•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...
•Babatunde Fashola Former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has asked Nigerian youths to stay back in the country rather than seeking green pasture abroad amid the economic hardship. Fashola, who said youths must be able to do something better for themselves, noted that an end must be put to the mass […]
•Bandits The Chairman, Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Alhaji Isa Salihu Kalenjeni has raised the alarm over a foreign based armed religious group occupying a forest across five LGAs of the state, saying the group offers “youths N1million for membership.” The group locally known as Lakurawa was said to have migrated from Libya, ...
•Port Harcourt refinery The Niger Delta Youth Network (NDYN) has expressed outrage over the repeated delays in commencing fuel production at the Port Harcourt refinery, despite numerous promises. The refinery, with a capacity of 210,000 barrels per day, was expected to start refining 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily after reaching mechanical ...
•Street begging The saying that ‘Youths are the leaders of tomorrow’ may not come to be as the state of the economy has made it difficult for most parents to provide the necessities for their children to nurture them as leaders. These youths, of which many are undergraduates, are now seen at strategic places begging […]
The Bayelsa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has given the leadership of Oruma community in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state seven days to produce a pistol loaded with 15 rounds of live ammunition reportedly collected by some youths who attacked some operatives on an operation in the community […...
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