Embracing Digital Activism in Speaking Truth to Power
Do you know how often I have considered leaving this country in my lifetime or last year? More than I can count, and can you blame me? I live in a nation where all my efforts for change and more favourable living conditions for myself are frustrated by the same bodies that dare call me […]
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 […]
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 […]
Announcing the 20 Activists for the Speak Up Stand Out Program
Over the last four years, Nigeria Youth SDGs Network has worked with young people across Nigeria towards advocating for meaningful youth engagement in the developmental agenda of their communities. The Speak Up, Stand Out which is led by Nigeria Youth SDGs and supported by the Centre for Youth Advocacy and Development, Afrika Youth Movement and […]
Coalition Empowers 403 Youth for Food Security
A coalition of youth-focused and youth-led organisations working around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria has called for more empowerment of young people to attain food security. The coalition, under the aegis of Nigeria Youth SDGs Network, said it is creating opportunities to support young people to attain the SDGs in the country. The […]
Youth Activism: How To Redesign Your Approach
Do you have any idea how many times I have considered leaving this country in my lifetime or the last year? More than I can count, and can you blame me? I live in a nation where all my efforts for change and more favourable living conditions for myself are frustrated by the same bodies […]
How the COVID19 Pandemic Accelerated Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed the landscape of human interactions. As mobility and physical gatherings were restricted, people resorted to digital versions of everyday practices from before the pandemic began, forcing them to take an extraordinary digital leap. Since life cannot really take a long break, businesses, schools, and other institutions began to look […]
Lifting 100 Million People Out of Poverty: Four Things Nigeria Needs to Do
Joshua Alade According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate in Nigeria is about 27.1 percent which means about 22 million people do not have jobs and if you add the underemployment rate it is nearly about 54 percent. Young people make up a significant portion of this statistics as about 60 percent […]
Why Advocacy is the Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria
Written by Chinedu Nnawetanma The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 aspirations for economic, social, environmental and political prosperity that every country in the world is enjoined to achieve by 2030. The SDGs were launched by the United Nations in 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the previous global goals whose timeline ran from 2000 […]
Call for Submission/Nomination of Stories of African Youth-Led Organizations
UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office Abuja in partnership with the Pan-African Youth Network for a Culture of Peace (PAYNCoP), and the Center for Youth Advocacy and Development (CEYAD) invites African youth organizations to submit original and innovative experiences that document impactful youth engagements spanning across development pillars that have and/or are currently transforming the trajectory of […]
