As Nigeria joins the remainder of the world to mark the 2024 Worldwide Youth Day (IYD), the Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, has hailed Nigerian youth and their contributions to the financial system, assuring of enactment of legislations and insurance policies that may improve digital transformation and bridge digital divide.
IYD is noticed on August 12 yearly, to mark the contributions of the youth within the growth of society alongside understanding the challenges confronted by them. This yr’s IYD has the theme: ‘From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Improvement’.
The Deputy Speaker, in a press release on Sunday by his Particular Assistant on Press Affairs, Udora Orizu, acknowledged the essential roles Nigerian youth play in reaching fast financial progress and growth.
He famous that the youth kind the most important demography of customers and builders shaping digital tendencies globally, therefore stay an important demographic group in leveraging the transformative energy of applied sciences to deal with international challenges.
He mentioned that this yr’s theme is in step with the agenda of the tenth Home of Representatives, to make use of legislative devices to make sure that the youth within the nation develop into a power within the digital market.
Based on him, given the huge pool of younger and gifted folks within the nation, the tenth Home understands that strengthening innovation and know-how is pivotal for enhancing Nigeria’s international competitiveness, therefore will amongst different initiatives, introduce a nationwide innovation technique to prioritise achievements in digital transformation and legislate to advertise digital abilities growth programmes.
The Deputy Speaker additional mentioned that the parliament was conscious of the state of the nation, recalling how the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas not too long ago led the Home to interact with leaders and representatives of assorted youth organisations on the Nationwide Meeting, geared toward listening to their complaints and calls for, with a view to discovering lasting options.
Kalu appealed to the youth to champion nationwide unity and collective prosperity by utilisation of assorted youth initiatives, programmes and insurance policies put collectively by the federal government, including that President Bola Tinubu-led adminstration was working laborious to deal with their plight.
