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.

Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Saidu Isa     Saheed Alakoso     Modupe Oluwole     Mohammed Abduraheem     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Damilola Yusuf     Kwara State Polytechnic     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Rafiu Olasile     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Oluronke Adeyemi     Maigidasanma     Adanla-Irese     Adegoke Bamidele     Turaki     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Abdullahi Atanda     New Naira Notes     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     John Dara     Temi Kolawole     Maimunat Oniyangi     Mustapha Olanipekun     Emir Of Shonga     Afeyin-Olukuta     Facebook     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     All Peoples Party     Oba Sulaiman Asude     REO CAKES     Ayinke Saka     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Abubakar Aliagan     COVID     Okedare     Segun Adeniyi     Facemasks     Durbar     Adedeji Onimago     Kwara NIPR     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Yusuf Aiyedun     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Okanlawon Taiwo     Ilota     Dele Belgore     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Mustapha Akanbi     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     AGM Professional Services     Prince Bola Ajibola     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Idris Amosa Saidu     Sunday Otokiti     Yusuf Abdulraheem     MATTA Girls Foundation     Roheemat Hammed     Mamman Saba Jibril     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Fatimat Saliu     Ajayi Okasanmi     Yakubu Danladi     Samuel Adaramola     Femtech     Mutawali     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Yemi Sanni     Moses Salami     Salman Suleiman     Agor     Aminat Ahmed     Unicontinental Construction Company    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Kumbi Titiloye     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Dankaka     Oke-Ogun     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Bluenile Associates     Rueben Parejo     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Temitope Ogunbanke     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Sebastine Obasi     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Justina Oha     Pategi     Henry Olaosebikan     Isapa     Eghe Igbinehi     Tosho Yaqub     Erubu Oba Zubair     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Olofa Of Offa     Muazam Nayaya     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     MalHub     Mumeen Lah     Ilorin South Constituency     Tafida     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Baruten     Fatai Olodo     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Idiagbon     Offa Grammer School     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Shettima Of Ilorin     Segun Abifarin     HYPPADEC     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Peter Amogbonjaye     Salman Suleiman     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Femi Oladiji     Bashiru Makama     Marufat Oladosu     Mukhtar Shagaya     Kayode Zubair     Arca Santa     Mohammed Haruna     Illyasu Abdullahi     Folorunsho Erubu     Adedeji Onimago     Olaiya Zuberu     Kayode Issa     Kwara State Sports Commission     Muhammadu Buhari     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Abubakar B.M     Moro     Issa Manzuma     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Village Alive Development Association     Woro     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     ANCOPPS     Curfew     Igbaja     Emir Of Kano     Ajike People Support Centre     Tunde Akanbi     Ghali Alaaya     Oba-Solagberu     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Habeeb Saidu