They say youths are the leaders of tomorrow, others say youth are those filled with strength. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines Youth as a time of life when one is young especially the period between childhood and maturity. Another definition is drawn from the well known Oxford Advanced Dictionary. The Oxford Dictionary puts it as the period of being a young person. All this definitions are correct based on individual perspectives.
The United Nations in their way of promoting equity and fairplay had set aside a day to celebrate the youth, this is the World Youth Day held in August every year. The year 2014 was not left out as the youth were celebrated with the theme "Youth and their mental health".Looking at the background of this theme, the youth contribute greatly to the increasing mentally derailed people in our society and the United Nation organization saw the need to combat the epidemic increase of the mentally derail youths. In some countries, the youth are regarded as a minor sector of human existence and are not allowed to contribute their own quota towards the development of their countries.The youth are seen as a nobody in organizations, companies and associations. One of the definition of a youth is: the state of being young, therefore it will not be wrong to accredit that a primary school child, a secondary school child, and a greater number of university students are all youth and so every young person has his/her own sphere of life to contribute so as to create an enabling environment, promoting peace and stability wherever the young people find themselves.
Despite numerous challenges the young people face, they have done well so far with limited resources and encouragement granted to them. The youth of Nigeria have maintained partnership with government bodies like the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) to coordinate the programmes of the Millenium Development Goals ( MDG's) to make sure that the objectives of MDG's are completely achieved. One of the goals is to eradicate extreme poverty. Recntly, the United Nations in their statistics stated that Nigeria has reduced its poverty level by fifty percent, therefore kudos should be given to the youth for this success story. The youth have assisted in the sensitisation and the mobilization of their fellow youth to shun violence, terrorism and other social vices, because it is the young people that are used as agents to carry out this obnoxious acts which is detrimental to the lives of everyone. According to statistics, ninety percent of those involved in the " Boko Haram" terrorist group are the young people, thats why youths internationally, nationally, state and community level have mobilized their follow youths to shun insurgency.
Entrepreneurial training and capacity development is another locus which the youth have affected. They have been numerous entrepreneurial training and capacity development programmes marshalled out by the youth to combat the rising unemployment situation in our country. This capacity and entrepreneurial training have also help to deter the rate of crime such as insurgency as earlier mentioned.
All these are efforts put in place by the young people, but there would have been an increase in this positive strides if our youth are given the necessary support and encouragement. Thanks be to the government of the day for what they have done so far, but like Oliver Twist, the young people will continue to ask for more until they are satisfy.
The government and other organisations have a vast role to play in the modification of our young ones to make a different .the is need to re-invents ways of nurturing and engaging the youth such the will be no vacuum left when our fathers vacate their seats. Its is the responsibility of the government to create an awareness and sensitisation programme for the teaming youth. The youth should be entitled to political offices, as this is how true democracy will be demonstrated.sometimes I asked a question are youth really leaders of tomorrow, if yes that means a person wishing to rule the country tomorrow whether he or she is in the late sixties is youth, therefore the young people should stand up as a leader of today and not tomorrow.
In conclusion, the government and individual have their own part to play in the game of youth development for the betterment of our country, the youth should shun the " wait on government syndrome and stand up, work for theirselves . am always shock to see that seventy Percent of our today's youth are still seeking for job. The have refuse to go the way of our fathers. The men and women of the sixties were job creators and not job seekers. The age for a person as a youth should be clearly stated, because the youths are cheated of their rights by old men and women who claim to be still young. The ultimate advice to government is that the should try an allocates a greater percentage of the government budgets towards youth development.let me end with the words of Barack Obama, " if youth cannot trust their government to which its exist: to protects them and to promote their common welfare, then all else is gone".
The United Nations in their way of promoting equity and fairplay had set aside a day to celebrate the youth, this is the World Youth Day held in August every year. The year 2014 was not left out as the youth were celebrated with the theme "Youth and their mental health".Looking at the background of this theme, the youth contribute greatly to the increasing mentally derailed people in our society and the United Nation organization saw the need to combat the epidemic increase of the mentally derail youths. In some countries, the youth are regarded as a minor sector of human existence and are not allowed to contribute their own quota towards the development of their countries.The youth are seen as a nobody in organizations, companies and associations. One of the definition of a youth is: the state of being young, therefore it will not be wrong to accredit that a primary school child, a secondary school child, and a greater number of university students are all youth and so every young person has his/her own sphere of life to contribute so as to create an enabling environment, promoting peace and stability wherever the young people find themselves.
Despite numerous challenges the young people face, they have done well so far with limited resources and encouragement granted to them. The youth of Nigeria have maintained partnership with government bodies like the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) to coordinate the programmes of the Millenium Development Goals ( MDG's) to make sure that the objectives of MDG's are completely achieved. One of the goals is to eradicate extreme poverty. Recntly, the United Nations in their statistics stated that Nigeria has reduced its poverty level by fifty percent, therefore kudos should be given to the youth for this success story. The youth have assisted in the sensitisation and the mobilization of their fellow youth to shun violence, terrorism and other social vices, because it is the young people that are used as agents to carry out this obnoxious acts which is detrimental to the lives of everyone. According to statistics, ninety percent of those involved in the " Boko Haram" terrorist group are the young people, thats why youths internationally, nationally, state and community level have mobilized their follow youths to shun insurgency.
Entrepreneurial training and capacity development is another locus which the youth have affected. They have been numerous entrepreneurial training and capacity development programmes marshalled out by the youth to combat the rising unemployment situation in our country. This capacity and entrepreneurial training have also help to deter the rate of crime such as insurgency as earlier mentioned.
All these are efforts put in place by the young people, but there would have been an increase in this positive strides if our youth are given the necessary support and encouragement. Thanks be to the government of the day for what they have done so far, but like Oliver Twist, the young people will continue to ask for more until they are satisfy.
The government and other organisations have a vast role to play in the modification of our young ones to make a different .the is need to re-invents ways of nurturing and engaging the youth such the will be no vacuum left when our fathers vacate their seats. Its is the responsibility of the government to create an awareness and sensitisation programme for the teaming youth. The youth should be entitled to political offices, as this is how true democracy will be demonstrated.sometimes I asked a question are youth really leaders of tomorrow, if yes that means a person wishing to rule the country tomorrow whether he or she is in the late sixties is youth, therefore the young people should stand up as a leader of today and not tomorrow.
In conclusion, the government and individual have their own part to play in the game of youth development for the betterment of our country, the youth should shun the " wait on government syndrome and stand up, work for theirselves . am always shock to see that seventy Percent of our today's youth are still seeking for job. The have refuse to go the way of our fathers. The men and women of the sixties were job creators and not job seekers. The age for a person as a youth should be clearly stated, because the youths are cheated of their rights by old men and women who claim to be still young. The ultimate advice to government is that the should try an allocates a greater percentage of the government budgets towards youth development.let me end with the words of Barack Obama, " if youth cannot trust their government to which its exist: to protects them and to promote their common welfare, then all else is gone".
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