Don’t limit yourselves to Nigeria’s realities’ — Sam Amadi, others urge youths

By Nnasom David

ABUJA — Former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr. Sam Amadi, has urged Nigerian youths not to resign themselves to the country’s challenges but to physique resilience and capableness to thrive some locally and globally.

Amadi spoke connected Saturday successful Abuja during the Raising Global Leaders Conference 2025, organised by Channel Life Fordrum to equip young Africans with enactment and innovation skills.

As a panelist, Amadi acknowledged Nigeria’s hard realities but stressed the value of recognizing opportunities wrong and beyond them.

“Nigeria faces superior challenges, but determination is inactive a future. That aboriginal lies successful identifying our problems, knowing them clearly, and past charting applicable pathways forward. While we indispensable admit our existent realities, determination are aggregate opportunities to emergence supra them,” helium said.

He added that young radical indispensable cultivate values specified arsenic resilience, self-improvement, and a realistic attack to problem-solving.

“Even though determination are challenges, youths indispensable not bounds themselves to those realities. With the close character, attitude, and concern successful self-development, they tin succeed. We unrecorded successful a planetary system wherever skills and competencies tin find look acold beyond nationalist boundaries,” helium noted.

The laminitis of Channel Life Fordrum and big of the conference, Esther Eje, said the inaugural was designed to nurture strategical nation-builders who tin alteration Africa from within.

“We judge solutions to our continent’s challenges tin beryllium developed from the wrong out, starting with the younker population, which is Africa’s top strength. That’s wherefore we designed the Raising Global Leaders Fellowship, a one-year mentorship programme for Africans aged 18 to 35,” she explained.

According to Eje, the 2025 variation marked the 3rd cohort of the fellowship, featuring experts from technology, business, aviation, and politics.

Also speaking, Ibironke Yekinni, CEO of Testify Limited Africa, said innovation successful Africa should absorption connected solving section problems portion gathering planetary standards.

“The solutions we physique successful Africa should code African needs, but with a prime mindset that makes them globally competitive. Nigeria tin go a hub for innovation if we absorption connected world-class standards,” Yekinni said.

She besides emphasized the value of assemblage successful idiosyncratic and nonrecreational growth, noting that “everybody thrives amended successful a assemblage of similar minds.”

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