ABUJA — A bill seeking to create a youth entrepreneurship development trust fund to tackle unemployment has passed second reading at the house of representatives. The bill also seeks to earmark for the fund about five percent capital estimate from the federation account appropriated for the fiscal year. The legislation is sponsored by Farah Dagogo, a lawmaker from Rivers state. In his memorandum, Dagogo noted that the bill will provide financial support to youths with...

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria’s most strategic assets are the youths. According to him, young citizens are currently the country’s most potent ambassadors. He stated this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open a three-day national youth conference themed, ‘Youth Inclusiveness-Governance, Security and Employment’. Represented by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the president said the youths have been breaking new grounds, records and winning laurels in diverse fields of endeavour across the world. “We...

GOMBE — Salaries of 731 workers who absent themselves from work in the month of September have been withheld by the Gombe State Government, as the state commences biometric verification of workers. Muhammad Gambo Magaji, State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, disclosed this at the monthly news conference on implementation of the Biometric Attendance verification for the civil servants, on Tuesday in Gombe. He said that the exercise when completed would avail the state...