EKSG REITERATES SUPPORT FOR POPULATION CENSUS

The Commissioner for Youth Development, Mr Gold Adedayo has pledged the support of the Governor Biodun Oyebanji's administration for efforts at ensuring a successful conduct of the forthcoming enumeration and census exercise.

Mr Adedayo gave the assurance in his office in Ado Ekiti during an advocacy visit by officials of the NPC led by the Federal Commissioner representing Ekiti State, Mr Ayodeji Ajayi.

He noted that the exercise would help in equitable resource allocation as objective of the exercise was aimed at determining the population size, establishment of demographic data, employment status and standard of living.

The Commissioner who stated that the present government would not leave any stone unturned in the affairs of youth, said that the ministry of youth development has engaged different youth organizations including their umbrella body, National Youth Council of Nigeria ( NYCN) on ways to bring them on board in the affairs of the government.

He also revealed areas of seeking international collaboration to help the development of youth towards bringing out the potentials embedded in them in order to be positively engaged and useful to themselves as well as make them employers of labour.

Adedayo who noted that one of the pillars of the Biodun Oyebanji government is Youth Development said that the government would require the youth in policy making.

Earlier, the Federal Commissioner, Mr Deji Ajayi appreciated the governor for the appointment of the commissioner to take charge of youth development in the state.

Mr Ajayi said that the purpose of the meeting is to bring youth on board in the affairs of the nation, stressing that youths form a larger percentage of the Nigerian population.

The Federal Commissioner stated that youth occupied about eighty percent of youth for census adding that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training was also given to enhance their productivity.

He highlighted some the benefits of the census to be Upgrading of Capacity of the workers, Statistics for planning, Security, working with necessary ministries to attain the desired purpose.