•Gunmen The Yoruba Afenifere Youth Organisation of Nigeria (YAYON) has issued a resolution calling for immediate and coordinated action to address the escalating security challenges in the southwest region and other Yoruba-speaking states. The resolution followed a security summit held yesterday at the House of Chiefs, Secretariat, Ibadan wher...
•Soldiers Brigadier-General Chima Ekeator, leader of the Nigerian Army Force Headquarters Recruitment Sensitisation Team in Anambra, has expressed concern over the low turnout of applicants from the South-East in the ongoing Army recruitment exercise. Speaking during a sensitisation session with youth leaders and President-Generals (P-Gs) of v...
Some youths have looted Ramadan palliative reportedly meant to be distributed in Gombe State by Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Seyi has been visiting northern states where he joined residents and political leaders for breaking of fast (Iftar), reports Daily Trust. During such visits, the President’s son usually launches Ramad...
•Tinubu The federal government has introduced the National Health Programmes for youths across all 774 local government areas in Nigeria. A statement by the president’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga yesterday, also called for applications from persons aged between 25 and 35. “The Tinubu administration is requesting applications from young Nigeria...
•AYCF national president, Shettima Yerima The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has called on the Northern Governors who had initially presented a united front against the proposed tax reforms, citing concerns about their potential negative impact on the already struggling Northern economy, to provide a clear and transparent explanation f...
•Rampaging youths (Photo for illustration purposes only) Pandemonium erupted yesterday evening in the Hallelujah community of Egbedore Local Government Area in Osun State when angry youths assaulted the newly installed Ajeniju of Hallelujah, Oba Jelili Olaiya, while he was attempting to conduct Jumat prayers in the area. The youths, disregardi...
•Emmanuela Arikpo Ahead of the national youth conference scheduled to be held in the first quarter of 2025, a policy researcher, Emmanuella Arikpo, has challenged young people not to attend the confab with a business-as-usual mindset. Arikpo lamented that youths often attend conferences not to talk about the real issues confronting them but be...
•Prof Pat Utomi Political economist, Prof Pat Utomi, says successive governments in Nigeria have treated young people like idiots. “Governments have not been trustworthy in Nigeria, let’s be very frank,” Utomi said on Channels Television today. “It has treated young people like they are idiots, repeatedly, and this is sad because most governme...
•Tinubu The Niger Delta Youth Congress (NDYC) has rejected the proposed Tax Reform Bill introduced by the Tinubu administration, describing it as one that “represents an alarming departure from the principles of equity and shared prosperity upon which our nation was built.” The youths disclosed this yesterday in a statement signed and released...
•Tinubu The North’s resentment of the proposed Tax Reform Bills currently at the National Assembly,NASS, has expanded as northern youths attacked Deputy Senate President Senator Barau Jibrin yesterday, accusing him of being insensitive to the region. They described the bills as anti-North, saying it would further relegate the region economical...

