FEATURES: YALGI Equipping  Nigerian Youths As Potential Leaders Of Tomorrow

Posted by Ignatius Okpara Articles/Opinion, Featured, Latest Headlines Friday, September 19th, 2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) —  One of the cardinal factors that has been militating against  improvement and economical maturation arsenic good arsenic remaining a clog successful the instrumentality of advancement amongst African nations, including Nigeria for respective decades, has been the contented of adjacent non availability of transformational leaders successful the continent.

The enthronement of governmental leaders without way records, integrity, empathy, and vision, particularly successful our beloved federation Nigeria, the acclaimed elephantine Africa, implicit the years, has nary uncertainty created country for atrocious governance and continued to rob the citizens of effectual enactment that ought to supply the radical ideology dividends, and interaction the lives of the citizenry successful each ramifications.

For a person to unrecorded up to the expectations of his radical and pb effectively, helium indispensable beryllium honest, ethical, and principled and ever stock successful the pains and joyousness of his citizens. 

But regrettably, astir African leaders deficiency the  qualities of a bully person hence, the governed, particularly the young fols  person mislaid religion and assurance successful them, a improvement that makes the aboriginal leaders to ever question greener pastures overseas erstwhile immoderate slightest accidental comes  their way, beryllium it via morganatic oregon illegitimate means.

Also, the deficiency of spot amongst modern leaders of processing African nations who bash not support to their governmental run promises, has arsenic done much harm than bully to the citizens who person continued to wallow successful abject poorness contempt the abundant quality and earthy resources specified countries  are endowed with.

Irked by the disfigured concern which has continued to rear it’s disfigured caput from dispensation to dispensation unabated, young radical successful assorted climes, including Nigeria nary longer judge successful the assertion that ‘Youths are the leaders of tomorrow’ 

Rather, what is ever connected their lips is “our leaders  person failed america woefully successful each ramifications”.

However, it’s against the backdrop of empowering and educating teeming young Nigerians connected the request to alteration the communicative and instrumentality their destiny successful their ain hands that a younker non governmental organization, nether the level of Young African leaders for planetary impact, YALGI, established by a young promising and  serving subordinate of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), successful Ebonyi state, South East Nigeria, Ambassador Ikenna Ezenwa, precocious convened a 1 time young African leaders league (YALCON) 2025 successful Enugu.

The league attended by implicit 3 1000 youths drawn from assorted segments of Nigeria besides attracted the keynote talker and Board Chairperson of YALGI, Dr. Sharon Waswa a UK based  assemblage lecturer who hails from Kenya.

 Participants astatine the Conference with the theme: Africa’s Next Generation of Change maker: Leading the displacement from Aid to Sustainable Impact’ were educated connected issues bothering connected enactment by the assets persons who arsenic engaged them successful a brainstorming session.

Addressing the youths, Enugu authorities governor, Dr.  Peter Mbah, Advised them  To Embrace  virtuousness of hard work, Technology, Courage, Empathy truthful arsenic to win successful life, adding that they indispensable also <...