Nation building: Expert canvasses youth mentoring
Nation building: Expert canvasses youth mentoring
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Mentoring
By Olasunkanmi Onifade
Abuja, April 7, 2017 (NAN) Mr Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director, African Centre For Leadership, Strategy and Development, an NGO, on Friday said mentoring of youths in the country was key to nation building.
Igbuzor gave the advice during the presentation of prizes to the SheImpact Essay winners organised by the Women Trust Fund on Abuja.
“Mentoring is very important; it helps for guidance and proper modeling of the youth people in the country.
“Many youths had failed not because they don’t have capacity to do so but in most cases they don’t have proper guidance and counseling, and therefore make mistakes that could be avoided,” he said.
Igbuzor said mentoring was important as knowledge and skills can learnt from mentors, adding that mentoring provides professional socialisation and personal support to facilitate success.
On women participation in politics, he said women needed to show more interest in the politics.
However, he noted that violence in politics had made women not to participate in politics in the country, saying the beginning of winning is participation.
The Chief Executive Officer of Women Trust Fund, Mrs Funke Baruwa, said women needed to prepare to occupy leadership positions in the country by having adequate qualifications.
She said the essay competition was a conscious effort in producing the next generation of leaders.
Baruwa said the topic of the essay competition was “Dynamics of the political participation and implication for young women”, adding the young women were selected through an online process.
She said about 1000 participated but narrowed down to 50 with three selected as the overall best. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola