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Youth Mentoring in Nigeria: As with mentoring everywhere, informal mentoring predates the formal style of mentoring. Informal mentoring is how youths are educated and family traditions, instructions and rituals were passed through generations. However the formal mentoring in nigeria is seen in various sectors including the academia, business as well as other sectors. Nigerian youths are widely known for their enterpreneural skills, More than 80% of them irrespective of gender are said to have the potential enterpreneural mentoring as a way of investing in their future. Although informal mentoring has been the original form of mentoring, formal mentoring in academia exist but with a largely male predominace thereby causing a skewed dyad that require training and improvement of formal training structures available. Barriers to mentoring includes lack of funding, lack of trust and the lack of formal structures especially for young women in mentoring. This is not an exhaustive list as there is a call for the development of more research into youth mentoring in the Nigerian context. Several community efforts by non governmental agencies such as We Aspire Youth Mentorship Initiative a youth based group encourages youths male and female alike to engage in peer-based mentoring.