The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo during his visit to Benin city commended The Mr Voiceover Mentorship Initiative team for their activities geared towards job creation and empowerment.

The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and the Executive Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki at the presidential villa in Edo State government house applauded the team of students, Ifeanyi Dickins, Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, Ayodele Ayodeji, Akomolafe Jesutomi, Andrew Nwuzurike, and others for thinking out of the box to solve environmental pollution. This initiative is aimed at creating jobs for millions in the country by converting waste nylon wrappers got from trash bin into creative paintings and collage artworks for portrait, furniture design, interior decoration, monument and others. The vice president took one of the creative paintings for further review at the Aso Rock Villa & to be shown to President Mahammadu Buhari.

In another development, University Of Benin Vice Chancellor, Professor Faraday Orunwense and Dean Of Arts, Professor Eddy Erhagbe also celebrated the students for portraying the school in good light. Hence, the student's achievement have shown in tandem with the philosophical ideology of the academia ‘knowledge for service’.

The visionary campus prodigies in an interview with our correspondents spoke about their passion towards empowering Nigerian students and unemployed youths by creating avenues for talent discovery and development leading to sustainable assets needed to tackle unemployment menace in Nigeria as well as impacting the lives of the physically challenged, orphans and the internally displaced (IDPs) as a means to touch lives.

Members of the team lauded the intrepid commitment of President Mohammadu Buhari in the developmental direction of creating jobs and empowering the youths in the country. They pledged their unflinching commitment to President Buhari’s job creation initiative for youth empowerment through their vast creative skills geared towards creating jobs and making a lasting impact in Nigeria and beyond.

Speaking further, they stressed the need for the government to support their innovative skills, thereby creating an enabling platform for more innovative graduates and youths to contribute their problems-solving ideas and expertise to bring substantial growth to the country.

Mr Voiceover Mentorship Initiative team consisting mostly of just graduating students of the university of Benin recently bagged a double international award recognition as an Organization Making a Different In West Africa and Student Brand Of The Year West Africa on West Africa Citizens Awards 2018 for their sustainable impacts on student/youth development programme themed; Talent Discovery And Development, A Panacea To Solving Unemployment Menace in Nigeria and by extension Africa.

The vision of the initiative is to create a template for those in government to understand the dimensions of empowerment and job creation for the unemployed youths and graduates, since majority of graduates in Nigeria rarely practice what they study. There's need to empower the youths and unemployed graduates based on the talents or skills they have to offer the society or the talent/skill they wish to be trained in.