A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN NATION DEVELOPMENT

A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN NATION DEVELOPMENT

LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0 The Concept of The Role Of The Youth In Nation Building
Johnson (2008) stated that youth are one of the greatest assets that any nation can have not only are they legitimately regarded as the future leaders, they are, potentially and actually the greatest investment for a country’s development, they serve as a good measure of the extent to which a country can reproduce as well we sustain itself, the extent of their vitality, responsible conduct, and role in society is positively
correlated with the development of their country, the issue of Nigeria population is predominantly young.
Furthermore Johnson said that having given due consideration to the significance of the youth in socio-economic and political development has found it most desirable and necessary to invite this national youth development policy so that there will be a purposeful, focused, well articulated and well resourcefulness of the youth and development of the country well into the 21st century.
Chillegbu (2009) view that youths are the foundation of a society, their energy, inventiveness, character and orientation define the peace of development and the security of the nation through their creative talents and labour power, a nation makes giants stridles in economic development and socio-political attainments, in their dreams and hopes, a nation founds her motivation, on their energies, she build her vitality and purpose. Furthermore Chillegbu emphasized that because of their dreams and aspirants the future of a nation is assured, he opined that
youth constitute Nigeria’s only real hope for a great future, therefore, taken a critical look at the plight of Nigerian youth and caused to be prepared a consenus blue print for their development consultation were held nation wide with relevant youth organization, administrators, and non governmental organizations through zonal youth summits, their reconciled views term the basis of this drag policy document which you
are here to deliberate for final adoption. Jacki (2001) view that it is indicative of the readiness of the federal government to meet the needs and aspiration of the youth as well as seek
solution to their problems it sets a guidelines for all the stake holders to empower the youth to realize their potentialities and take advantage of the opportunities available to make position contribution to the well-being of their communities and the society as a whole, the policy takes into account the range of problems faced by the youth anticipates the challenges that they are like to comfort and outline appropriate objectives, policies and programmes and implementation.
He opined a plans which will be put in place so as to empower the youth to take change of their own destiny as well as make them actives…. Participants in the shaping of the political and economic destiny of our nation, the policy also recognize that youth are not a homogeneous category and that differences exist among them. Therefore, the policy contains provisions that will address the specific and special news of each of several identified target groups.

A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN NATION DEVELOPMENT