National Youth Data Bank: Empowering Nigeria's Future Through Data-Driven Youth Development
Nigeria is home to one of the largest and most dynamic youth populations in the world. The National Youth Data Bank (NYDB) creates a secure, comprehensive national database to support evidence-based national planning and direct investment.
What is the National Youth Data Bank?
Empowering Nigeria’s Youth Through Data
The National Youth Data Bank (NYDB) is the trusted digital infrastructure capturing the rich, multifaceted demographic footprint of Nigeria’s young populace.
A flagship initiative of the Federal Ministry of Youth Development powered by Pogma Nigeria Limited, NYDB provides a centralized, secure and scalable national platform for collecting, organizing and utilizing reliable youth data.
The platform consolidates verified information on youth demographics, educational achievements, entrepreneurial ventures, skills and competencies, creating a clear and accessible baseline for understanding Nigeria’s youth population and ensuring that policies, programmes and interventions reach the communities and young people that need them most.
NYDB is more than a database. It is a national youth data and intelligence infrastructure for better decisions, better opportunities and better outcomes.
A National Imperative
The establishment of the National Youth Data Bank is a critical national necessity and one of the vital tools for the successful implementation of the Renewed Hope Initiatives of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.
The NYDB provides the national data infrastructure needed to support youth empowerment, employment creation, efficient policy implementation and sustainable national development.
By establishing a reliable and continuously evolving national profile of Nigeria's youth, NYDB provides government with the planning tools, actionable intelligence and monitoring systems required to design effective youth-focused policies and programmes, target interventions where they are most needed, and measure their impact.
Value Chain
Why NYDB?
Nigeria has a large and diverse youth population, yet youth-related information has traditionally been fragmented across ministries, agencies, programmes and other institutions.
This makes it difficult to establish a clear picture of:
- Who Nigeria’s young people are
- Where they are located
- What they have studied and what skills they possess
- Who is employed, unemployed or seeking opportunities
- Who is engaged in entrepreneurship
- What opportunities and support young people require
- Who has benefited from youth-focused interventions
- Where gaps in youth development programmes exist
NYDB is designed to bridge this gap by transforming fragmented youth information into a coordinated national resource for action.
NYDB: Anchored in Nigeria's Youth Development Policy
The National Youth Data Bank is aligned with the principles and strategic direction established by Nigeria's National Youth Policy, particularly its commitment to evidence-based youth development, inclusive participation, effective coordination and measurable outcomes.
The Policy recognizes young people as a critical national resource and emphasizes the importance of understanding and responding to their needs, aspirations and capacities.
“Young people are the most important and valuable resource of the nation...”
— National Youth Policy, 2019
The Policy also identifies inadequate monitoring, weak coordination and lack of evaluation as challenges that have constrained effective youth-policy implementation.
“...the absence of a formal multi-sectoral coordination mechanism; inadequate monitoring and lack of evaluation of policy implementation...”
— National Youth Policy, 2019
NYDB provides a digital infrastructure capable of supporting this policy direction by creating a reliable national profile and enabling better planning, targeting, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of youth-focused programmes.
“...commits to evidence based approach.”
— National Youth Policy, 2019
“NYDB draws upon and supports the strategic principles and development priorities articulated in Nigeria's National Youth Policy, while applying its own approved project scope and target population.”
From Policy to Action
National Youth Policy
Vision • Priorities • Strategic Direction
NYDB
Data • Intelligence • Planning • Coordination
Youth Programmes & Opportunities
Skills • Jobs • Enterprise • Inclusion
Measurable Youth Development Outcomes
From Data to Opportunity
NYDB transforms youth information into actionable intelligence that can support government, authorized institutions and development partners.
IDENTIFY
Establish a reliable national profile of young Nigerians.
PROFILE
Understand education, qualifications, skills, employment, entrepreneurship and other relevant characteristics.
CONNECT
Facilitate pathways between eligible youth and relevant jobs, training, enterprise and other opportunities.
COORDINATE
Support better coordination of youth-focused programmes and interventions across authorized institutions.
MEASURE
Enable monitoring of programme reach, participation, effectiveness and outcomes.
Strategic HorizonOur Vision
To build Nigeria's most trusted and comprehensive youth data ecosystem that supports inclusive development, evidence-based policymaking, and sustainable youth empowerment across every community.
Core MandateOur Mission
To collect, manage, and maintain reliable youth data that enables government agencies and global development partners to design and scale programs that measurably improve lives and accelerate national prosperity.
NYDB and the President's Renewed Hope Agenda
The National Youth Data Bank (NYDB) is strategically aligned with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda, particularly its focus on youth empowerment, job creation, skills development, digital transformation, human-capital development and inclusive economic growth.
The NYDB provides the national data infrastructure needed to identify Nigeria's young people, understand their skills and aspirations, connect them with appropriate opportunities, and measure the outcomes of government interventions.
This directly supports the President's vision of placing young Nigerians at the centre of Nigeria's economic transformation.
“Young people are our greatest asset. Their energy, creativity, and technological prowess must be fully harnessed to propel our country into a new era of economic transformation.”
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
28 February 2025
Translating Vision into Action
Through a reliable profile of young Nigerians across States, Local Government Areas, education, skills, employment, entrepreneurship and areas of opportunity, NYDB can help support government to:
- Identify and reach young Nigerians who require opportunities and support
- Match skills to opportunities, including jobs, training and enterprise
- Improve targeting and coordination of youth-focused government programmes
- Support digital and technology-driven youth empowerment
- Strengthen evidence-based policy and planning
- Measure the outcomes of youth development interventions
This supports the Administration's emphasis on moving from skills development to productive economic participation, creating “jobs, restoring dignity to work, and opening up a future of possibilities for our youth.”
H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
H.E. Kashim Shettima (GCON)
Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Comrade Ayodele Olawande
Honourable Minister of Youth Development
Who Benefits?
GOVERNMENT
Better data for policy formulation, programme planning, budgeting, coordination, monitoring and impact measurement.
YOUNG NIGERIANS
Greater visibility, inclusion and access to relevant opportunities, programmes and services.
PRIVATE SECTOR
Access to better youth skills intelligence to support recruitment, partnerships, innovation and enterprise development.
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
Reliable data to support programme design, monitoring, evaluation and alignment with national and global development priorities.
Building a More Inclusive Youth Development System
NYDB is designed to improve the visibility of young people who may be underrepresented in existing datasets, including youth in rural communities and other underserved groups.
Inclusion and national coverage.
A Foundation for Better Decisions
By strengthening the national understanding of Nigeria's youth population, NYDB can help ensure that policies, programmes and opportunities are increasingly guided by evidence, need and potential.
Core Principles
“NYDB is building the data foundation for a more informed, inclusive and empowered generation of Nigerians.”
How NYDB Registration Works
A Simple, Secure Journey from Registration to Opportunity
- STEP 1
ARRIVE
Visit an Approved NYDB Cluster Point (Registration Centre):
Visit an approved NYDB registration venue within your: State • LGA • School • Special Designated Location
Trained NYDB registration personnel will welcome you, explain the process and guide you through registration.
- STEP 2
ELIGIBILITY CHECK
Confirm Your Eligibility:
A registration officer will conduct a brief preliminary check to establish your eligibility based on the approved NYDB age requirement.
- STEP 3
BUILD YOUR YOUTH PROFILE
Register Your Profile
Accuracy Matters
The information given contributes to the accuracy of Nigeria's national youth profile. Please ensure that the information you provide is accurate.
- STEP 4
COMPLETE YOUR REGISTRATION
Consent. Confirm.
The NYDB system validates required information as you register.
Your NYDB Journey Continues
Registration is not the end of the journey.
Your NYDB profile helps create the foundation for connecting eligible young Nigerians with relevant opportunities and supporting better youth-focused programmes.
Your registration helps build the data foundation needed to connect Nigeria's youth with the opportunities that can help them learn, work, innovate and prosper.
You are a Vital Part of Nigeria's Future
Every young Nigerian has a story, a talent, and a dream. The National Youth Data Bank serves as a unified federal initiative ensuring our policies and programs are driven by exact facts and verified needs.
Your Future. Your Data. Your Opportunity.