We are challenged by high youth unemployment, which stands at 33.3%; 54% for the youth; and 20 million out-of-school-children. We must give this country back to the Nigerian youths. Half of our 200 million people are below the age of 30.
The median age of this country stands at 17.9, showing that Nigeria has the incredible potentials to develop, if she harnesses the demographic dividends intelligently.
Harnessing our national youth strength must start with curbing the high youth unemployment and creating funding access to enable our youths become entrepreneurs and drivers of our Small and Medium Scale enterprises(SMEs).
They must fund education more robustly, by tweaking the UBEC and TETFund. Within available national resources and TetFund, there should be funds to reasonably tackle the problems of our tertiary institutions and prevent ASUU strikes. Unfortunately, due to State Capture, TetFund has been grossly mismanaged.
The government should intend to change extant and enabling policies to make access to such funds seamless, transparent and dedicated for prescribed purposes.
The youth are raising and we are saying yes to good governance and we also want a future were we all are going to be proud to tell our unborn kids that we fought for their wellbeing.
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