Nigeria: Osun - Harnessing Youth for Progress

7 February 2013

To empower youths in the society, the Osun State Government engaged 20,000 unemployed graduates in a youth empowerment scheme that saw the graduation of about 19,000 of them recently, Adeola Akinremi writes

After two years, Abdul Azeez Yussuf, an indigene of Egbedore, a community in Osun State beats his chest convincingly and said, "I am now a made man." Yussuf has just graduated from the Osun State Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES).

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