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"The Work of the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Tackling Youth Unemployment and Militarization"
Speaker:
Sunday Dare, Minister for Youth and Sports Development in Nigeria.
Contacts:
Jacob Olupona
Olupona@fas.harvard.edu
Darren Kew
Darren.kew@umb.edu
Co-sponsored by UMass Boston's Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD).
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Abstract:
The Youth demographic is one of the greatest assets any nation can rely on for sustainable development. The Nigerian Government recognizes her young women and men as vital resources whose prospects are inextricably tied to the country’s development and progress. Conscious of the high rate of unemployment among the youth, the Nigerian Government, through the ministry of Youth and Sports, have initiated various programs and adopted a multi-intervention strategy to ensure that the youth are supported to realize their full potentials, irrespective of their ethnic, religious, and socio-economic background.
Nigeria has made the paradigm shift from mere youth empowerment to youth investment in tandem with youth development orientation.The Commitment of the Nigerian government to all round youth development equally involves creating laws to ensure inclusiveness in governance, peace, and security. To build Peace and eradicate the Militarization of Nigerian youths, it is important to keep such youth meaningfully engaged. A positively engaged youth means such a youth can fend for her/himself and is not idle enough to be lured, enticed, or conscripted into other vices that eventuallycause insecurity. Such engagements remain a focus of the Ministry for Youth and Sports development and these moves have yielded results, even as we hope for greater results.
Speaker Bio:
H.E. Sunday Dare is an award-winning investigative reporter, multimedia journalist and media trainer with more than two decades of experience in the United States and Nigeria. He spent eight years at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., where he headed the Hausa Service and was responsible for broadcasts to more than 21 million listeners in West Africa. Before joining VOA, Dare was general editor of two of Nigeria’s independent weekly news magazines, The News and Tempo, based in Lagos. Dare was a journalism fellow at New York University in 1998 and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2000. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and co-founder of a monthly magazine called News Digest International, based in Lagos. He was formerly the Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). He also served as the Chief of Staff / Special Adviser on media to former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Currently, he is the Honorable Minister for Youth and Sports Development in Nigeria.
