JCI Urges Redirection Of Youths’ Empowerment

Junior Chambers International Nigeria (JCIN) has appealed to the federal government to take advantage of the current economic situation in harnessing the resilience, innovations, as well as the passions of the country’s youths to build a sustainable future for the country.

JCIN said the current economic crisis in the country has presented the federal, states and local governments with the needed “unique opportunity” to reimagine the future of the youths through the various existing skills acquisition and empowerment programmes that will guarantee better living standards for her teeming youths.

Speaking at the 39th convention and Investiture of the 49th president of the JCIN Abeokuta chapter, the national president of the organisation, Attairu Bala Abdulahi declared that Nigeria is currently at a crossroads of an unprecedented economic crisis which has forced up the migration of the country’s “talented pool” to other developed nations.

Lamenting what he described as “far-reaching and impacting” repercussions on Nigeria, Attahiru appealed to the federal government to redress the trend, which he said has brought up and glorified the “japa” syndrome amongst the nation’s youths by offering alluring skills acquisition and empowerment programmes that are difficult to resist.

At the event themed “Navigating The Economic Crisis: Empowering Youths For Resilience and Innovation”, the JCIN president said a multifaceted approach remain available for the federal, state and local governments, among which he said included engaging them in decision making, stressing that such will make the youths explore alternative solutions to running away from the country.