Youths

VIDEO: Money Shared To Dissuade Igbo Youths From Joining #EndBadGovernance Protest As Ohanaeze Youth Group Calls For Boycott

5 months ago1025 min

Video obtained by SaharaReporters shows Igbo youths in Southeast Nigeria receiving payments to reject the upcoming #EndBadGovernance protest. The youths, brought together in Enugu, later revealed they received between N10,000 and N15,000 to dissuade their participation in the protest scheduled for August 1-10. While they denied knowledge of the sponsors’ identities, some observed that this was the first time money was distributed at an Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth gathering. One of them said, “I...

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20 arrested as police, Ogun youths clash over traditional festival

5 months ago826 min

The Ikenne township in the Ikenne Local Government area of Ogun State was for a better part of Saturday engulfed in a crisis as some youth insisted on celebrating the annual Oro festival despite the government’s ban. PUNCH Metro gathered that the crisis had been building for some days now with the youths holding protests in the town and telling whoever cared that they would celebrate the annual festival with or without the government’s approval....

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Arewa Youths Tell Tinubu Govt: No Going Back On Planned Protest On #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria

5 months ago924 min

The Arewa Youth Ambassadors, a northern group, has vowed to continue with the planned protest scheduled to commence on August 1, aimed at expressing its dissatisfaction with President Bola Tinubu’s anti-people policies. The group also debunked the rumours making the rounds that it had shelved the mass action saying the information was false and misleading just as it called on Nigerians to ignore it. This was disclosed in a statement signed...

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Hausa Organisation Advises Kinsmen Against Joining Fulani-Organised Protests Against Tinubu, Reminds Youths Such Was Forbidden Under Buhari

5 months ago1486 min

A Hausa socio-cultural group under the umbrella of Hausawa Tsantsa Development Association (HTDA) has raised an alarm alleging that some Fulani people are plotting to instigate protests against President Bola Tinubu’s government. The group, which made the allegation in a statement dated July 9 and signed by Kalthoom Alumbe Jitami, warned all Hausa youths across Nigeria against participating in the alleged planned protests, asking Hausa youths to be wary and vigilant of the plots....

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News

44-year-old Senegalese President: Nigerian Youths Doing ‘Tag Along,’ More Interested In Becoming Special Assistants To Governors Or Senators, Says Sowore

9 months ago51811 min

#RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore has faulted the attitude of young Nigerians to challenge the old guards in the country for key political positions following the inauguration of 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the Senegalese president. Sowore, the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections, however, cautioned people not to be quick to celebrate Faye’s political feat, saying time would tell if he would be a leader of...