‘Why PwC is involved in youth engagement, cricket intervention’

South South zone won 2021 PWC National U-17 Championship.

Nigeria’s growing population leaves a yawning gap in active engagement of the school-age kids, which is currently put at 42.54 percent of the estimated 214million population.

This demography of Nigeria’s population is largely dependent and being not self-sustenance, has a huge economic import and transit to teenage and adulthood without tangible skill set. They face the prospect of transiting from teenage to adulthood without proper education and any tangible skill sets.

According to Tolu Adeleke, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the numbers and the potential outlook had compelled his firm to seek possible ways of intervention, one of which is the strategic partnership it currently is engaged in, with the Nigeria Cricket Federation.

“While we have a number of other levels of engagement that we believe can help reach these huge numbers, cricket comes to us as one of the most practical options for now.

The qualifiers for the PWC National U-17 Cricket Championship, holding in the six geo-political zones, will end… today<br />

Cricket activities in Gombe, Borno and Taraba states have been able to add to the active engagement data of school children involved in some form of active learning.

All three states were represented at the 2022 regional finals of the PwC National Cricket Championship hosted at Gombe.

Adeleke disclosed, “The data from the North East should give anyone interested in having active engagement with the youth and Out of School Children (OOSC) some concerns. But working with the team at the NCF, we have been able to penetrate, and we can only scale things up since we have afoot at the door.

General Manager of the Federation, Emeka Igwilo, says