The Federal Government of Nigeria has applauded the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) country office for the humanitarian impacts made across nation.
The remark was given by the Special Assistant to the President on Youth Initiatives, Titilope Gbadamosi, on Thursday during a career fair hosted by UNODC on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The United Nations agency held a Twitter space in collaboration with the office of the Ministry of Youth to orient Nigerian youth on career opportunities at the UNODC globally.
She applauded the UNODC for the effort made on the fight against drug abuse in various states in the country and on the integration of out-of-school children affected by the Boko Haram insurgents.
“We the young Nigerians can partake in these activities. You don’t have to be a civil servant to serve your fatherland nor a political appointee of government to serve.
“You can serve your fatherland and make the world a better place by putting in an application and joining organisations like the UNODC, and give in your best.”
She thanked the United Nations agency “for simplifying the process and assuring Nigerian youths that it is not out of their reach to work with the UNODC.”
“I am particularly excited about this because I know we have quite a number of people who are interested in working with the United Nations,” Gbadamosi said.
The special assistant urged young Nigerians to prepare and stand before locked doors of opportunities so as to walk into the rooms and give their best when the doors open.
Speaking earlier at the event, the UNODC’s Representative in Nigeria, Oliver Stolpe, said the agency has about 29 different projects, which are implemented across five areas.
He listed the areas to include transnational organised crime, drug control, countering corruption, criminal justice, and terrorism.
“Everything we do is in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria or the individual state governments,” Stolpe said.
He added the agency is presently implementing projects in three core locations; Abuja for operations related to the country at large, Maiduguri for projects outside the country’s capital, and Lagos.
The UNODC country representative cited that the agency implemented roughly US $30 million worth of projects across the various substantive areas aforementioned.