 And young Nigerians including leaky youth have been charged up to take their destiny in their hands by acquiring new skills and improving themselves in their areas of strength. This charge was given during a career development workshop hosted by coach and performance strategist Dr Abiola Salami in collaboration with the U.S. Consulate. A correspondent Paul George was there. Gathered here are mainly young people, male and female alike. They have come to be empowered through this event to be the best in their world. The speaker who is the founder of Peak Performer Africa, Dr Abiola Salami calls for a minute for the late group managing director and CEO of Access Bank PLC Herbert Weigwe, who was his former employer and boss. Dr Salami speaks on the essence of the event and how it will transform young people and add value to the society. What we're doing here today is to implement the first edition in a series of our collaboration in empowering young people and empowering women. For the past 12 years, our organization has been committed to driving a culture of peak performance in organizations and in community, and we had a lot of young people that came out to obtain insights on how they can drive peak performance, how they can transform our continent and how they can contribute to the socioeconomic development of this country, of their locality and by extension of the African continent. Speaking on the challenges in organizing such a project, Salami says the organization will continue with this laudable initiative and spread it across the country. Definitely this is not one of who will visit different communities across the nation in collaboration with the US consulate on this. Just saying that in principle we're open and ready to make this work. What are the challenges we've encountered? One of them is about really ensuring that young people show up. For example, we had over 250 young people that registered to be here today, but we only had about less than 100 and the interesting thing is it is free. Some of the participants expressed delight about the event and are full of encomiums for the organizer. I learned a lot of things. I'm going to impact in my career as I'm starting because I'm still young. I'm my early 20s and it has been very impactful. I met Dr. Biola today for the first time and I'm so excited to network as well and to meet other people that I came here with too and to also grow myself in my career and also for personal reasons as well. I have learned about branding so he spoke quite a lot about how your impression online is important so you mind what you put out, the way people perceive you and then also about time management. So that is one thing I really took away from this meeting. It was very very impactful. With the current economic challenges young people are faced with in Nigeria. These participants are hopeful for a better career. Paul George, Plus TV News.