Nigeria, Nov. 22 -- The minister of youth and sports, Sunday Dare, on Thursday said for any nation to reach its full potentials, it must leverage the power of technology to empower its teeming youth.

He also explained how his ministry hopes to utilise a new concept, tagged DEEL, to empower the Nigerian youth during his tenure.

Mr Dare said this when he flagged off the Citizen and Leadership Training Centre (CLTC) Online School aimed at making leadership courses available to mostly youth, government officials and the corporate world.

Established in 1951, the CLTC is a parastatal in the ministry.

It prides itself "as a human development outfit established to offer programmes for the training and moulding of Nigerian citizens to become r...