The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has concluded arrangements to renovate the Nyanya Youth Centre to ensure that youths their proper position in the scheme of things.
Accordingly, the Administration will be establishing two additional skills acquisition centers in Bwari and Kuje Area Councils respectively.
The Mandate Secretary, Youth and Sports Development Secretariat, Comrade Abdullahi Ango Suleiman, stated this during a consultative forum organized by the Secretariat for Leaders of Youth organizations in the FCT, Thursday in Abuja.
His words: “In addition, approval has been given for the renovation of the Nyanya Youth Centre and two additional skills acquisition centres have also been approved to be established in Bwari and Kuje Area Councils respectively.”
While appreciating all the things the FCT Administration has been doing for the youths in the Territory, particularly the 80 brand new vehicles given to the youths under the ‘Renewed Hope Youth Empowement Programme’, the Mandate Secretary appealed to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, for the establishment for a new Permanent Orientation Camp for the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), in the Territory.
Suleiman said that the establishment of a new NYSC Orientation Camp in the FCT, will give the corps members deployed to the FCT enough space to be accommodated in Kubwa, and turns it into a job creation hub, where several job creation centres will be clustered.
Speaking earlier, the Secretariat’s Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Nancy Sabanti-Nathan, said that it is a new dawn for FCT youth, as the current FCT Administration is prepared to invest in youth development.
She remarked that the FCT Minister has mandated the Secretariat to come up with projects and programmes that will be beneficial to FCT youth, which is one of the reasons for the ongoing consultative forum, enabling youths to make inputs in the planning process.
“This will enable the Secretariat to effectively address the needs of our youth. We have prioritized carrying out a robust Youth Needs Assessment, which will give us critical insights that shapes our policy decisions and programme aimed at updating the database of youth organizations that are registered with us for seamless communication of programmes and activities,” she added.
