New Nigerian Youth Congress President Pledges To Join Fight Against Unemployment

The recently elected president of the Nigerian Youth Congress (NYC), Comrade Annum Jethro Terhile, has listed the combat against unemployment arsenic the uppermost precedence connected his docket for the group’s members.

Terhile said helium would execute the extremity by partnering with the national authorities agencies and different cardinal stakeholders successful the backstage assemblage done accomplishment acquisition and empowerment initiatives.

The NYC president successful Abuja astatine the weekend, erstwhile helium was elected astatine the 2025 National Convention of NYC,

In his acceptance code soon aft his inauguration, alongside the NYC enforcement members from crossed the country, by Dr. Yakubu Shendam-led Board of Trustees (BoT), helium stressed that legislature would prioritise collaborations with the authorities astatine each levels, the backstage sector, and planetary partners with reputable improvement initiatives crossed the globe to make sustainable programmes that volition empower the younker with skills, resources, and opportunities to excel successful their endeavours.

The NYC identified immoderate challenges Nigerian youths face: unemployment, underemployment, constricted opportunities, and a yearning for platforms to showcase their potential.

Terhile said that contempt the flimsy alteration successful younker unemployment from 8.00 per cent to 7.50 per cent, much needed to beryllium done to code the menace and different problems young Nigerians face.

Comrade Terhile warned that unempowered youths are a antagonistic and a information to the country. He added that well-meaning Nigerians should emergence to the situation by solving what helium termed “the Nigerian younker question.”

The NYC president said that from vocational grooming to entrepreneurship hubs, tech innovation labs to cultivation empowerment projects, NYC volition physique pathways for each young Nigerian to thrive, ensuring that each youths are included, irrespective of their tribes oregon religion.

He said the NYC, nether his leadership, volition not lone make jobs but besides nurture occupation creators since the aboriginal of Nigeria lies successful the hands of its youths.

“To the teeming Nigerian youths: this is your Congress. Your dreams, your struggles, and your aspirations volition signifier our journey. I committedness an inclusive level wherever your voices volition beryllium heard, your ideas volition beryllium valued, and your imaginable volition beryllium unleashed. Together, we volition enactment to guarantee authorities policies align with the needs of our youth, fostering an situation wherever innovation, creativity and hard enactment are rewarded,” helium stressed.

“To my chap leaders, Stakeholders, and partners, I widen a manus of collaboration. Let america unite successful gathering a Nigeria wherever nary younker is near behind, each young idiosyncratic has the tools to succeed, and our corporate vigor transforms challenges into opportunities.”

Earlier, Shendam charged the caller enactment of NYC to negociate a amended woody with politicians, irrespective of their governmental leanings, up of the 2027 canvass to amended the well-being of the country’s teeming younker population.