64th Independence Broadcast: President Tinubu Announces 30-day Youth Confab To Address Challenges
By Our Reporter
President Bola Tinubu has announced a 30-day National Youth Conference to provide a platform to address the diverse challenges and opportunities confronting young people in Nigeria.
He made the announcement Tuesday in his broadcast on the occasion of Nigeria’s 64th Independence anniversary.
According to him, the conference will provoke meaningful dialogue and empower young people to participate actively in nation-building and ensuring that their voices are heard in shaping the policies that impact their lives and create a pathway for a brighter tomorrow.
Besides, the President pointed out that the conference will unite young people nationwide to collaboratively develop solutions to issues such as education, employment, innovation, security, and social justice.
He noted that modalities of the Confab and selection of delegates will be designed in close consultation with young people through their representatives.
“Through this confab, it will be our job as leaders to ensure that their aspirations are at the heart of the conference’s deliberations. The government will thoroughly consider and implement the recommendations and outcomes from this forum as we remain resolute in our mission to build a more inclusive, prosperous, and united Nigeria,” President Tinubu assured.
“As we work to overcome the challenges of the day, we remain mindful of the next generation as we seek to galvanize their creative energy towards a better future. We lead today with the future we wish to bequeath to our children in focus, recognizing that we cannot design a future that belongs to them without making them its architects,” he stressed.
He also noted that the government is implementing several other youth-centric programmes to give young people an advantage in the rapidly changing world amongst which are the 3 million Technical Talents programme (3MTT) of the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, aimed at building Nigeria’s technical talent backbone.
On security, the President said the administration is winning the war on terror and banditry and the target is to eliminate all the threats of Boko Haram, banditry, kidnapping for ransom, and the scourge of all forms of violent extremism.
According to him, within one year, the government has eliminated Boko Haram and bandit commanders faster than eve with over 300 Boko Haram and bandit commanders eliminated by gallant troops in the Northeast, Northwest, and some other parts of the country.
“We have restored peace to hundreds of communities in the North, and thousands of our people have been able to return home. It is an unfinished business, which our security agencies are committed to ending as quickly as possible. As soon as we can restore peace to many communities in the troubled parts of the North, our farmers can return to their farms,” he assured.
