The National Orientation Agency (NOA) Yobe State directorate on Thursday engaged youth groups on issues of peace and national development.
The sensitisation took place during the 2021 one-day national youth summit tagged” Youth participation in national development in the face of COVID-19 pandemic ” held in Damaturu.
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Speaking at the occasion, the NOA Director General, Dr Garba Abari, who was represented by the State Director, Ali Audu, noted that the summit was meant to reawaken the youth on the need to embrace the national core values and ethics.
He said other objectives of the summit were to mobilise Nigerian youth and seek for resolution of their grievances through dialogue.
According to him, the EndSARS protest has raised issues of concern around the country, which indicated that Nigerian youths have constitutional rights to express their views on national issues.
“Arising from these challenges, the NOA through its mandates as social engineering institution create more avenues for peaceful interaction,” he added.
In his remarks, the spokesman for the Police, Yobe State Command, Dungus Abdulkarim, advised governments to consider youth as important stakeholders in decision making.
He equally urged them to create more job opportunities and skill acquisition centres as well as improve communication between policymakers and the youth.
One of the participants, Ibrahim Bala Muhammad expressed optimism that with such avenues youth could voice out their demands while asking government
