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.

Ajibike Katibi     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Offa Descendants Union     NSCIA     Folaranmi Aro     Kubra Kazum     Kunle Suleiman     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Ekweremadu     Onilu     Adijat Adebiyi     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Moro     Marufat Oladosu     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Anilelerin     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Alaiye     CACOVID     Samari     Yahaya Jibril Usman     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Florence Saraki     Boko Haram     Ganiyu Abolarin     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Obayomi Azeez     Isau     Ilorin Airport     Wahab Issa     KWTV     Yoruba     Jide Ashonibare     Ajayi Okasanmi     Saheed Alakoso     MINILS     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     LEAH Charity Foundation     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Goodluck Jonathan     Ahmed Dankaya     IYA ALFA NLA     Mohammed Abdulahi     Mufutau Olatinwo     Bilikisu Gambari     Oke-Odo     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Ayinde Oyepitan     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Musa Yeketi     Moses Salami     IDPU     Forgo Battery     IsDB     Sulyman Buhari     Minimum Wage     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Benin Republic     Seed Technologies     Aliyu Muhammed     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Joseph Daudu     Lanwa     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Atiku Abubakar     Undergraduate Bursary     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Kwabes     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Wahab Abayawo     Idiagbon     Ita-Ore    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Irepodun     Salman Alada     NITDA     Assayomo     Bayer AG     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Alabere     Ajayi Okasanmi     Gwanara     Rapheal Ashaolu     Kwara United     Adaramaja     Kayode Zubair     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Durosinlohun Atiku     Kayode Ishola     Okasanmi Ajayi     Olayinka Are     Donatus Ejidike     Gbugbu     Ilorin General Hospital     Durbar     SSA Youth     Wahab Agbaje     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Olokoba     Omupo     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Idiagbon     Bolaji Gambari     Kola Bukoye     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     International Aviation College     General Hospital, Ilorin     Ilorin Innovation Hub     AbdulHamid Adi     Yakubu Danladi     Ethical College     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Danhawa     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Sarakite     Jaiz Bank     Public Holiday     Lukman Adeloyin     Ita-Ore     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Hassan Taiye Salam     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Bisi Oyeleke     Ajakaye     Www.Kwarareports.com     Muhammad Yahya     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Shero     Orisa Bridge     2017 Budget     JUSUN     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Yakubu Gobir     Jimoh Akani     Ajike People Support Centre     Alapado     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Sheikh Ariyibi     Ishola Moses Abiodun     PAACO-PCL Consortium     KwaraLearn     Dairo Kunle Paul