Some youths and women of the All Progressives Congress (APC) today thronged the party’s secretariat in Benin City, the Edo State capital in protest against the outcome of Saturday’s governorship primary election which produced three winners. The group who removed furniture and other items from the secretariat and promised to camp outside the f...
•’Japa’ Nigeria’s economic crisis has plunged millions of its citizens into poverty. The situation is dire in the northern region, where insecurity, poor infrastructure and low human capacity development have worsened living conditions. In this report, our correspondent captures a migration trend among northern youths who leave the...
•Gani Adams A group, Oodua Youth Coalition (OYC) has charged the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams to, as a matter of urgency, intervene in the growing insecurity in the South West region. The group also called on Adams to urgently work out the best approach to tackle the security challenges in the […]
•Amotekun A body of Yoruba youth groups, Yoruba Youth Socio-Cultural Association (YYSA), yesterday, decried pervasive and pervading kidnappings in the South-West. This was contained in a statement signed by Olalekan Hammed (National President) and Olawale Ajao (National Secretary) and made available to our correspondent in Ibadan, the Oyo Stat...
A coalition of Youth groups in the 19 northern states, Arewa Youth Ambassadors (AYA), called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration not to sell crude oil to Dangote Petroleum Refinery (DPR), in dollars but naira. They also ask President Tinubu to continue working with the private refinery owners, particularly DPR and provide them with crude...
A group, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has alleged that over 5,000 Nigerian youths are illegally detained in the ReÂpublic of Benin and asked the Federal Government to investiÂgate it. At a press conference in Abuja, the group urged the federal govÂernment to investigate its claims, adding that its members had emÂbarked on month-long resea...
•Gunmen The Middle Belt Youth Forum said it has suspended its planned peace walk to demand an end to the incessant kidnapping and killings that have ravaged the region and some parts of the country. The Executive Director of a co-organising agency with the youth group, Africa’s Morning Centre, Chima Christian, disclosed this in a […]...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, yesterday, raised the alarm that youths in Borno State are drinking fermented human urine, preserved over 10 days, as an alternative to hard drugs. The Commander of Narcotics of the NDLEA in Borno State, Iliyasu Mani, disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri. He said abuse of psychoactive substances ...
The Niger Delta Youth Congress (NDYC) yesterday Saturday, December 9, faulted the decisions of the Court of Appeal on the governorship disputes in Plateau, Kano and Zamfara states. The youths, which cited verdicts on governorship elections in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara states, said discriminatory application of legal standards between the North...
Panic has gripped Jos and Bukuru metropolis in Plateau State over alleged plans by youths to raze the Court of Appeal building in protest against the judgments of the court, which sacked all the National Assembly members elected under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). They have also resolved to hold what they described […]

