Youth Activism Earned Nigeria Independence, Says VC

Vice Chancellor of Gombe State University (GSU), Prof. Sani Ahmed Yauta, has said Nigeria’s Independence was secured chiefly done the activism and sacrifices of young people, stressing that their relation successful nation-building remains indispensable.

At the Independence Day Symposium organised by the Gombe State Youth Parliament connected Wednesday astatine the Old Multipurpose Hall of Gombe State University, Prof. Yauta said past would beryllium incomplete without acknowledging the struggles of younker organisations specified arsenic the West African Students’ Union, whose activism unsettled assemblage authorities and hastened the attainment of self-rule connected October 1, 1960.

Represented by his deputy, Prof. Isaac Ediba, the vice chancellor said, “Without the activism, courageousness and committedness of young radical to self-rule, Nigeria would not person attained independency 65 years ago. It was not handed to america connected a platter of gold, but won done the sacrifices and struggles of the youth,” helium said.

He commended the Gombe State Youth Parliament for organising the symposium themed “The Role of Young People successful Nation Building”, noting that the inaugural aligns with the university’s student-centered imaginativeness of empowering the adjacent procreation with civic work and enactment skills.

Yauta urged the younker to emulate the patriotism of their predecessors by channelling their vigor and creativity into innovation, entrepreneurship, and governance alternatively than allowing themselves to beryllium distracted by indifference oregon destructive habits.

In his invited address, the talker of the Gombe State Youth Parliament, Rt. Hon. Aliyu Danladi, said young radical represent implicit 62 per cent of the state’s population, according to the Gombe State Development Plan projection. He stressed that this demographic spot indispensable beryllium harnessed for maturation and advancement alternatively than wasted connected vices.

“The aboriginal is not tomorrow—it begins with the choices we marque today. Let america emergence supra indifference, clasp innovation, and transmission our corporate spot into gathering the Gombe and Nigeria we each desire,” helium urged.

The impermanent speaker, Dr Sani Yakubu of the Federal College of Education, Gombe, described the younker arsenic the backbone of each federation and agents of change.

He urged them to instrumentality up the mantle of work successful driving social, political, and economical transformation.