Nigeria: At 50, Former Sports Minister to Launch N50 Million Endowment Fund

Date: 2019-08-16

Former Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, Wednesday said he would soon launch a N50m endowment fund to provide opportunities for young people in the state on the matters of education and basic health care.

He said the failure of people of the country to be brother's keeper and share opportunities among themselves as it used to be in the past is a major challenge to the quest to see the country out of penury.

The former Minister who spoke with newsmen shortly after special prayer session to mark his 50th birthday ceremony held at his residence in Ilorin GRA, said "a lot of people in the country who have had opportunity to be successful in life have refused other people the benefit of such opportunity."

He noted that pupils and students are normally encouraged to be serious with their academic pursuit so that they could be successful in life and excel above those who refused to be serious.

He said while this is true in the past when the economy is good and job opportunities abounded in the country, it is hardly true in the present time because economy is poor and job opportunities are scarce.

Abdullahi recalled that in 1988 somebody he did not share blood relationship with gave him the opportunity to write Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination for admission into university when that person made a gift of N40 to him to seat for the examination.

He said while he is a Muslim from Ilorin in Kwara State, his benefactor then was a Christian and an Ekiti man from old Ondo State.

The former minister advised that the people of the country should promote among themselves a brotherly love that encourages them to share opportunities that could check poverty andaid development of the nation.

The ceremony was attended by his associates such as Moshood Mustapha, a former House of Representatives member and Muyideen Akorede, former Senior Special Assistant to a former governor of Kwara State.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bureau Of Lands     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     John Olajide Adedipe     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Matthew Okedare     Oyedepo     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Arandun     Ogidi-Oloje     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Buari Edun     SWAN     Oke-Ero     Osinbajo     Elerin Of Adanla     Ayedun     Mohammed Yisa     Salman Suleiman     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Shero     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Bamidele Adegoke     Garba Ado Sanni     Salaudeen Oyewale     Ubandoma     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Dairo Kunle Paul     Imam Gambari     Memunat Monsuma     University Road     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Micheal Imoudu     Olokoba     Apaokagi     Baba Issa Awoye     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     ENetSuD     Bayo Lawal     Hausa     Roheemat Hammed     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Adedipe     Jumoke F. Ajao     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Agboola Abdulraheem     Saadu Alanamu     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Agbarere     Lola Olabayo     Aliyu Alhassan     Abdulazeez Arowona     Sherif Sagaya     Ilorin South     Harafat E. Mukadam     Amosa     IYA ALFA NLA     Iyaloja-General     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Riskat Opakunle     Aisha Buhari     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Dan-Kazeem     CUTI     Ibrahim Akaje     Oyun     Yakubu Gobir     Dankaka     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Hamid Bobboyi     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Moses Rahman Popoola     Oro Grammar School     Demola Banu     IHS Towers    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Baaziki Sulaiman     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Abegunde Goke     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Babatunde Idiagbon     ITEM 7     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Crystal Corner Shops     Leke Ogungbe     Muhammed Danjuma     Kwara University Of Education     Tunde Yusuf     National Pilot     Na\'Allah     Shehu Salau     Iyiola Oyedepo     Ariyo     Kemi Adeosun     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Amasa     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Hauwa Nuru     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Tunde Akanbi     MalHub     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Ijakadi     Elekoyangan     Tope Daramola     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Lukman Adeloyin     Maigida Soludero Transit     KWASSIP     Amina El-Imam     Farouk Salim     Shuaibu Yaman     Isiaka Danmeromu     Kwara South     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Kwara State Pension Board     Abubakar Baba     Yunus Lawal     Umar Gunu     Ekweremadu     Oba Of Jebba     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Sanusi Abubakar     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Ramat Oganija     Doyin Awoyale     Shaaba Lafiagi     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Rachael Obisesan     Amusa Bello     Undergraduate Bursary     Yeketi     Tsado Manman     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Islamic Development Bank     Adedeji Onimago     Isiaka Oniwa     SUBEB     International Aviation College     TESCOM     KWACOBPA     Azeez Bello     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     BIR     Omoniyi Ayinla     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Peter Amogbonjaye     Olawuyi     Ajike People Support Centre     Elerinjare