 Nigerian youth have been advised to learn from the success stories and make the most of the opportunities given by experts in the green sector in order to build themselves. This advice was given on the sidelines of a program organized by the inspired youth network in collaboration with the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Ifaqwe Jaya as well as Action Aid Nigeria to commemorate the international youth today. Tim Linde of the SPA, two projects of the IYN Oluwatoyi Adeja concert, the International Youth Day, which has themed green skills for youth towards a sustainable world, aims to empower young people with necessary skills to become chain makers. The Lagos German of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter Ola Lekon Oba, flanked by other speakers, advised young people to stay clear from drugs as it will kill their potentials. Okay for me I would say I'm very impressed about how young people have taken advantage of international youth days to celebrate young people because if you compare now from the time past you discover that youth programs have not really been something we could talk about but recently we've been having a lot of youth programs, entrepreneurship, agriculture and in fact we are even personally reviewing the state's policy on young people so I think people are now making statements about celebrating young people and then building their capacity in order to strengthen the economy of Nigeria. Stay out of drugs, you know doing drugs kills, it kills whatever potential you have, it kills whatever vision you have, it kills whatever ability that you have and you reduce your ability to think around solutions. So my thought on young people in recent times is that you need to believe yourself, don't give up. Because one of the ways to get into opportunities is when you belong to an organization, a progressive organization. So by the time you belong to a progressive organization when opportunities come it comes to this organization and also you should be optimistic and believe in yourself. Age doesn't mean you are finished even if you are at the peak of your youthful age then you still have so many opportunities out there. The symposium recognized and celebrated the importance of young people and addressed some of the issues they grew through. It also sought to provide the youth with an understanding of the impact of grinscales and jobs that can reduce unemployment. I think the feedback to young people is the fact that they need to just continue grinding, be intentional and just keep moving. I'm not going to say it's going to be easy but you just have to keep moving. You just have to give up right now. But this is the best time when you are down. This is the best time to keep pushing. My principal Uzman Akambiamzat is doing a role in terms of youth empowerment, in terms of trying to have a seminar for the young people in their direction, career path and all of that. So I think it's not annually we already have been that that happening in the local government right. So this is just for us to celebrate international youth there. 2015 I made up my mind that I was going to leave Nigeria right. In 2015 2016 2017 many of my friends built the most successful technology companies in this country and that is why I'm back home. You know where there are problems there are opportunities. As a young person don't just spend your time and your life complaining about what is bad in your country. Nigeria is about to turn a new leaf. Things about to change. There's a renewed hope right now. There's a new president with super smart with super intelligent position yourself. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.