Tag: Youths
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Don’t contest against me in 2019, Buhari tells youths after signing NTYTR Bill
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday advised Nigerian youths to postpone their presidential ambitions till after 2019. Buhari, who has declared his interest in seeking re-election during the 2019 elections, gave the advice shortly after signing Not-Too-Young-to-Run Bill into law at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He described the bill as a landmark law, noting that the…
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Democracy Day: Delta Govt. creates jobs for additional 1450 youths, women
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta said on Tuesday that the state government provided jobs for 1,450 youths and women in the 4th circle of his administration’s job creation programme. Okowa who stated this at a thanksgiving service marking the Democracy Day in Asaba, said that his administration placed high premium on job creation to ensure…
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2019: Hope for Nigerian youths as Buhari promises to sign ‘Not Too Young to Run’ bill
As the country marks the nineteenth year of its democracy, President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that he will, in few days, sign into law the ‘Not too young to run’ bill. The President made this promise in a nationwide broadcast in commemoration of the nation’s Democracy Day early on Tuesday. He said, “In few days…
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2018 World Cup: NAPTIP alerts public on plan to traffic Nigerian youths
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has alerted the general public on plans by human traffickers to use the upcoming World Cup to traffic Nigerian youths. The Director-General of NAPTIP, Ms Julie Okah-Donli, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Abuja. Okah-Donli explained that part of the plot…
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Youths protest over El-Zakzaky detention, grounds federal secretariat
Shiite youths protesting the continued detention of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, have grounded the Federal Secretariat complex, Abuja, as they took over the roads in the area. The secretariat complex is a few metres from the National Assembly and the Presidential Villa. The youths, who were armed with stones, chased away…
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85 percent mad people in Nigeria are youths, get high on lizard droppings
The President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN), Dr Taiwo Sheikh, says according to a recent study that 85% of mad people in Nigeria are youths who fall between the age of 18-38. The Psychiatrist in a recent interview with Daily Independent, said the major cause of mental challenge in Nigeria has gone…
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Obasanjo the ‘Messiah’ decides for youths, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Fielding questions from journalists during ceremonies marking his 80th anniversary in Abeokuta in 2017, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was asked if he had forgiven Professor Wole Soyinka, as regards the Nobel Laureate’s campaign against his unsuccessful bid for the Secretary General of the United Nations in 1991. His response: “You’re absolutely wrong.…
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‘Go to farm, earn yourselves some respect’ Buhari tells ‘lazy’ Nigerian youths
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised both the educated and uneducated youths in the country should go into farming to earn respect for themselves. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement Tuesday, quoted Buhari as saying this at Blair House, Washington DC, after his White House engagements…
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Kogi youth threaten INEC officials, oppose Melaye’s recall
Voters in Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi have shunned the ongoing verification exercise organised by INEC to authenticate the signatures of voters seeking to recall Sen. Dino Melaye (APC/Kogi West). Correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), monitoring the exercise in Mr Melaye’s Kogi West Senatorial District, observed that the polling units were empty,…
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2019: Get involved, stop bothering old men like me – Soyinka charges youths
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Thursday advised Nigerian youths to get involved in politics and stop politicians of his age from getting any political office come 2019. Soyinka spoke at Elizade University, Ilara Mokin, Ondo State while delivering the institution’s 2nd convocation lecture. Addressing the topic, Tending the Tree of Commencement, the literary professor,…