Nigeria’s Senate President, David Mark, has lamented that a vast majority of Nigeria’s youths have been lost to crime and other endeavors that undermine national development. Urging youths ahead of the forthcoming elections, Mark challenged youths to rise against the anomie, including electoral or political impunity, which had hitherto undermined Nigeria’s progress as a nation. [...]
Nigerian youths under the aegis of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has called for the immediate removal of the Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Inua AbdulKadir, from office. The youths had earlier protested the decision by the Ondo state Government to put on hold the congress of the council. This is contained in a [...]
The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has urged state and federal governments to resuscitate all ailing industries in the country in order to boost employment opportunities for Nigerian youths. Kwara State Chairman of the council Comrade Kazeem Adekanye, who stated this in a statement in Ilorin, said if all the moribund industries were revived, [...]
Some corps members have said that the NYSC/MDG’s/WAP Scheme initiative, which is meant to assist graduates now appears to have been hijacked by some corrupt public officials who are in charge of the scheme, given the shabby way it is being run. ENE OSANG writes The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [...]
The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth circuit, Lai Labode, has urged youths to abandon the illusive search for saints to take political leadership, saying no one is going to drop from heaven and do that. Labode who wrote a letter to all Nigerian youths stressed that what young people needed to properly design [...]
The Arewa Youths Forum (AYF), has charged President Goodluck Jonathan, to urgently stabilise the nation and bring visible transformation before the next election, vowing not to back his 2015 presidential bid if he falls short of this expectations. The AYF said they did not believe that Jonathan was qualified to run in 2015, having taken [...]
A Batch A female corp member, Ms Tolu Ekundayo, has been decamped from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Shagamu orientation camp in Ogun state, for wearing skirt instead of the trousers that comes with the khaki uniform. Ekundayo explained that her refusal to wear trousers was not in disobedience to NYSC authorities but in [...]
Hon. Abdullahi H. Maibasira is the Speaker, Nigeria Youth Parliament. In this interview with JOHN OBA, he laments the emphasis laid on youth management rather than youth development by those saddled with the responsibility, while calling on the government to reassess and redirect its attention to practical youth development initiatives The Parliament will be Five [...]
The issue of youth restiveness is almost becoming a household name in Nigeria. ENE OSANG examines why students of Nasarawa State University as well as Ebonyi state university protested recently A poet has once said that Nigerians always rejoice when you give them what is rightfully theirs. But it seems in Nigeria, those in authorities [...]
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