Miss World Nigeria 2026, Tamunosoye Karibi-George, has sought a partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to expand youth skills acquisition and entrepreneurship programmes across the country….
Miss World Nigeria 2026, Tamunosoye Karibi-George, has sought a partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to expand youth skills acquisition and entrepreneurship programmes across the country.
Karibi-George made the appeal during a courtesy visit to the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, at the scheme’s National Directorate Headquarters in Abuja.
The beauty queen, who is a former corps member, said her pet project focuses on empowering young Nigerians through vocational training.
She disclosed that her fashion design centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has been equipping young men and women with practical skills and providing them with start-up kits upon completing their training.
“While in camp at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Kubwa-Abuja, in 2021, I participated actively in SAED training and this gave me the impetus to establish a fashion design centre in Port Harcourt,” she said.
“We have been training youth at the centre and giving them start-up kits at the end of their training. We don’t give them money so as to avoid the temptation of them diverting it into another use than the business we train them for.”
Karibi-George also requested permission to visit NYSC orientation camps nationwide to encourage corps members to embrace the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme.
Responding, Nafiu commended the beauty queen for promoting youth entrepreneurship, describing her initiative as consistent with the objectives of the NYSC’s SAED programme.
“As an institution, we introduced SAED in 2012 having realised that government alone cannot provide jobs for the ever-increasing number of young graduates annually,” he said.
“We encourage corps members to pick up at least one skill during the orientation period and nurture it afterwards, in addition to the certificates they obtained from school, in order to have multiple streams of income.”
He reaffirmed the scheme’s readiness to partner with Karibi-George, saying skills acquisition and entrepreneurship remain “the surest way of pulling the nation out of poverty.”
Nafiu also congratulated her on emerging as Miss World Nigeria 2026 and urged her to be a worthy ambassador for the country at the 73rd Miss World Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, later this year.
“As we wish you a very successful outing at the global fiesta, we want to assure you of our moral support and prayers,” he said, adding that the international pageant offered her an opportunity to showcase Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage through cultural diplomacy.
