Youth Empowerment: This is the transformational programme of the present administration in which the actual data of employable unemployed youth shall be known and what quantity and size to be catered for in this kind of empowerment viz-a-viz skill acquisition to be embarked on. Unskilled youth willl be inculcated into construction work and desilting of drainages based on their skill and vocation. The youths of the local government will be taught different skills for example, Bead making, Hat making,Sewing, Hair salon work, catering services etc. Project monitors will be employed. After the project, there will be an evaluation in order to ascertain the degree at which the youths are empowered. The strategy focuses on five elements in empowering young people: find change, knowledge generation and sharing, skills development, Education of policy advocacy. The cause of empowering the youths interconnects qualitative education development-ICT as a means to education and improvement skills acquisition and social entrepreneurship. At the centre of empowering the youths is education (formal informal)making education improvement paramount thus, the investment in early education is a necessity in the youth empowerment process. Our society presently needs encompassing youth strategy to adequately equip the younger generation for the future that is characterized by rapid changes, the existence of globalization, the development of the knowledge society and an ageing population. The demographic trend makes the need more pressing, the pressure of supplying a growing elderly population will fall upon a declining numbers of workers, Implying on the one hand, the importance of quality and updated education through ICT, on the other hand the need to better prepare the Nigerian youth through informal education for the benefit of our economy. Click here to register for this programme Skill Acquisition: To facilitate the development of a novice into an expert we should understand the psychological components that characterize skilled performers from unskilled performers. Guthrie (1952) defines a skill as the ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy or of time and energy. A novice could conceivably execute a flawless motor skill, yet not be able to perform it consistently, or with as little effort relative to an expert performer. Since an individual is limited to perform one complex task at a time (Boutcher 1992) an individual may have to divert all of their attentional capacity toward a new task. As individuals practice a particular motor skill, they eventually learn to eliminate extraneous movement and to effectively coordinate muscles to act as a single functional unit. As skills become automatic, considerably less thought is necessary to effectively complete the task. This allows skilled performers to attend to other relevant cues in the
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