing director, Deep Water District, and the top management staff of the company, lauded the strides made by the government in the area of security and infrastructural development.