"Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success."- Edward Everett Hale. The United Nations was founded (Officially) in 1945 as an international organisation after the Second World War by 51 countries, Poland being the 51st to sign and admitted in the instance. The aforementioned are thus not just to get us curious but to whet our appetite for the much needed partnership towards achieving the SDGs. These may have informed the theme for this years' International Youth Day "Transforming Education". The global learning crisis, according to UN is a threat seen to severely hamper progress towards the SDGs. To reflect back on the earlier UN report, it said, more than half of all children and adolescents aged 6-14 lack basic reading and math skills, despite the fact that the majority of them are attending school.
It was not clear thereafter how many of these population eventually exercised their civic right for further demographic analysis. This figure also reflected in the number of registered voters in the much talked about 2019 general elections. In Nigeria, we have the youth’s population below the ages of 25 forming about 65% of our estimated 200million population. The UN affirmed that this is the largest youth population ever. I like to announce that "A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all" Jacqueline NovogratzĪccording to United Nations (UN), there are currently 1.8billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world. Keynote address delivered by Gboyega OLORUNFEMI in Ibadan, Oyo State at the 2nd National Youth Symposium on SDGs organized by Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Youth Nigeria on 21st August, 2019.