NIGERIAN YOUTHS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS ON THE SPEECH OF THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENT AT THE COMMONWEALTH FORUM IN LONDON

Abstract

The youths are an integral part of any society and they are the focus for any sustainable development. Sustainable development comes with continuous growth, progress and improvement in every facet of human existence and the self-acquired capability for sustenance. Political parties and their existing government get involved in the business of integral and sustainable development for the sake of the present and the future looking at the realities that affect the present conditions any society finds itself. As such, the youths becomes the most important beneficiaries of these developments and yet the victims of underdevelopment which hardly translates into self-actualization that pricks youth effectiveness in relation to polity and the dynamics of Nigerian identity. If the youths are the leaders of tomorrow as popularly said then the future begins from today. This is on the ground that for a development to be sustainable and to sustain the future of the youth, then there must be fair level playing ground. This in mind, this paper did a qualitative research in a laboratory of philosophical analysis in response to a question where the Nigerian President has cause to talk about Nigerian youths at the Commonwealth Business Forum in London. In so doing, this paper has critically x-rayed the role of Nigerian youths in sustainable development in a contextual philosophical analysis as it pertains to the comment made by the President of Nigeria so as to accommodate divergent views and creating a more robust engagement between the youths and government in Nigeria.