Africa’s Global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, joined the rest of the world on Friday, May 24, 2024, to mark this year’s edition of the Africa Day. The celebration which went on concurrently across all of its subsidiaries in Africa as well as in the United Kingdom, France, United States of America and […]
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has accused the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa of serving as a minister while undertaking the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme. In a statement on Thursday, HURIWA alleged that years back, Musawa abandoned her NYSC in Ebonyi state but later showed interest […]
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Sixteen extraordinary individuals including innovators, activists and entrepreneurs from 12 countries have been shortlisted for this year’s Commonwealth Youth Awards. A pan-Commonwealth judging panel met last week and selected the top individuals in each of the award’s four regional categories. This year, the awards received more than 500 entries from 40 countries. Of those shortlisted, the […]
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Facebook says it has partnered Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) and Junior Achievement Nigeria to launch an Online Safety Programme for students in Nigerian secondary schools across the country. Facebook’s Policy Programmes Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sherry Dzinoreva said in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, that the schools were in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Ibadan and Kaduna. In […]
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has charged Corps members deployed to the State to join forces in the fight against economic crimes, women and child trafficking and other vices. Obaseki gave the charge on Thursday at the occasion of the swearing-in ceremony of the 2018 batch “C” Corps members held at the National Youth […]
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says 76 percent of Nigerians are between ages 0 to 24, as the country’s population hits 195.9 million. In its UNFPA state of world population report themed “The power of choice: Reproductive rights and the demographic,” the UN agency revealed that 148.8 million Nigerians are under the age of […]
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Former Governor of Kwara State and President of Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki says the Nigerian youth have what it takes to compete with their counterparts in any part of the wold. Mr. Saraki stated this on Sunday when he visited the Kwara state orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Saraki said leaders […]
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During the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, DC, African philanthropist and entrepreneur Tony O. Elumelu insisted that prioritizing Africa’s youth by fixing the policy and regulatory issues impeding their innovations would also help attract foreign investors. The Tony Elumelu Foundation Founder spoke alongside World Bank President […]
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