The Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, has
announced the Ministry’s withdrawal of recognition for existing Youth
Council Organisations and ordered that a new registration that will
strictly be in line with the National Youth Policy be put in place.
Dalung also affirmed that that the age bracket of 18 to 35 years will be strictly enforced for all eligible members.
The Minister gave the directive while addressing a delegation consisting of Board of Trustees of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, some past presidents and representatives of the members of Management Committee of the Council who, called to pay him a courtesy visit in his office at Abuja.
He explained that the directive has become imperative in order to restore sanity into the National Youth Council of Nigeria, which has been fragmented for some time now, a development that has resulted in six people laying claim to the leadership of the Council.
Before dropping the bombshell, Dalung had expressed his disdain at the way and manner the ideals and virtues, which used to endear the organisation to the public, have been eroded, giving way to blatant pursuit of personal interest and unabashed materialism by the present day self-acclaimed leaders of Council at the expense of Nigeria Youth.
Dalung promised that the Board of Trustees, which he described as the custodian of the Council, will play a big role in the new reform meant to restore the Council back to its former glory.
The Minister also advocated the return to the Ministry of all interventionist programmes targeted at the development of youth whether in the area of agriculture, health, micro-finance and job empowerment for effective coordination and mainstreaming, arguing that the present practice where such programmes are scattered in different Ministries has not yielded the desired result and that warehousing such interventionist programmes in the appropriate Ministry is key to realising the objectives.
Earlier on, the leader of the delegation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of NYCN, Chief Macaulay Oma Azugbene, lamented the situation where “the Council has had to contend with leadership crisis which has resulted in its inability to effectively play its role and ensure that the Youths benefit from the dividend of democracy”.
Azugbene also lamented the infiltration of the Council by selfish, shameless and materialistic characters “who are ready to throw virtues to the dogs once there is monetary benefit to derive”.
Azugbene later appealed to the Federal Government for the resuscitation of the statutory subventions to Voluntary Youth Organisations to enable them resume proper tanning of the youth through capacity building and leadership orientation.
The Chairman of Broad of Trustees also called on government to appreciate past youth leaders through national honours, government appointments and patronage of their businesses.
Dalung also affirmed that that the age bracket of 18 to 35 years will be strictly enforced for all eligible members.
The Minister gave the directive while addressing a delegation consisting of Board of Trustees of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, some past presidents and representatives of the members of Management Committee of the Council who, called to pay him a courtesy visit in his office at Abuja.
He explained that the directive has become imperative in order to restore sanity into the National Youth Council of Nigeria, which has been fragmented for some time now, a development that has resulted in six people laying claim to the leadership of the Council.
Before dropping the bombshell, Dalung had expressed his disdain at the way and manner the ideals and virtues, which used to endear the organisation to the public, have been eroded, giving way to blatant pursuit of personal interest and unabashed materialism by the present day self-acclaimed leaders of Council at the expense of Nigeria Youth.
Dalung promised that the Board of Trustees, which he described as the custodian of the Council, will play a big role in the new reform meant to restore the Council back to its former glory.
The Minister also advocated the return to the Ministry of all interventionist programmes targeted at the development of youth whether in the area of agriculture, health, micro-finance and job empowerment for effective coordination and mainstreaming, arguing that the present practice where such programmes are scattered in different Ministries has not yielded the desired result and that warehousing such interventionist programmes in the appropriate Ministry is key to realising the objectives.
Earlier on, the leader of the delegation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of NYCN, Chief Macaulay Oma Azugbene, lamented the situation where “the Council has had to contend with leadership crisis which has resulted in its inability to effectively play its role and ensure that the Youths benefit from the dividend of democracy”.
Azugbene also lamented the infiltration of the Council by selfish, shameless and materialistic characters “who are ready to throw virtues to the dogs once there is monetary benefit to derive”.
He also lamented that “we have had some persons declaring themselves presidents of their imagined councils without submitting themselves to due process of election at a duly organised National Youth Congress”.
He said part of the problem in the Council is traceable to the advent of “brief case voluntary youth organisations which parades Certificate of Registration from the Corporate Affairs Commission without members”.
Azugbene later appealed to the Federal Government for the resuscitation of the statutory subventions to Voluntary Youth Organisations to enable them resume proper tanning of the youth through capacity building and leadership orientation.
The Chairman of Broad of Trustees also called on government to appreciate past youth leaders through national honours, government appointments and patronage of their businesses.
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