Farming with Swag is designed to introduce young people to attractive farming options in Nigeria as well as harnessing Agricultural Value Chain in Africa. The maiden edition of Farming with Swag held on 23rd of February, 2022, featured four sessions using four seasoned facilitators provided by the Youth Development Read more…
The Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat is designed to foster an intergenerational leadership continuum where participants engage (and are engaged by) President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR (and facilitators selected by him), on concurrent leadership issues and pragmatic approaches to confronting challenges and Read more…
The Pep Talk series is designed to engage Senior Secondary School three students in Nigeria to give them heads-up on how to ace their West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) Read more…
PAN is network that was borne out of the cerebral discussions that participants of the maiden Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat had with President Olusegun Obasanjo on has the vision to develop a generation of youths who are self-sustaining, creative, and Read more…
Unemployment is a perennial challenge in Africa. As part of its enterprise development mandate, the YDC-OOPL partnered with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to run the “CAREER PATH” project with a primary focus of empowering young people Read more…
As part of its focus on building mentoring bridges between the young and old, the Presidential Youth Mentoring Retreat was born to give participants ample time to engage President Obasanjo and friends for insights and experience sharing on their life Read more…
As the uncertainties posed by the novel coronavirus bit the work hard with no end in sight, some people lost loved ones, others lost their means of livelihoods. YDC-OOPL looked inward at the life and times of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Read more…
The FADAMA GUYS (Graduate Unemployed Youths and Women Supports) project was implemented by the Federal Government of Nigeria (through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the World Bank. The YDC-OOPL worked with Aquatic Hub Afrique Network to implement the project Read more…
As a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) certified Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC), YDC-OOPL organises regular Business Enterprise Training to equip participants with business development and management skills that make them eligible for the Agri-Business/Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Investment Scheme Read more…
Coronavirus pandemic took the wind off the sail of almost every part of the world. The challenges were unprecedented as people struggled to adhere to quarantine measures amid worsening economic woes. Small businesses were severely impacted and young people with Read more…