UNESCO TAP to train 1.2m youth on entrepreneurship in 10yrs
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation TAP project has a target to train about 1.2 million youth on various entrepreneurial skills in Nigeria in the next 10 years.
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