Youth Minister, Olaopa Lead National Rebirth Talks At CLTC Conference

As portion of activities marking Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary, the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande; president of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, and Future Africa CEO, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, volition connected Tuesday pb conversations with Nigerian youths connected rebuilding nationalist values and strengthening civic responsibility.

The conference, organised by the Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre (CLTC) successful collaboration with the United Nations Inter-Agency Group connected Youth (UNIAGY) and the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), is themed “Nigeria @ 65: Reviving Values and Volunteerism among the Youth.”

Set against the backdrop of Nigeria’s hunt for unity and spot successful governance, the league aims to rekindle the civilization of service, volunteerism and assemblage enactment among the country’s younker population.

According to the Head of Information Unit of CLTC, Chinwe Nduka, successful a connection issued connected Thursday, the inaugural was “a telephone for young Nigerians to clasp service, volunteerism, and civic work arsenic pathways to rebuilding nationalist values and strengthening the societal fabric.”

One of the large highlights volition beryllium the expansive finale of the Youth Leadership Debate, an NYFF inaugural that gives young Nigerians a level to articulate bold ideas and contiguous their imaginativeness for a stronger, much cohesive nation.

Also expected to talk are immoderate of the country’s astir salient younker advocates, including Samson Itodo (Executive Director, YIAGA Africa), Rotimi Olawale (Executive Director, Youth Hub Africa), Elisabeth Agbiti-Douglas (Director, NYFF), Mrs. Abiodun Essiet (SSA to the President connected Community Engagement – North Central), Hon. Mohammed Abba Isa (SSA to the President connected Special Needs and Equal Opportunities), Dr. Titilope Gbadamosi (SA to the President connected Youth Initiatives), Surayyah Ahmad (Founding Partner, Sabou Capital), Aishat Dahiru (Youth Focal Point, IOM Nigeria), Rafiat Atanda (Communications Specialist, UNODC), and Rex Stephen Ojochegbe, a pupil of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University.

Supported by the Federal Ministry of Youth Development and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the league reflects a increasing statement that Nigeria’s translation depends connected empowering its young colonisation to instrumentality ownership of the nation’s future.

Participants are expected from universities, youth-led organisations and community-based groups nationwide, portion virtual attendance options person been provided to guarantee inclusivity and wider participation.

With a lineup of dynamic speakers and thought-provoking sessions, organisers accidental the CLTC league volition not lone people Nigeria’s Independence milestone but besides acceptable the code for a procreation determined to rebuild the federation done integrity, innovation and service.