FULafia V-C calls for enabling environment for youth devt

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Professor Shehu Abdul Rahman, has called on governments, at all levels, and key stakeholders to provide resources and enabling environment for Nigerian youths to harness their potentials and develop.

Abdul Rahman made the call on the occasion of the 2021 Nasarawa State Peace and Security Summit orgarnised by the National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN) at the Ta’al Conference Hotel in Lafia.

The NYCN is an umbrella body of youth associations that seeks youth development, engendering and promotion of peace, unity and tolerance in Nigeria, especially among youths.

In a paper he presented at the occasion entitled: “Youth and National Development,” Abdul Rahman, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of FULafia, Prof. Idris O.O Amali, posited: “The current national youth activities and national insecurity call for critical review with a view to stemming the tide of certain activities that tend to erode the Nigerian State.”

The vice-chancellor said that the alarming rate of youth “restiveness, viciousness, criminal activities, drug abuse, cultism, banditry, cybercrime, kidnapping and insurgency” would continue to hinder peaceful coexistence of national development if all state’s actors neglect their primary roles of nation building.

Recalling that the National Population Commission said that youth represent 62% of the Nigeria population, he advised the government to rise to the occasion by creating enabling environment for youth empowerment.

While thanking the NYCN for its initiative in organising the event, the vice-chancellor appealed to youth not to take laws into their own hands, calling on them to support the government in the fight against insecurity in the country.