Nigerian youth have called for more investments in rural economic productivity ventures as a step to mitigating the trend of unnecessary rural – urban migration.
Research findings have shown that rural – urban migration has been associated with vices such as increased prostitution in urban centres, increase in squalor settlements, poor nutrition, pollution-related health conditions and communicable diseases and poor sanitation amongst others.
To achieve this, the youth are calling for the establishment of at least one youth economic hub in every Senatorial Zone of the country.
Speaking in Abuja over weekend, at an occasion to mark this year’s International Youth Day organised by a group, Rising up for a United Nigeria (RUN) in partnership with Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative (EUYI), Mr. Solomon Adodo, urged Nigerian youth to look beyond the problems and challenges facing the country and contribute their quota for economic growth.
The theme of this year’s celebration is “Green Skills for Youth: Towards a Sustainable World.”
Adodo who is the national convener of RUN explained that the theme of the 2023 Youth Day point to the fact that young people must be equipped with new skills, innovations, ideas and tools to the end of global sustainability.
He added :“…because of the Nigerian peculiarity, we decided to zero the theme to the focal point or localized theme of: “Identifying Opportunities from Challenges: Exploring Vistas for Rapid Economic Development.
“And this is to say that we recognise that there are challenges, and those are inevitable. But rather than agonising or complaining, the opportunities inherent in those challenges should be harnessed and deployed for rapid economic growth.”
