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NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE 2026 SOUTHWEST DAY 1 – Transcript
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You welcome everybody. Then basically you invite the PS who is going to give us like um uh who's going to give us um like um welcome everybody welcome address. Then after that we bring the moderator. We bring the um you as a moderator just housekeeping like the agenda says then pre we bring madame we bring precious in. Okay. Glad to be
here. Thank you very much. Nigeria our own dear native. No tribe [singing] and tongue may differ in brotherhood we stand.
Nigerians home and proud to serve our sovereign [singing] mother land. >> All right. Thank you very much everyone for joining us on today's session of the National Youth Confer. I am your host Tut Roa and I believe we would have a very great time being here together
today. Yes. So, it's good having people from all across the country for this Southwest um national youth confab and I do know that we'll have a great time together. Uh there are line up of events, series of events that will be taking place. I do not want us to get bored or tired. There are a lot of things that will happen for good here and I know that we'll all have something to gain um from today's session. Thank
you so much. I can see people introducing themselves in the chat room. Yes, we are glad to all have you here and we do know that it will be a very enriching time together. Like I had said um in some few seconds from now we would have the welcome address from the permanent secretary federal ministry of youths and development who is also the chair of the national youth confirm.
Please welcome with me the permanent secretary as he takes on the welcome address. Over to you sir. Thank you. Thank you. I I am glad today I'm a sir but it doesn't matter. I am excited to be here and uh excited to have this uh conversation to welcome uh the south west youths to this conversation. It is
a pleasure to welcome you west zonal section of this national youth conference 2026. The successful virtual participation accorded so far since the opening of this national conference on the 2nd of October demonstrate the geographical that geographical distance cannot silence the voice of the Nigerian youth
and when provided an inclusive platform with an estimated 6.4 4 million young people age 15 to 35 which represent an enomous national assets. Hassing the energy of the youth, their creativity and enterprise is essential to sustainable development to job creation and to national prosperity. The Southwest occupies a distinguished place
in Nigeria's history. From Lagos emergence as a commercial and industrial hub to the region's contribution to education, democratic development, media, technology, the creative economy and you name it. the legacies of Chief Obafi Aolo investment in free education and the region's pion pioneering role in Nigerian's media and cultural industry
demonstrate the demonstrative the transm transformative power of the visionary leadership and human capital of the southwest today its enterprising young people continue to drive innovation commerce agriculture and digital transformation not just in Nigeria but globally. I commend the federal government particularly his excellency
the president of the federal republic of Nigeria president Bola Amedu GCFR and the honorable minister comrade Aayodle Olawandi whose root in this zone underscore the importance of ensuring that this conference serves as a unique platform for all Nigerian youths across the different zones to express their aspirations and to shape the national
policies. I urge you to advance practical inclusive proposals on employment, entrepreneurship, education, technology, security, governance and other relevant aspects of our nation building. Let your deliberation translate into measurable action. Don't just bring on the questions. Please bring solutions because Nigerian youth
are known for their intelligence, their resilience, their creativity and some of those answers, many of those answers to the questions you may be asking may actually be uh with you. So bring them on together.
Let us build Nigeria where every young person has a voice and that voice counts and that voice matter and every young person has opportunity and stake in our collective future. I want to close by saying um thank you all for making time.
I can see we already have one about one 1,500 participants and many more on other uh social media. Thank you. God bless the Southwest. God bless Nigerian youth and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Enjoy your deliberation.
Good morning. >> Thank you very much Dr. Miriam for that. like you rightly noted, I was almost assigning you to to be a man, but never mind me. Um, what it just shows is that either male or female, we are all men, you know, when it comes to this. It's just a generic name actually. Yes. So, after the welcome address, thank you
very much for that. Um, special thanks to the Minister, the Honorable Minister of Youths, Sports and Development for putting this together. The Southwest is here. The Southwest is ready to listen. The Southwest is ready to collaborate. The Southwest is ready to support the government on and on as we keep going on. Yes, we can see people coming from all across Southwest. I can see various
communities, Ibajjo, Ko, Hondo Town, everywhere. you know or your welcome and it's going to be a very swell time together today. Yes, let's not waste your time. We would move shortly now into the context setting for the day. The context setting
shall be taken by uh Precious Aber. But before she comes on, I want to share her profile with us. Precious Ein OB popularly known as Madame Dio is a policy strategist, social entrepreneur and civic innovator committed to strengthening citizen participation, inclusive governance and community led
development across Africa. She holds an MSE in social and pol public policy from Kadif University, United Kingdom. ear and through the prestigious Cheving scholarship. She is the co-founder and executive director of do take action, a civic organization established in 2018 with a motion to mobilize over 1 billion
Africans to take action on the challenges affecting their communities using behavioral science, human centered designs and technology. She has a model that empowers ordinary citizens to become active community builders. Under her leadership, do take action as mobilized over 5,000 over 4,530 grassroots development champions across
six African countries who have implemented more than 3,381 community projects. Precious has served as the head of technical research and policy development in the office of the senior special assistant to the president on community engagement south Nigeria contributing to evidence-based policy children engagement and framework for tracking government
for tracking government intervention. Sorry. She also co-ounded mandate for a civic movement dedicated to strengthening democracy culture, electoral accountability and youth participation in governance. Our work has attracted partnership with leading international organizations including UN women, the World Bank, the UK foreign
commonwealth and development office FCDO and malaria fund. Through her work in policy, civic innovation and grassroots mobilization, Precious continues to champion and Africa where citizens, especially young people, actively shape governance, inclusive decisions and drive change
they want to see. Please welcome with me to the National Youth Confab Southwest, Precious Aber Chinuo Obi to please take us on from here. Thank you very much.
Over to you, Precious. >> Hello. >> Hello everyone. >> Oh, can you hear me? >> Yes, we can. Please take it on.
>> All right. Thank you so much for the invitation and also for you know inviting me for this very important um conversation. Um please um before I start um can you please confirm if you can see my screen?
>> Yes we can please proceed. >> All right. Uh, I think I'm struggling. Um, just give me a few seconds cuz I can't I can't I can't navigate through this perfectly.
Sure. So while we um before we go into the crux of today's conversation right I want us to share you know our thoughts about today's conversation of governance leadership and particip political participation.
So what in your own in your own context what do you think about these three three um words in your own context? I just want to see that um shared on the chat box while I try to put up my screen up so we can all engage.