Dilemma of the Nigerian youth – Punch Newspapers

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Niran Adedokun

Reaching a consensus about who a youth is in Nigeria is a fundamental challenge which may blur every other discussion about this demography.

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation says youthfulness is an attribute of people who are in the 15 and 24 age grade. It promises though that given the peculiarities of each member state, it would concede to their individual definitions of the nomenclature.

To that effect, UNESCO, when considering youths in the African context, adopts the African Youth Charter definition that youth means “every person between the ages of 15 and 35 years.” But even that milestone does not hold for Nigeria.

Although equally beset by the same set of temptations and trials which afflict sister countries on the continent, the African Youth Charter standards do not work for Nigeria for two fairly patent reasons.

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