World Environment Day: Six Young People Advocating for a Sustainable Future and Healthier Climate in Nigeria
There’s no planet like Earth. The global environment is changing with dramatic disruption of human activity. World Environment Day focuses on living sustainably in harmony with nature. There is a need to analyze and address the impacts of human disruption on Earth’s natural system and the environment. From leading voices in climate education, addressing waste […]
Promoting the Economic Empowerment of Young Women in Nigeria
Nigeria Youth SDGs, alongside ONE Campaign, Junior Chambers International (JCI) organized an advocacy consultation with the MDAs on 26th and 27th April 2022 in Abuja, Nigeria. The visit aimed to highlight the issues affecting young women’s economic empowerment and present critical insights from the joint Issue Brief research. The youth-led network consortium worked on strengthening […]
Download – National Youth Policy (2019-2023)
Young people make up more than half of Nigeria’s 200 million population and their role in nation-building and development cannot be overemphasized. With a median age of 17, harnessing the demographic dividend is essential for the young people of Africa’s most populous country to lead and thrive. The National Youth Policy (NYP) aims to promote […]
Why Ending Water Poverty is Essential for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria
Did you know that access to clean, safe, affordable, sufficient, and acceptable water for personal and domestic uses is the right of all Nigerians due to the country’s membership of the United Nations Declaration of the Right to Water? According to the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, 66.9 percent of households do not have […]
International Women’s Day: Meet Nine Young Women Advocating for Sustainable Futures in Nigeria
Every day young women in Nigeria are working to ensure sustainable futures for everyone especially with the impact of the COVID19 pandemic. From fighting food insecurity in their communities to ensuring access to power and clean water, they are using their strength, ideas, innovation, leadership and resilience to create meaningful change for women and youth. […]
The Safe Schools Declaration and Achieving Sustainable Futures for Young People
More than 12 million children have been forced out of school in Nigeria because of insurgency and banditry. In the northern part of Nigeria, school children, especially girls, have had to experience kidnapping by terrorist groups who target school children for ransom. The rising cases of banditry and insurgency targeting school children affect school attendance […]
NGYouthSDGs ED Joshua Alade Speaks at ILO/ITU/AU Side Event on Creating Decent Jobs for Youth Through Digital Transformation
During the African Union and European Union Partnership Week, the International Labour Organization in collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union and the African Union hosted a side event on Creating decent work for youth through digital transformation on February 16, 2022. The aim of the side event was for participants to discuss solutions to create […]
Nigeria Youth SDGs provides digital skills training to 90 people in three states
With the support of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Nigeria Youth SDGs Network, a coalition of youth-led civil society organisations with members across 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, has provided digital skills training to 90 youths in Adamawa, Benue, and the Lagos States. Ninety young people whose livelihoods and employments were affected by […]
How Livelihood Losses Create An Enabling Environment for Fragility in the Lake Chad region
Conflict in the Lake Chad region is a function of using and controlling resources for livelihood. The loss of livelihood is a powerful weapon against peace and security in a society like mine. I don’t want to believe there is no correlation between climate change and conflict when it is already an everyday reality in […]
We Are Hiring: Programmes Officer at NGYouthSDGs
Position: Programmes Officer Salary: NGN 120,000 per month Duration: Initial three months contract, renewable subject to performance Location: Yaba, Lagos Purpose of the role To support and manage relationships and activities with multilateral partners and NGOs; to support the collection and dissemination of required programme information, and to lead on the delivery of programmes based […]
