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President Bola Tinubu has announced a 30-day confab for youths in the country to discuss and address challenges confronting them.
Tinubu stated this on Tuesday during Nigeria’s 64th Independence Day Anniversary Broadcast.
The President said the modalities of the confab and selection of delegates would be designed as soon as possible.
“As we work to overcome the challenges of the day, we remain mindful of the next generation as we seek to galvanise their creative energy towards a better future,” he said during his second Independence Day Anniversary Broadcast since he assumed office on May 29, 2023.
“We lead today with the future we wish to bequeath to our children in focus, recognising that we cannot design a future that belongs to them without making them its architects.
“Considering this, I am pleased to announce the gathering of a National Youth Conference. This conference will be a platform to address the diverse challenges and opportunities confronting our young people, who constitute more than 60 per cent of our population.
“It will provoke meaningful dialogue and empower our young people to participate actively in nation-building. By ensuring that their voices are heard in shaping the policies that impact their lives, we are creating a pathway for a brighter tomorrow.
“The 30-day Confab will unite young people nationwide to collaboratively develop solutions to issues such as education, employment, innovation, security, and social justice.
“The modalities of this Confab and selection of delegates will be designed in close consultation with our young people through their representatives. Through this confab, it will be our job as leaders to ensure that their aspirations are at the heart of the conference’s deliberations.
“The government will thoroughly consider and implement the recommendations and outcomes from this forum as we remain resolute in our mission to build a more inclusive, prosperous, and united Nigeria.”
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has issued a public summon against immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.
The court ordered Bello to attend court and answer to a fresh 16-count charge pending against him.
By the summons, Bello is to attend court on October 24 for his arraignment alongside two other defendants.
Justice Maryanne Anenih issued the order for public summons in a ruling on Thursday, following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Justice Anenih ordered the EFCC to publish the public summons in a widely circulating newspaper
She also ordered the EFCC to paste copies of the public summons on Bello’s last known address and in conspicuous places in the court premises.
The EFCC had claimed that it has been unable to serve Bello with the charge filed on September 24, in which the ex-governor and two others were charged with criminal breach of trust to the tune of N110.4billion.
The other two defendants in the charge are Umar Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu.
Bello’s absence stalled the arraignment earlier scheduled for Thursday.
President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday depart Abuja for London, the United Kingdom, for two weeks.
Sources close to the President confirmed to newsmen that Tinubu was taking the two-week break “as part of his annual leave.”
He is expected back in the country on October 16, 2024.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) flag carrier Emirates flight has resumed its Dubai-Lagos daily flights on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 after a two-year break.
The airline’s flight landed at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, MMIA, in Lagos on Tuesday afternoon as Nigerians celebrate 64 years of independence from British colonial rule.
The over eight-hour flight touched down at the airport at 3:32 pm, according to air traffic controllers.
Emirates Airlines suspended its Dubai-Lagos flights in November 2022 over its inability to repatriate trapped funds in Nigeria in the heat of the diplomatic fireworks between the two countries.
Nigeria and the UAE have a long history of restriction of flights between both countries based on certain unresolved issues surrounding the Bilateral Air Services Agreement, BASA.
Visa restrictions later surfaced as diplomatic fireworks continued between Nigeria and the UAE, which is a top destination for Nigerian migrants and tourists.
However, in September 2023, President Bola Tinubu met with UAE President, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi, to smoothen the rough edges in the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Subsequently, in May 2024, Emirates Airlines said its daily Lagos-Dubai flights would resume from October 1, 2024.
Two months later, the Federal Government of Nigeria reached an agreement with the UAE to allow Nigerian passport holders to obtain visas for travel to the Arab nation.
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