WAEC Civic Education 2018 Theory question 106

Theory question 106

Youth Empowerment

Section B: Emerging Issues in the Society
(a) Highlight three ways by which Nigerian youths are being empowered.
(b) State three social consequences of high rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria.

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Model answer

(a) Any three (as at 2018): N-Power programme; NDE vocational training; skills acquisition centres; YouWiN!/Bank of Industry and SMEDAN loans; NYSC SAED scheme; scholarships and free education; Youth Enterprise with Innovation programmes.
(b) Any three: crime (robbery, kidnapping, cybercrime); drug abuse; political thuggery; prostitution; poverty; insecurity and restiveness (e.g. militancy); brain drain/migration.

Explanation

Name real programmes in (a).