Stop waiting for govt, build your future, minister tells youths
The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has urged Nigerian youths to stop waiting for government connections or perfect conditions and take advantage of available opportunities to build their future. Olawande, who spoke in Abuja on Thursday at the launch of No More Future: Why Waiting Is Over, What to Build Instead, authored by Christopher […]
Nigerian Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has urged young people to stop relying on government connections or waiting for the right conditions to build their futures, as he launched a book authored by Christopher Olusa. The minister argued that Nigeria's most valuable asset is its young people, not its natural resources.
He emphasized that the government, under President Bola Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda, has been providing skills, capital, and opportunities to youths. Over seven million young Nigerians have been trained, five million jobs created, and 239,726 youths equipped with digital and practical skills through the Nigerian Youth Academy (NiYA).
Through NiYA StartUp, 200 business owners received N1 million and another 200 received N500,000 grants each. The minister also highlighted plans to reposition the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as a platform for skills acquisition, entrepreneurship, and productive engagement. The book's author, Christopher Olusa, urged young Nigerians to reject the culture of waiting and to actively create their future.
The book's reviewer, Prof. Jerry Ugokwe, noted that the book challenges the notion of the future as something to be passively received, instead emphasizing the need for active creation.
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