Federal Government’s YEIDEP Garners Support From Stakeholders, Alpha Morgan Bank

Minister of Youth Development, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, has urged Nigerian youths to enactment successful the national government’s Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalisation Programme (YEIDEP) to code younker unemployment, economical marginalisatiom and exclusion.

Olawande, who was represented by the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) astatine the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Dr Warrens Augusta, spoke astatine the ‘YEIDEP River State Stakeholders Engagement Forum’, held successful Port Harcourt, connected Thursday, September 11, 2025, sponsored by Alpha Morgan Bank.

He noted YEIDEP’s initiation arsenic a committedness by the Federal Government to tackle unemployment, poverty, and radicalisation among young Nigerians – issues threatening the country’s socio-political stability, nationalist security, and economical development.

Olawande commended President Bola Tinubu for the constitution of YEIDEP, stating that, “President Bola Tinubu GCFR, deserves the gratitude and appreciation of Nigerian youths for his relation successful the instauration of this strategical younker economical empowerment scheme… With YEIDEP and its effectual implementation, these disfigured societal factors volition soon beryllium mitigated.”

YEIDEP Coordinator-General and renowned humanitarian activist,Comrade Kennedy Iyere, called connected State governors and elected officials to enactment YEIDEP, emphasising it is important to countering Nigeria’s chronic younker unemployment and its associated threats similar radicalization and civilian unrest.

“Nigeria’s chronic younker unemployment is simply a ticking clip bomb… YEIDEP offers america an flight way distant from a looming governmental destruction,” Iyere warned, urging concern from governments, affluent Nigerians, and planetary partners for YEIDEP’s success.

Executive Director of Alpha Morgan Bank, Adedoyin Anyaehie, commended President Tinubu, Minister of Youth Development and YEIDEP’s Coordinator-General for their efforts.

She affirmed Alpha Morgan Bank’s committedness to younker and women empowerment, aligning YEIDEP with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Anyaehie noted Nigeria’s youthful colonisation – 60-70 per cent nether 30, astir 160-170 cardinal radical – is simply a formidable force” for economical maturation if harnessed.

“Nigerian younker are not conscionable the aboriginal of this federation — they are the ‘now’ of Nigeria, and the top plus we person arsenic a country,” she said.

“The shared imaginativeness of gathering a secure, prosperous, and inclusive Nigeria is wherefore we not lone basal with YEIDEP, but besides stay committed to supporting programmes that empower our youths. For us, Nigerian younker are not conscionable the aboriginal of this federation — they are the “now” of Nigeria, and the top plus we person arsenic a country.”

The YEIDEP stakeholders forum, held successful Port Harcourt, brought unneurotic accepted rulers, spiritual leaders, NGOs, CSOs, cooperative societies, women and younker groups, aiming to devise a roadmap for YEIDEP’s implementation to make jobs for 20 cardinal youths and young women done entrepreneurship and self-employment.