The immediate past President of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, Chief Adeyemi Soladoye, on Sunday, said Nigeria must stop building the future for youth but rather build the youth for the future to enable them to cope with the challenges of a changing world.
He also advocated for a strategic approach to communal and human development.
He stated this at Ibadan House, Oke-Aremo in Ibadan, Oyo State, during the 2023 Oke-Odo Day launch of a N250million appeal fund for the completion of the Club House, as well as the Patron and Matron of the Club.
Soladoye, who was the guest speaker, said, “The era of building the future for our youth is over. The way out in Nigeria today is to build our youth for the future. The over-flogged bursary awards and other monetary inducements for our youth are already becoming counter-productive. The solution is for each community to take two steps backward into the formative stages of our youth and also adopt simple, low-cost, non-personalised…