This Day (Lagos)
11 November 2008
According to statistics, Nigeria has a youth population of 80 million, with 64 million of them unemployed. Abimbola Akosile spoke with the Founder, Youth Empowerment and Enterprise Development (YEED) Initiative and Executive Director, Momentum Africa Initiative (MAI), Abuja, Mr. Rufus Aiyenigba, on human capital investment and related issues. Excerpts:
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MYname is Aishat Foluke Folayan,am 15 years old i attend TheLearingfield Secondary School Satellite Town. well i want to talk on Nigeria developing as a country i think if Nigerian can work on their natural resources they will be able to make this country develpoed,everything can't be done by the government ,we need to work hand in hand to make this county a great country a great nation in times likethis where by Nigeria are beinging to have economy turn down ,as a country we need to be strong. If government can employ industrious worker,vivaous graduates i don,t think Nigeria will be listless when developing i believe Nigeria is a great nation lets make it a great nation ,we can't keep depending on oil we have our farmers who are ready to work , if we farm well we can use the farm money to open up our own indusrtries ,i think the foreigners have over nationalised us,example all noodles sold in Nigeria are that of foreigners and it is our farm product they are using for this nooddles ,Nigeria will need to seat up. i will take you back as far 1953 when we were met to be given independence because Anthony Enahoro requested for it and Ahmadu bello said we should given indenpendces when particable nd the caused the kano riot on 1956 we agreed ongaining independences come 1960 we were not given totally until 1963 Nigeria need to wake we are the best in the world i don't see why we need to be slaves to fireigners for a very long time . pls i need a fast reply