Politics
ACTION Democratic Party (ADP) has urged the Federal Government to prioritize youth development and tackle the infrastructure deficit in the education sector for sustainable growth.
Mr Yabagi Sani, ADP National Chairman, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Sani urged the government to focus on the dilapidated facilities in the education sector and create enabling environment for entrepreneurship and employment.
“As the world marks youths day, Action Democratic Party (ADP) congratulates young Nigerians for weathering the storm of unemployment and insecurity.
“Nigerian youths have excelled in diverse areas of endeavour like sports, engineering, medicine, literature and have brought glory to the fatherland in spite of the numerous challenges they face.
“For decades, the youth have been deprived of good governance, government upon government have failed to give adequate consideration for the needs of the youth.
“Apart from dilapidated facilities, our educational institutions experience constant lockout, compounding the frustrations of the young people,” he said.
He called on President Tinubu’s led administration to give the youth the needed support to excel on all platforms.
He said that there was a need for the Tinubu-led administration to embark on a total overhaul of the education system, to prepare the youth for a sustainable global transition.
“Today, the shift is towards an environmentally sustainable and climate-friendly world and this is critical not only for responding to the global climate crisis but also for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“A successful transition towards a greener world depends on the development of green skills in the population.
He said green skills were knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live, develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society.
Sani said it was only when the education sector was revived that the country’s education could be functional for the youth to be out of the huge unemployment crisis threatening the country.
He also said that the government needed to tackle insecurity and build trust and sustainable peace for the coexistence and welfare of the youth.
Sani said young Nigerians must be pulled away from religious and ethnic biases that always put the country into turmoil.(NAN)
August 13, 2023 @ 14:00 GMT|
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