Network stages programme to help young people plan future

A youth group, Youth Mentors Network is staging a programme aimed at helping young Nigerians to plan for their future.

At a briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, the leader of the group Temitope Ogunnusi said findings have shown that most young people lacked mentors, adding that the programme is to fill the gap.

He said the programme tagged, “Pre Order the Future” is a 28-day career and life planning challenge for pre-university teenagers in the country which will hold from March 18th to April 14 2018.

Ogunnusi added that participants will be guided within the period, to create “a wellresearched and reviewed career and life plan which they will be expected to execute over the next five years.”

He explained that on registration, each teenager will be assigned a mentor, who will provide guidance throughout the duration of the challenge.

Also speaking, the lead consultant of Crownfield Development Consult Tobi Olaitan lamented that present day youth are being carried away by social vices and other irrelevant things.

While pointing out that education remained the pathway to a better future, he posited that “If we don’t do this [mentor the youths] now, we will be left with terrorists and kidnappers later.”

On her part, the Executive Director of Refreshing Water International, Victoria Adeayo challenged adults in the society to take it as a responsibility to mentor at least, five young people in a year as part of their contribution to a better future generation.