15 Youths to win a Lunch ticket with the New Human Rights Officer of the US Embassy Nigeria and Branded T. Shirt & Badge courtesy World Youth Movement for Democracy USA in commemoration of the World Youth Democracy Day 2011 tagged Ignite Change
How to win of the 15 tickets and Branded T. Shirts?
Every day from Monday 17th to Friday 21st October, 2011, youth are invited to join our 2011 Youth Democracy Online Forum by posting comments on the online forum holding at this website www.youngstars-foundation.org At the end of each day’s forum, the 3 persons who post the most interesting comments shall be selected as winners of the lunch ticket for the day and announced the next day on the website. Thus at the end of the 5 days, 15 Nigeria youth shall be selected for the distinguished lunch in Abuja.
Benefit
- Winners shall physically meet and interact with the New Human Rights Officer of the US Embassy in Nigeria as well as an opportunity to share your work for future collaboration with his office.
- All 15 winners shall be presented a branded T. Shirt and Badge courtesy of the World Youth Movement for Democracy Washington DC – USA.
- Become a member of a vibrant global movement of young people promoting sustainable and credible democracy worldwide.
davingson
“…Orderliness is the First step in Heaven.” There is no orderliness without Code of conduct or what you can as well called Constitution. Democracy is all about quality representation and participation of the people, as i was thought…. Active Participation link in Nigeria democracy is very weak more especially on the side of the youth. We youth’s believe to some extent that Political leadership in Nigeria is met for a particular Age fraternity(elders) by courtesy of our Constitution. Now, to improve our Democracy, Constitution Amendment becomes the issue. That constitution Age barrier were a youth At the age of 18, can vote but can not be voted for, should be amended to give us more chances to effect more positive changes in our Democracy….
ziko
Democracy as we know is a government of active majority and for democracy to achieve its core aim of delivering good governance and promotion of human rights; then the majority must be actively involved. Why I choose active Citizen Participation as an ingredient needed to improve Nigeria’s democracy cannot be far-fetched because for now the level of apathy on the side of the citizen is too, high most especially the young people that makes up the vast majority of those that are supposed to be active participant in the democratic process. They do not understand national issues or even care to know what is expected from the elected officers, so how do we engage the leadership if we do not understand the issues ourselves. Every day I see the passion young people put in football following, they can call the first 11 team of any team in the English Premiership but do not know the name of their Councilor, or even know the real issue happening at home, and when issues of national interest comes up, they all discussed based on emotions, sentiment or what a particular journalist wrote which they are not really sure it is correct, because they themselves has not avail themselves with facts and figures. So to improve our democracy through engaging our leaders and holding them more accountable and responsive, there must be active citizen participation, these present culture of ‘ he no concern me….i no wan die….i no be sabi sabi’ must change.