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In 2020, Adhama led the Nigerian Youth Task Force complementing the work of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 by deploying its army of volunteers which includes trained medical personnel with vivid knowledge of the pandemic. [8] [9] Adhama was listed as one of the 100 most influential youth in Nigeria by Avance Media. [10]
Yarima Ibrahim Abdullahi – Nigerian administrator. Served as the Nigerian high commissioner to Malaysia and Brunei. Sarki Auwalu – Director general of the Department of Petroleum Resources; Adamu Abdu-Kafarati – Former Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria; Suleiman Kassim – aviation secretary for the Ministry of Transportation
The four young men responsible for the 1993 Nigerian Airways hijack were Richard Ogunderu, 19, and Kabir Adenuga, Benneth Oluwadaisi and Kenny Rasaq-Lawal, who were all in their early 20s.
Enoch Adejare Adeboye started his education at Ilesha Grammar School Ilesha Osun State in 1956. [4] Enoch Adejare Adeboye then proceeded to the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in Nsukka, but because of the Nigeria Civil War, he completed his first degree in the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1967.
Nigerian youth have the right to vote in political elections at 18 years of age. [31] Nigerian youth are campaigning for reduction in age qualification for political position with the Not Too Young To Run bill, which seeks to reduce the age to run for president from 40 years to 30 years; Governor 35 to 30, Senate 35 to 30, House of ...
Ayo Sogunro (born 1984) is a Nigerian author, essayist and human rights lawyer. He is known for his work in social advocacy and for the protection of civil rights and the rights of sexual minorities in Nigeria. He was listed as one of the "100 Most Influential Nigerians" in 2017. [1]
The Young Progressives Party (YPP) is a social-democratic political party in Nigeria. The party was created to challenge the two major contemporary parties in Nigeria, the People's Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress. In its manifesto, it called for concerted efforts to improve welfare, fight for social justice and provide ...
Aliko Dangote (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist. Born in Kano to a wealthy Hausa family, he was educated in Kano, and was the great-grandson of Alhassan Dantata, the richest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955.