The assessment focused on aspirations and issues of concern to youth and opportunities and challenges facing youth. The assessment report recommended support for equipping youth with leadership and life skills as the concerns were around; Lack of strong youth leaders, The ability to have realistic expectations for the future and hope in the future and Lack of soft skills that are necessary for employment. Centre LSD) accordingly built the capacity of 80 Niger Delta youth on leadership, entrepreneurship, project management, peace building and Information Technology (ICT).

The Centre’s target at the beginning of the programme was to produce at least 50% role models on leadership (40 participants) and 40% for business (32 participants). The rationale for the target was premised on the understanding of the Pareto principle that at least 20 percent of any group of persons trained will put the knowledge to maximum use. But the methodology deployed gave us reason to believe that hitting 50 percent target for role models on leadership and 40 percent on business is possible. The target for business was placed at 40% because of the underlying belief that people in the region target job and rent from oil rather than doing business. The optimism of the Centre was confirmed by the result of an assessment it carried out early December 2014. The result showed thus