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.

Asa LGEA School     Post Utme     Ijakadi     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Allocation     ER-KANG Mining     Boko Haram     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Mohammed Lawal     IHS Towers     Ojuekun Sarumi     National Party Of Nigeria     CUTI     Balogun Fulani     Balogun-Ojomu     Shehu Salau     Kayode Bankole     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     TIC     Clara Nwachukwu     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Ariyo     Bashirat Bola Bello     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     IESA     Local Government Pension Board     TESCOM 2025     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Hausa     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Pategi     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Ileloke     Offa Metropolitan Club     Sodiya     Dorcas Afeniforo     Ejidongari     Sadiq Buhari     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     National Democratic Congress     NAWOJ     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Budo-Egba     Baaziki Sulaiman     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     James Ayeni     Mahe Abdulkadir     Issa Baba     Kwara 2015     Halimah Perogi     Sardauna Of Ilorin     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Nigeria Computer Society     Doyin Agbamu     Halidu Danbaba     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Ilorin Airport     Mujtabah Bature     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Musa Abdullahi     Jalala     Yusuf Ali     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Idowu Aremu     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Abraham Ojo     KSIRS     Yusuf Abubakar     Amuda Bembe     Donatus Ejidike     Alagbado    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Abatemi Usman     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Samari     Haliru Dantoro     Moses Afolayan     Mohammed Saidu     Shonga Farm Project     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Folaranmi Aro     Issa Oloruntogun     Summit University     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Umar Gunu     Kaosarah Adeyi     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Abdulhakeem Amao     KSIRS     Harrison Osauwagboe     Saidu Isa     Tunde Kazeem     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Logun     Atunwa     James Ayeni     Iyeru Grammar School     Olaosebikan     Federal Allocation     Saheed Alakoso     Facemasks     Hijab     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Lafiagi     Afonja     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Iyaloja-General     Metro Park     Mary Arinde     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Saidu Yaro Musa     Olatunji Ibrahim     Ajakaye     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Mohammed Haruna     Gbenga Awoyale     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Elese Of Igbaja     Ilesha-Baruba     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Kwabes     Ile Arugbo     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Ahmad Ali     Khairat Gwadabe     National Information Technology Development Agency     Aliyu Muhammed     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Raimi Iyanda     UTME     Makama     Omotoso     Col. Taiwo     Fola Consultant     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Kayode Zubair     Kwara Restoration Project     Senate     Ramadan     Quranic Recitation Competition     MAI Akande     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Ayoade Akinnibosun