Don’t Celebrate Criminals – Tuface
Internationally celebrated afro-pop singer, Innocent “Tuface” Idibia, has been very vocal lately on topics such as voters’ education, good governance and the herdsmen crisis. This time he has something to say to youths who celebrate criminal-minded politicians. Speaking Out The popular singer, who rose from the boy group “Plantashun Boys” to becoming one of Africa’s […]
Exclusive: Super Sand Eagles Star Abu Azeez Gives Back to Community with Beach Soccer Coaching
About 100 young students between the ages of 6 and 14 turned out for the first edition of The Beach Soccer Project, a coaching clinic sponsored by Super Sand Eagles’ Abu Azeez which took centre stage at St. Micheal’s Primary School, Ojo, Lagos. In this project, Abu Azeez has taken it upon himself to educate […]
What I Wish I Had Done Differently as a JAMBITE (Part 1)
I can still vividly remember the very first day I set foot in the University of Benin. It was not only my first visit to the school where I would spend the next 5 years of my life, it was my first time on a University campus. Fifteen years old, eight months out of secondary […]
How Experience Kills
When you think of us Nigerians well enough, you will come to find out our many errors. We have a government that promised change at all levels of governance. These leaders play on one philosophy that has held our psyche hostage. They say experience is almost always everything there is to competence. That you need […]
Happy International Youth Day!
Youths around the world are celebrating International Youth Day today, and by all means, they should. Being a young person isn’t as easy as it seems with us having some very big shoes to fill and a unique sense of pressure – the good kind – being placed on us by the generations before us. […]
Y-Farm Project to Establish 10,000 Youth Led Agric Businesses in Nigeria by 2020
A group of enterprising farmers called the Fresh and Young Brains Development Initiative recently declared their intent to establish 10,000 youth led agric businesses in the country by 2020. This was stated at the first National Youth Agricultural Festival which took place on 19th March, 2015 in the country’s capital, Abuja. The group’s ‘Y-Farm project’ […]
3 Reasons Why We Love Chude Jideonwo
Like many, my Twitter timeline was flooded by a great number of Happy Birthday tweets two days ago (March 16th), all crafted for one special person. The Man of the Moment was Mr. Chude Jideonwo, a serial media entrepreneur, journalist, author, social activist, youth advocate and my personal role model (Sadly, I can’t claim him as […]