Apply for the SMEDAN Fashion Design Training For Nigerian Youths
The SMEDAN Fashion Design Training is a 3-month training in fashion design and garment production in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Read more about Opportunities It is an initiative born from a partnership between SMEDAN, the OSC Research and Creative Foundation, ACT Foundation, and the Ishk Tolaram Foundation. Sign up for the Connect Nigeria daily […]
Nigerian Youth in the Age of Social Media.
There is no denying the fact that the social media space has revolutionised our daily existence and experience. The introduction of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Imo just to mention a few have continued to engage our everyday life. No doubt, the average youth’s access to the internet has proliferated the way we engage with […]
Get Employed: Enrol for the N-Power Programme 2017
The N-power Programme, a job creation and empowerment programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria, opens portal for registration. The programme which kicked off in 2016 has engaged about 200,000 young Nigerians deploying them to public primary schools, primary healthcare centers, and Agricultural development projects in all the Local Government Areas in Nigeria. The N-power […]
Announcing ‘The Youth The Future 2016’ University Tour
The Youth The Future (TYTF) is a musical, dance, drama, art, poetry and comedy festival aimed at bringing entertaining, educative and interactive activities within the environment of universities. With a goal of creating a platform where youths can display their talents, TYTF engages youths in extracurricular activities like music, dance, comedy, drama, poetry, fashion, art […]
Rediscovering Nigeria: You Are the Hope of Nigeria if You are Between 15 and 35.
A lot of times, I hear helplessness in the words used by my peers about the state of our country. And quite often it gets me thinking. But at other times, I know the predicaments we face are the consequences of our silence. Countless upwardly-mobile young and middle-class folks use up their rather expensive […]
#NascoMoments: How to Make Social Media Work for You
This generation – born in the ‘80s, ‘90s and noughties – is defined by instant communication. With email, Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Pinterest and more, it’s hard to imagine how we survived back when we had to stand in queues with NITEL cards just to say, “I miss you.” The face of communication has changed, […]
ImpactLabs Opens Application For 2015 Summer Workshop
ImpactLabs, an initiative launched by students and graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, is returning to Nigeria for the second year and will partner with the Technology Innovation Lab (TIL) at Bells University of Technology in Ogun State. There will be free skills training for secondary school students and undergraduates which will run […]
The Modern Nigerian Youth and the Fate of Our Collective Patrimony
The Nigerian youth is a complex individual. He is socially amputated at many levels by the devious objectives of a clandestine government who has no plan for the growing population. At another end, he creates some of his problems as he directs his energies to unproductive ventures like restiveness, hooliganism, cultism and stealing. One of the burdens of […]
Nigeria and 5 Other African Countries to Benefit From The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation
Nigeria and five other African countries have been shortlisted to benefit from The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) $4.5 million youth empowerment initiative that will provide life skills training, business skills training and access to employment and mentoring for 25,000 young Africans. This disclosure was made at the weekend at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015, […]
The Principle of Growing Down
“They” refer to our generation as the Indomie Generation. Instant gratification’s the name of the game, with many of us wanting it all – success, money, sex, power, love and others – “now now” in our race against that imaginary clock that ticks away in the background. As for me, I can’t even front because […]