A youth group in the All Progressive Congress (APC), South West – Progressive Youth Movement (PYM), has endorsed he candidature of former Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Dr Fashogbon Oluwatayo Solomon ahead of the party’s national convention. Oshiomhole is aspiring for the position of National Chairman, while frontline youth advocate, Fashogbon is eyeing […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has established a US$ 3 million Rockefeller Trust Fund, a joint effort of the Bank and The Rocke feller Foundation to help in spurring Africa’s transformation in agriculture and youth empowerment. With this initial endowment, the Trust Fund will support the Bank’s activities particularly with regard to two of […]
Europe’s first ethnic media satellite channel’s founder and its former CEO, Mr. Ali Soyode, has formally declared his intention to run for Nigeria’s President in 2019. Soyode is also the convener of YES Nigeria, a fast-rising positive and innovative movement in the country. Addressing stakeholders and supporters in the country’s capital, Abuja on Monday, Soyode […]
Despite the outrage generated by his comment on young persons in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has again spoken on the “uneducated” youth. While speaking at a Commonwealth forum in London, Buhari had said a lot of Nigerian youths have not been to school and they want everything free, banking on the notion that Nigerian […]
Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Monday pledged that his administration would fix dilapidated infrastructure at National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in the state. Ugwuanyi also directed the State Rural Electrification Board to immediately restore light to the camp which had not been with public power supply for several years. The governor […]
The Youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN), has said the Nigerian youths come 2019 will use their permanent voters card PVC to vote President Muhammadu Buhari out of office aimed at demonstrating to Mr President that youths in Nigeria are not lazy. YOWICAN stated this on Sunday while reacting to the comment […]
The National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye, has lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments in London describing Nigerian youths as lazy and uneducated. Faulting the President, Udeh-Okoye insisted, in a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday, that the Nigerian youths remained the “most innovative, enterprising, […]
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), has again urged Nigerians to ensure that only the younger generations were voted to power in the country. This came on a day former Military President also threw his weight behind the newly formed Northern Elders Forum, led by Alhaji Tanko Yakasai. Babangida, spoke at his country […]
A call has gone to National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, particularly those who have completed their one-year mandatory service to think of being self-reliance rather than looking for white collar jobs. Giving the charge was the Head of Service, Oyo State, Mrs Hannah Ogunesan, during an enlightenment talk for the outgoing 2017 Batch A […]
Winners of the youth empowerment Essay/ Debate project Q1 2018, organised by the Association for Credible Leadership in Nigeria (ACLN) have been unveiled at an award ceremony which held in Lagos. The competition which focused on Youth Participation in Nigerian politics and governance brought together students of private and government owned secondary schools in Lagos […]
A group committed to national career development and empowerment for young Nigerians, the Career and Youth Development Initiative (CYDI), has endorsed Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for a second term in office, describing him as a promise keeper. The group at a media briefing by its Director-General, Mr. Henry Ejiofor Asogwa in Abuja noted […]
The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has canvassed for more entrepreneurial support and 30 percent affirmation for the Nigerian youth in the political sphere of the nation which is from the centre to the Local Governments. The Director of the Directorate, Comrade (Amb) Obinna Nwaka said this on Thursday at the NYCN 2018, 2nd […]
A coalition of Niger Delta Youth have advised former President Atiku Abubakar to suspend his presidential ambition, telling him to play leadership role in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). They also cautioned Senator Ben-Murray Bruce for flaunting Atiku, reminding him that Atiku was the reason that former President Goodluck Jonathan lost his reelection in 2015. […]
The President, African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has launched the Presidential Youth Advisory Group (PYAG), an initiative that will create 25 million jobs. PYAG, launched on the side-lines of the 6th EU-Africa Business Forum in Abidjan, would provide insights and innovative solutions for job creation for Africa’s youth as outlined in the […]
….Urges more appointment for indigbo As the tussle for the 2019 general elections gather momentum, an apex youth organization in the South-east, Ohandigbo Youths Organization, has began mobilization for the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, urging that igbos should be given more appointment in government. The group said at a meeting held at Eziama […]
The Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA) on Wednesday in Kano launched a campaign: ‘We say no to Drug Abuse, Child Molestation and Yes to Youth Empowerment’. The campaign is coming at a time the state is experiencing an up surge in cases of Child Abuse as well as drug abuse which the state has the […]
An FCT High Court in Gudu, Abuja, on Monday, ordered that two men, John Tawo, 42, and Ishaku Adoja, 48, arraigned over alleged armed robbery be remanded in Kuje Prisons until November 7, 2017. Tawo and Adoja are facing two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery contrary to Section 1 and 6(b) of the […]
Members of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Seme, Badagry, Lagos State chapter have urged the Federal Government to review the decision to completely close land borders against importation in the country. They reasoned that, complete closure would be more counter-productive than the partial closure. The earlier partial closure, according to them, has had devastating […]
Youths in Rivers state have identified various factors coming between them and their desires to become ambassadors of peace in the country. In a dialogue session organized by Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, to commemorate the International Youths Day which was celebrated world–wide last Saturday, representatives of various youth organizations agreed that economic […]
Former Nigeria Ambassador to Guinea Bissau Chief Justina Eze, of Nigeria has urged youths to make honesty their trademark in business if they want to succeed in life. Eze gave the advice on Friday at University of Nigeria, Nsukka during the 2nd International conference organised by Young Innovators Forum in collaboration with Lifyead Africa and […]