The Flexible Skills Development Centre, Yaba College of Technology in collaboration with the Common wealth of Learning (COL) has promoted skill acquisition among youths in order to ameliorate the high rate of unemployment in the country. The programme sponsored by Jaiz Charity Development Center trained 82 young Nigerians on vegetable farming, video camera operation and…

Your ambition is poor if it is all about making money. Money is not the end; it is a means to the end. Garth Brooks said: “You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.” Life is not all about money; it is living out on something that outlives you. The true worth of…

Plans are underway by the Rivers State University to set up a fashion village in collaboration with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre Limited. The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Blessing Didia, said the centre is intended to train youths in the state on fashion skills to mass produce cover all, uniforms for schools and industries,…

The Commandant, 16th Brigade, Brig. Gen. Kelvin Aligbe, yesterday, led other security agencies in Bayelsa State to participate in a peace marathon ahead of the general elections. The race organised by I Run For Peace Initiative (IFPI) in collaboration with the Bayelsa State Ministry of Youth, was to douse tension following security concerns. Scores of physically…

A youth group, the Atikulation 2019 Support Movement in Gombe State has urged the Northeast zone to support Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to ensure that he wins the election. This is coming a day after the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Rally in Gombe and the youths’ endorsement of Atiku,…

If the final list of registered voters for the 2019 general election recently released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will determine the outcome of the poll, whosoever must emerge as Nigeria’s next president has to be popular among the youths.

The Leventis Foundation has trained over 25,000 youths across the country in modern and sustainable agricultural practices. The Executive Director of the organisation, Dr. Hope Usieta, disclosed this recently at the Foundation’s 30th anniversary in Abuja. He also announced that the Foundation, in its 30 years of existence, expended about N1 billion to train and…

The Kebbi State All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Alliance has warned politicians not to used Nigerian youths for political thuggery. Chairman of the group, Alhaji Yahayah Dan-Illela, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi that they have been counselling youths engaged in thuggery and drugs abused in the state on the dangers of these vices, assuring President…

At birth, she was christened Beauty. As if her parents did that after peering at a crystal ball the way clairvoyants and fortune-tellers do, she turned out to be a combination of beauty, brawn and brains.

The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has called on youths in the state not to be misled by criminals and cultists masquerading as politicians. Dickson said the sole motivation of such unscrupulous characters was to destabilise and subvert his administration’s achievements in the past seven years. The Governor made the comment during a live radio…

Taraba State Governor, Darius Dickson Ishaku has raised alarm over high rate of drug abuse among youths in the state. The situation has made the governor to support a non-governmental organisation with N100m for establishment of a rehabilitation centre to cater for victims of drug and substance abuse. Commending his wife, Mrs. Anna Ishaku for…

Irked by economic crisis bedeviling businesses in the country, experts have identified reinvention of businesses as key to sustainable intrapreneurship in Nigeria.     Experts who gathered at the Hot Topics Africa forum with the theme: ‘Sustainable business, intrapreneurship and the future of work,’ in Lagos, said intrapreneurship is key to addressing disruption of businesses through…