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| President Muhammadu Buhari |
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration would place high premium on resolving the challenges facing the youth in the country.
The President gave the assurance on Wednesday at the 2015 International Youth Day, held at the Banquet hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
"We have resolved to provide adequate infrastructure and strengthen our job creation institutions" the Presdient said "in order to increase opportunities for our young people.
"For Nigeria to sustainably create jobs and ensure growth, we will pay special attention to the growth of our Small and Medium Scale Enterprises. This can be achieved through boosting the intervention funds as guaranteed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
"In order to ensure that young people are healthy, skilled and educationally empowered, we will strengthen our academic and vocational training institutions as well as significantly improve our healthcare delivery system." he added.
The president, emphasized that the positive engagements of the youth will stem down the tide of criminal activities and terrorism as experienced in the country, assuring that his administration was committed to fulfilling all its campaign promises which include creating jobs opportunities for the youth.
"Be assured that “change” for us is not a mere political slogan but the beginning of a new era desired by the majority of Nigerians. The youth must, therefore, be vanguards of this change and at the same time be the change that they wish to see.’’
The president further commended the Nigerian youths for the significant role they played in making the 2015 elections “a model for democratic governance in Africa.”
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth Development, Hajiya Rabi Jimeta, stated that the event was to provide the opportunity for the youth to provide possible solutions to the problems affecting their development.
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