The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina, has urged African leaders to provide jobs for the teeming unemployed youths to stop the mass migration in the country.
Adesina stated this in Abuja on Friday at the second Veritas University Digital Innovations Exhibition and 12th convocation lecture
He lamented that Nigeria is losing its best brains to Japa syndrome.
The former minister of Agriculture who spoke on the convocation lecture theme “Africa, It’s Your Time”, also tasked Nigeria to turn its huge youth demography into an asset and not a liability.
He announced that Nigeria has been listed among 10 other African countries to benefit from the Bank’s $20 billion Desert-to-Power initiative.
He noted that the power project was conceived to develop 10 GW of solar power, being the largest solar zone in the world when completed.
Adesina listed other countries to benefit from the initiative as Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Gambia, Guinea,…
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