Youth Inclusion Panacea To Development By Don Adebayo Emmanuel

Professor Emmanuel Adebayo stated on Youth Inclusion Panacea To Development while delivering Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA)157th Inaugural lecture on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.

A professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Adebayo Emmanuel, has said that poverty and dearth of economic activities in the rural areas and non-inclusion of the youth in the scheme of things would continue to retard overall development of the country.

Professor Emmanuel stated this while delivering the university’s 157th Inaugural lecture on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.

Speaking on the topic, “Survival Pursuits and Sustainable Communities: Connecting the Dots”, the university don stressed that lack of inclusiveness in the planning process could lead to inequitable development which would eventually disenfranchise the poor in communities.

MySchoolNews reporting.