FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
General Information
The National Youth Conference 2025, also known as the National Youth Confab, is an initiative of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It serves as a pivotal platform for young Nigerians to engage in significant dialogue, influence national policy, and collaboratively create solutions to issues that affect their present and future.
The conference is coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Youth Development (FMYD) in partnership with key stakeholders, development partners, civil society organizations, and youth networks across the nation.
The primary goal is to place young people at the center of governance, ensuring their ideas and aspirations shape Nigeria’s development agenda. It aims to transition youth from being passive recipients of policies to active co-creators of the nation’s future.
The conference is guided by principles of inclusivity and diversity, youth ownership and leadership, mutual respect and constructive dialogue, non-partisanship, accountability and transparency, cost-effectiveness, innovation, and intergenerational solidarity.
Participation and Eligibility
Participants must generally be between the ages of 18 and 35. However, to foster intergenerational dialogue, 10% of participants can be between 36 and 40 years old. Delegates will be selected from youth organizations, community-based groups, professional youth networks, student unions, and other official youth bodies.
For the federal constituency consultations, participants will be chosen through nominations by recognized youth organizations and stakeholders, as well as through an open registration process. Delegates for the zonal consultations will be selected based on their active participation in the federal constituency meetings, nominations, and an open registration process. It is important to note that all delegates for the national conference in Abuja will emerge from these structured consultations; there are no direct nominations at the national level.
Yes, the conference is committed to inclusivity. There will be a strict adherence to gender balance, aiming for a 50-50 ratio of male and female delegates where possible. The inclusion of persons with disabilities (PWDs) and other marginalized groups is also a priority.
Yes. Young Nigerians living outside the country can participate in all virtual consultations and submit memoranda. There will also be a call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for diaspora youth organizations to host their own consultations. Subject to the availability of resources, six young Nigerians from the diaspora will be sponsored to attend the final conference in Abuja.
Conference Structure and Activities
The conference is structured around six thematic pillars: Governance, Leadership, and Political Participation; Economic Transformation, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation; Education and Seven-Star Skills for the future; Technology, Innovation, and Digital Transformation; Climate Change and Energy Transition; and Social Cohesion and Security.
The conference will involve a series of activities leading up to the main event in Abuja: Pre-conference activities (two-step virtual consultations, call for policy papers), In-person consultations (townhall meetings in all 360 federal constituencies), Zonal consultations (aggregation of recommendations from constituency townhalls), and The Abuja Conference (final event with panel discussions, policy labs, innovation showcase, culminating in an outcome document).
Federal Constituency Consultations: June 16th – 20th, 2025; Zonal Consultations: June 24th – 28th, 2025; Diaspora Consultations: June 14th – 28th, 2025; Abuja Conference: July 7th – 21st, 2025; Submission of Final Report to the President: August 12th, 2025 (International Youth Day).
Post-Conference Plans
A comprehensive follow-up plan is in place to ensure the conference has a lasting impact. Key elements include: Multi-Stakeholder Youth Confab Taskforce, Youth Confab Impact Index, Sustained Engagement, Policy Adoption, and Youth-Led Monitoring.