NYCN urges youths to support Tinubu, shun division

National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has called on youths to support the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration. NYCN’s President, Solomon Adodo, in a New Year address, also called on youths to shun divisive tendencies aimed at undermining unity and national cohesion.

The youth leader, particularly, charged youths to kick against those he termed anarchists and anti-patriotic elements, who seek to divide Nigerians along religious, regional or whatever contrived lines of attrition.

He said: “Let us stand united in our vision for a better and brighter Nigeria, where opportunities abound, and prosperity flourishes for all. It is imperative to note that Mr President believes in you and relies on your partnership to build the Nigeria of our collective dreams.”

He explained that the coming National Youth Conference would provide the enabling environment to address the challenges faced by youths in the country, adding that under the visionary leadership of the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, the conference would not just be a gathering for speeches, but a birth place of innovative enterprises that would trigger rapid productivity and job creation in the country.

Adodo maintained that hard decisions taken by President Tinubu had paved the way for youth productivity and wealth creation in the New Year. He cited the doubling of aggregate government revenues to over N9.1 trillion, the reduction in revenue spent on debt service from 97 per cent to 68 per cent, alongside clearance of $5 billion in outstanding foreign exchange obligations, resurgence of the oil and gas industry to robust activities and increase in oil production to about 1.61 million barrels per day as some of the milestones recorded in year 2024.

Among others, he listed the signing of Foreign Direct Investment deals worth billions of dollars, the launch of the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) initiative to ease the burden of petrol price on the masses and distribution of one million conversion kits to commercial vehicles to aid mass transit, reduction in transportation costs by approximately 60 per cent, establishment of the student loan scheme and processing of N45.6 billion for student payments as other achievements recorded last year.