 In the face of gripping unemployment and economic hardship, Nigerian youths are set to get inspired and get a sense of direction in the world of entrepreneurship. This hint was given at a press conference to announce this year's edition of Tinkation 2024, being put together by the Ubon King Foundation. The host, Dr. Uyime Ivi King, said the event that switched it on was born to inspire and give young persons business ideas to be great entrepreneurs. Planked by her team members, the convener also said the foundation is bringing successful businessmen and women as resource persons who will add value to the participants. Tinkation is the annual flagship event of the Ubon King Foundation, and it was conceived by our founder, Ubon King, seven years ago. It's made an edition held in 2018 here in Lagos. This event was born out of the founder's burning pain point, having known and tested failure, rejection and ridicule, but he writes from all of that, he rose from the ashes of defeat to success and impactful living. His life experiences birth a strong passion to raise young entrepreneurs, and we demand it to impact their world through creative thinking. It's not just the networking alone. It will be knowledge passed out, there will be a leadership certificate given to participants and many other opportunities that will come with that. And then for the future of Tinkation, we are hoping that eventually we will be able to move Tinkation to different locations, it will be just Lagos. We may have Tinkation even outside of Nigeria by the grace of God, and we are expecting that more people will partner with us to achieve our vision because our vision is loaded. While explaining the benefit of the conference to Nigeria, Dr. Unyume said it would help reduce unemployment by making more Nigerians to think out of the box and be business owners. Tinkation is a creative merger of thinking, education and the organizers believe it is the missing component in young minds and businesses today. We believe in Nigeria. We believe that Nigeria has everything it takes to take her place as a leader among the committee of nations. So this conference is to encourage participants to not just come and listen, to switch on that thing that is on the inside that is yearning for expression. Everybody has something on the inside to offer and will not be among those who sit back and complain, it's not working, government is not doing this, government is not doing that. We are our own governments. So this is our message for this edition. Switch on that gift on the inside. And of course you know when your business turns around, if you're previously like an employer of one, when it blows you can't do it all alone, you need to get more hands in. It becomes a ripple effect and it affects the larger society and cascades for that into the economy. But it just starts from the little seed that Tinkation shows. So there's always an economic impact in various ways. The film switched it on because it's intentional, you have to take that action. Because it took actions, they now have their own businesses. They've employed other persons, they now register the businesses with the government. So it's generating funds for the government through CAC and also giving them the ability to sustain themselves without depending on anybody. So I think the ripple effect, we cannot overemphasize because the stories are out there.