Youth Education

Finally in 1960, Nigeria’s population was approximately € 50,000,000. Currently, we estimate, 158 million, which means that 120 million Nigerians aged 43 years. If these 60 years on approximately € 38,000,000, this means the age group 18-43 years are the majority. Is approximately € 110,000,000. Registered voters are currently 130 million after the Electoral Commission of Nigeria, well over half of eligible voters was 18 years and older. The crucial question is: where the rest of the potential voters that the 110 million registered voters, only less than 80 million voted in 2007?

The harsh reality can not be saved, as more than 142 million people by the Nigerian law, voting rights, with the exception of the ex-prisoner and the franchisees.

Then the following ethical call for proposals, submitted figuratively:

o 20 million young people aged 18 and older have no identity cards automatically eliminated from the voting process.
o A significant number of them have no birth certificates, so they do not exist.
o The majority (34.3%) of those who vote are indifferent to the whole process. They believe that their vote would make no difference.
o For young people to vote vote, the majority (32 million) for the wrong reasons as the election of their ethnic groups, even if they do not deserve the choice of those who were more bent on money-peer pressure, and often pressure from his family for the leader as a special vote en bloc.
o shows a high percentage of young people on the periphery, because they do not know how important it is a political party, especially in mainstream politics, important decisions have to make a nation.
o Civic education is not yet fully integrated and emphasized that young people, the great leader and deserves a chance.

As for these young people in ordinary political life, they are as follows:

O patronage, where party members can not finish the main rooms for the youth a crucial role in the political parties play.
O Lack of clear political party, ideology and system of values that the functioning of the party and the conduct of its members without discrimination, particularly on the age and gender.
O Ethnicity in which the membership of most political parties by the ethnicity of the founders of the parties or persons, who are financing is dictated. This caused chaos and misery for many young people who are barred from participating in or advancing a crucial role. The passage of loyalty, distrust, corruption and vertical solidarity determines who gets what in the political parties.
o Gender discrimination has a negative influence on young girls in parties, whose participation is limited and had ignored their contributions. The culture of violence, to start the mud and slander has discouraged many qualified young women to participate fully in political life.
O Lack of resources, in particular the financing of political activities and to maintain the necessary mechanisms.

Regarding the employment process, as the political process and the structure model of development, young people with the highest unemployment in many respects are the most vulnerable social devastation caused by unemployment and poverty. At the same time they are the promise of the future, and failure to invest in the young generation of constraints on the great potential for future development. Whether it’s investment in the creation of decent work for young people increases the efficiency and reduces the demand for social services, or whether peer-to-models of HIV / AIDS, peer support or assistance in creating food security for their youth Community has shown the research that investing in youth, young people on safe and healthy communities offers

Mobilization and strategy for the development of young

The Federation and his group of directors of Amnesty and other stakeholders such as NGOs, CLO and other private donors are a multifaceted strategy based on the recognition of the ongoing work of the key issues for young people key to the city: economic development, urban peace and conflict research, HIV / AIDS and environmental degradation. These four areas have become the largest leverage to resolve conflict without end national and regional level, both religious and economic motives, 73% of young people committed. The heart of the strategy of the SC is the recognition that young people the opportunity to have really engaged in urban development programs. The SC through various initiatives for the development of youth is a vehicle to mobilize resources to initiate the most marginalized young people and to help support youth programs.

Strategy 1

Creation of urban centers as resources for youth that support youth initiatives led directly to development issues such as youth and rehabilitation Development, a program of the various state and local government in Nigeria, which is specially set up obviously in the Delta of Nigeria, West , North and East geopolitical zones of the country. The goal of these centers is a space for youth to youth-led programs in the field of economic development, to organize violence prevention, and delivery of education and HIV / AIDS. This strategy is also described below.

Strategy 2

The education of young people as peacemakers: The World Youth Report 2009 shows that the majority of the war occurred in developing countries, particularly in Africa, where about 200,000 soldiers 10 years and 24 risk their life in the context of armed conflict should be of an adult. Even in countries affected by armed conflicts not, young people are often abused, was political in the arena. While their energy and enthusiasm are powerful tools for social or political issues, they are also vulnerable to fraud and abuse, which often disturbing results. The youth must be involved in strategies to prevent violence, not only coping strategies of conflict. Young people can take the initiative. There is also a strategy for implementation through cooperation between federal agencies (MYA) and U-boats, the local youth organizations and national NGOs and local authorities on the establishment of an effective and sustainable focused models of urban youth and employment in Nigeria.

The plans are now available to assist in the development of other regions and states in the country, as for its implementation in the Niger Delta with the following objectives:

The purpose of the project SC youth centers:

- Promotion of partnerships with stakeholders in the delivery of youth development;
- Amendments to improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of young people;
- To use the educational needs, socio-economic, recreational, emotional and psychological needs of young people in an integrated manner;
- To encourage young people to have more responsibility for development;
- The leadership and mentoring for young people.

Six areas of intervention:

1st Employment and Entrepreneurship: To strengthen the capacity of youth, effective in the reduction of urban poverty through training and provision of employment opportunities in self employment, formal and informal sectors.

2nd Governance and Development: To improve the participation of young people to better governance through the promotion of youth participation has increased in the municipalities, especially those relating to youth work.

3rd Health: provision of services for the prevention and solution of problems of reproductive health in young people through information, training, education on reproductive health, counseling and referral services.

4th to establish communication and information: In order mechanisms for effective communication and dissemination of information to youth, youth organizations and other partners in youth work.

5th Environment and Resource Management: Strengthening the participation of young people in protecting and improving the environment by encouraging their participation in the environmental justice and governance initiatives.

Requires financial support:

- Establish resource centers by satellite in informal settlements
- To identify and initiate programs to create jobs, programs, micro-credit
- Enable more health services are offered free of charge
- Creation of networks and partnerships locally and internationally
- Enter the library of books and information
- Provision of computers for office work and internet access
- Training for use in place of mentoring programs, including global monitoring and
- Establish a Trust Youth / Small Grants Program for Entrepreneurship

This partnership is built to one another on best practices, how to learn the many challenges facing youth today in urban communities to address, to systems that enable them to make sustainable decisions and the intergenerational transmission of values.

The goal of the Youth in Nation Building Development

A nation fits continue, a feather in his hat, and the process of their development, when his ambitious young, agile, strong and masculine are guided in the right direction. The youth of a nation are powerful. They are agile and tend to work, but it is generally believed that young people do not give the desired results for lack of proper guidance.

Therefore, all that they do not, this does not comply to the satisfaction of the needs of the nation. Under these conditions, talk about the well being of youth in nation building and human capital development is meaningless until that priority is given to their program, that is to articulate in fashion.

The fact is that carve after independence, successive generations not to take further action on the right track, simply due to the common innocent poor youth in the government’s measures to certain future decisions in terms of continuity. The moral question is how a nation can develop if the young people, those who are willing to accept any job they can imagine, but intense, he will, if not managed properly?

It is finally to a chaotic situation, as we are facing, such as leading questions of youth unrest in the Niger Delta and other parts of Nigeria and Africa. The society is divided and trapped in the ear-web of problems. Personal interest has become dominant, corruption is endemic and alarms, which are the most is that the national character on the decline.

To support this widespread problem of youth unrest and their role in nation building in the region, it is necessary to the development of human capital whole. Because the development includes the production and distribution of its products and the development and use of human capabilities. To encourage young people to a long and healthy life, it is necessary to intellectual awakening and socio-economic rights, which articulates a feeling her way to navigate access resources for decent living and their involvement in nation building. This is where investment in human resources, so here at young people of the Niger Delta Development, under the Federal Youth “nation-building operation” strategy is absolutely of the utmost importance and emergency. There is no profit is to say, however, that greater productive capacity of young people than all other forms of wealth as a whole, this is perhaps the heart of this legend.

In my previous article on the lunch of the Directorate of Edo State Youth and social mobilization, a part quoted by the newspaper as follows Featured:

The problem of youth unrest is a mirage, until recently, when a coalition of civil liberties organization, NGOs, governments and other international organizations were concerned about the quality of the youth of the world looking at how they develop together and sincerely deal with pain and disproportionate spur youth in the government and the apartheid nation-building, as in the Niger Delta and in other parts of the country in terms of militancy, sectarian and religious violence, illiteracy, unemployment, exclusion, etc.

Heads of State and Government in general, several activists and young people can not keep the ace on the way to solve the economic, socio-political and environmental Niger Delta and his young, so here. However, if the regional leaders and the representative organization of the different really sincere in the peace process, can and should, at a vacuum in economic life and survival of the hegemony of the Federal government – Nigeria. To facilitate the Youth Capital stable and fast, and human development, it is necessary to address the following points:

a. Provision of adequate mechanisms and infrastructure to support the initiative of the new capital and sustainable development.
b. Starting a youth program of interactive sessions and a mental model in the debate on issues such as youth unrest, economic and social development of youth in nation building, a program that reflects on the youth.
C. Discuss and formulate programs to fight corruption, fiscal irresponsibility between political representatives and inefficiency in government, and weak social security systems.
d. solution of raising the status skinny youth in areas such as hunger, illiteracy, unemployment and economic marginalization should be addressed, and programs should be implemented in various areas to participate in these problems.

With the above paradigm, the various indicators established to its mandates full capital development of youth in ending unrest, militancy, violence and all forms of crisis in the delta region of Niger, both internally motivated and, nationally claimed or a kind of “international conspiracy to oil. Although it is also found that the origin and impact of conflicts of youth in the Niger Delta in Nigeria and elsewhere because of the high incidence of disturbances of the state in time to meet certain economic, political and sociological effects and youth is reflected in the development. National leaders, rather than focus more on the federal process that brings about the balanced development throughout the country. National leaders is increasingly in paraphelia federal structure, which eliminates the concept of peace-building, and the development of to give youth in nation building.

The inability of the states of Niger Delta to fulfill their primary social obligation, including youth organizations and other supplies for the socio-economic and maintaining internal order and its undisguised policy to mismanagement, Showing a total failure of the process of national leadership and structure of the inner- and outdoors.

Even if young people of the Niger Delta is replaced in whole or in part and excluded hinge of the historic causes of youth unrest, which comprises 96% of the participation of youth in the Niger Delta region is still caused by the antecedent of greed, political ambition and the cause individual. This is of course focusing on the disagreement, that the political leaders has shaken the region, particularly for a lack of commitment of various organizations in the politics of the region, are the leaders not accountable and transparent, or easy, militant groups have difficulties to a common goal, vision and ideology in the region and the national economic disadvantage over time, which makes the crisis seem even more complex and dangerous tactics.

Give a hand to the younger generation to raise their morale will enable them to revive the national character again and the process of raising national. It is our duty, and when we are ready, regardless, we are certainly disregarding our duty towards society and the nation. Under such circumstances we have no right to initiate a peace process, because if we can not see, people see us, so peace is impossible in others.

encourage young people to build a nation is something that focuses on the character, and if our politicians despise the government in these highlights, it is obvious they enjoy the violence, and the current national quagmire.

YOUTH AND NETWORK nation building

From the above analogy and generosity, the reason for the local organizing committee, NGOs and public participation in the relief, to conflicts in the region between the activists and multinational corporations on the one hand the end, the government and activists / leaders of other youth organizations and the coalition of the willing for more to prevent crises in the region, home to the leaders and multinational oil companies, representatives of interest groups in the peace process, the government, the organization of civil liberty and the international community to another end, is to bring violence to an end and underdevelopment in the region. State and demonstrate the initiative of the government amnesty is a welcome development and should be adopted in the region of all parties concerned to resume dialogue.

Political independence is important for the collection of the nation, but this is not the end. It will be quite a task on the economic and social objectives. Probably the political independence has been regarded as the ultimate goal. Therefore, the current generation of young people no specific instructions in accordance with the result that they were not on their obligations to society or their nation. To prevent further deterioration of the situation, it is necessary to guide young people in the right direction, so that it can interfere with the task of completing the unfinished process of raising their people.

Responsibility for the preparation of the context and the creation of favorable conditions in this area is among the intellectuals and leaders of society. But if the leaders of personal pride and ego are not aware of these facts, we will continue to engage in issues concerned slaves.

In addition, the government, NGOs and CLOs tried to mediate and facilitate the peace process in the region through projects in several Millennium Development Goals, sustainable initiative with the municipalities in the region and with young negotiate leaders, warlords, who, moved because of lack of cooperation and the agenda were themselves competing ethnic, religious and political issues and not because of the situation of their people (Asakitikpi, 2007). These are the reasons why any form of peace in the region, why the amnesty initiative of the federal government and real actors in the Niger Delta will not work if the leaders with a forum for genuine peace initiatives in accordance with government plans for the development do not come together by consensus.

Asakitikpi went even further:

“The title, Alhaji Dokubo applies as indicating that” we must control our resources, “he suggests – Dokubo is not a fight for the rights of their people to take control of their resources have, but for individuals as powerful him.

Going Asakitikpi analogy, it is said that if there is no real youth leaders, other than famous people like Isaac Boro Adak, Professor Ake and tastes, as some of the freedom fighters are claimed activists (MEND) and co, together youth leaders and their different management structures do not mean on the measure unacceptable. Literally, we are all aware that the episode fueling some of these leaders to financial glory, and criminal activities of the federal and state levels to transform individual companies. We must quickly return to the distinction between legitimate governance and a host system, which terrorized in operation for some residents their community who were in the way judges and legal. These leaders of the militants who preach the irrelevance of all amnesty today to build the foundations of language and abuse contributed militarized economic history of the military regime, the inability of a decent society in the region. Does not work with respect to the rationality of State and Government will be refuted in the region if they were in the vandalism of good moral and economic development of host communities involved in a way represent the real trend that bypass people and play tricks with multinational corporations and government officials suspect? In my opinion, Ernest, the leaders, the amnesty initiative, the federal government reject the real terror in the region, and they face the full force of the law.

This is indicative of Alhaji Dokubo Asari’s recent activities at the national level by the crisis in the region and a feeling for teachable incurrent and understanding of the dynamics and sincerity as a mythology in the depth of the consolidation of peace and initiative of youth in the region. The purpose of this exercise is for both the federal government, multinational companies, NGOs, CLO and militant groups, a balance to the real people in the area of devastation happened to them, rested for many years a deterioration in the economic marginalization of political, economic deprivation and terror barricade on to eliminate them from military operations of the Federal Government in its efforts to the militants and the guerrillas to them by the militants.

Thanks to nation building, youth empowerment as a whole is likely to lead to branched development of human capital, which again reflect the tendency for antisocial behavior that reduce social norms, ethics and emotions, values. Youth Development is expressed not to increase the capacity in terms of knowledge and skills in mission statements of organizations as “today, but also have access to human capital so that their livelihoods could be supported and be judged. A decent society, where there There is a large gap between rich and poor creates the conditions for despair and questioning of social values as individuals will do everything possible to avoid poverty by all means. This should be through the creation of a forum, these shortcomings of society, as the concentration of government on the development of youth in nation-building address shall be held, because they are the leaders of tomorrow, and are hand-d work today and in the very near future.

Positive Youth Development

The design project was started, partly explain why a “change in approach to the way we do the issues of youth in this country has been endorsed. We will focus on how different views have converged to the area of provide youth positive development in recent Nigerian political system centered. With the “twenty-first century” discovery of childhood and adolescence as special times when children should be encouraged to learn and grow, the company has a greater sense of responsibility for the care of their youth.

The rise in juvenile delinquency and youth concerns in trouble in 2007 at the beginning of the Yar’Adua administration has led to important initiatives of federal funds to tackle these problems, which packed together and begin to address youth outreach initiative of several reminders and national identity. These trends accelerated in 2008 and the national rates of poverty, economic deterioration, and other government measures, the damage really regrettable a role in the violence, played, therefore, turns building a nation. In the summary presented by (Idemudia Nicolas et al (2006) Essay on the Nigerian Society Politics:)

Again, looks impressive gains in the first half of 1995 – 1996 by researchers towing mainly American researchers;

The changes in the socialization of the forces that historically have the development of children stoked – especially families – require reconceptualization of the school and community practices, the family to support them in their task of bringing up their children successfully (Hernandez, 1995 by Weissberg & Greenberg, 1997: 5).

Each youth development and education should focus on the promotion of participation and leadership of the Nigerian youth and youth policy in the development process of nation-building goal. The aim should therefore be to highlight the value that youth can play in the efforts to build a region with stable democracies, sustainable economies and fair society. Through alliances with public and private sector, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and youth, the government and all parties should focus on the participation and leadership, business development to technology and services community at the end:

Young people in their personal development are involved and that their communities support youth development and participation as an integral part of the development, integration of youth development and participation throughout the nation Affairs Department Operations young people and the promotion of inter-organizational partnerships for youth and participation in advance.

Although difficult to implement at first hand, but with systematic efforts to apply the update, the Government through the research material, with emphasis on issues that will prove as effective as any other setting can supply Find out about the campaign strategy for the education of youth.

These activities should include:

(1) Youth and Capacity Building: The building of capacity, develop the creation of educational initiatives and projects, includes the organizational, technical, entrepreneurial and leadership skills of young people so that they can be involved in the process of development as subjects of this process . Facilitate communication among the youth in the form of a regional network of more than 13.5 million young executives and entrepreneurs across the social Nigeria actively engaged in socio-economic activities that serve as agents of development in their communities should have a government at all levels of investment planning.