Voice Of The Youth

2ND (NYRGC) Theme: Realigning The Cultural Competence Of The Nigerian Youth Towards Sustainable Development: Special Focus On Professionalism, Religion and Ethnicity. The 2nd (NYRGC) is now officially open for partnership with youth leaders, young professionals, unemployed graduates, student leaders, civil society organizations and NGOs in a joint effort towards achieving a greater and prosperous Nigeria  through youth development, unity and active participation. The National Youth Reform Conference was initiated by the Re-Orientation Advocates of Nigeria (RAN) in May 2015. In a bid to unite Nigerian youth and consolidate various youth development efforts to collectively address challenges that pose threat to the youth in Nigeria. The initiative was adopted by various youth Organizations under the auspices of the National Youth Reform Group and agreed to make the conference a quarterly meeting to review youth development activities in the country and forge a common purpose on

Every responsible government must take youth development with great seriousness,because the youth serves as a good measure extent to which the country can Produce as well as sustain itself. A nation without a Progressive,dynamic,enterprising,innovative and informed youth sector cannot strive in the global terrain of development and progress. Such a nation is already dead,hopeless,doomed and far behind. Such a country is nothing but a recycling van of old. Ideas with no cont emporary relevance. Nigerian youth today faces challenges ranging from unemployment,poor education,insecurity,violence,corruption and all forms of social vices that call for pragmatic solutions. If the situation is not addressed via pragmatic re-orientation and mindset revolution of the new generation,there is Even a Danger of Escalation ,at a high political,economic,social and security cost to our country... We have shown that we can achieve success even in the face of great challenges.How

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has said the pro-poor programmes of his administration which include school feeding, planting of economic trees, and waste collection, are expected to create 200,000 jobs. Addressing stakeholders at the General Hassan Katsina House, Kaduna, on Saturday during the budget Town Hall meeting, el-rufai in his speech entitled ‘Putting the people first: Back to Budget Realism,’ said he would always put the people first in all his actions. el-Rufai told the stakeholders that the meeting was held to deliberate on the proposed 2016 budget size of about N166bn, comprising N104bn capital and N62bn recurrent components before formal presentation to the state House of Assembly next month. He said, “Major highlights of the budget proposals; the 2016 budget moves away from funding government to providing infrastructure and services to citizens. It restores the 60:40 ratio in favour of capital expenditure. This is in keeping with our agenda to expand acce

“AN EMPOWERED YOUTH IS THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA”. The Nigerian society is highly heterogeneous and this makes it extremely complex. It`s complex diversity sometime s makes it difficult for us to hold ourselves together as a united whole. Forging a sense of national cohesion is the responsibility of all citizens both home and abroad and it requires deliberate decisive policies that would engender a high sense of national pride and patriotism. We need deliberate policies which will ensure the holistic empowerment of all young persons to develop a strong community and nation. We need youths who are highly educated and enlightened to play key roles to build the Nigeria of our dream. We need to develop a critical mass of youths who would cultivate the absolute dedication and allegiance to Nigeria regardless of one`s ethnicity, religion or social class. The authorities of our nation must be firm in dealing with acts that seek to undermine the country`s unity and stability so that citize