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.

TESCOM 2025     Ayedun     Yahaya Muhammad     Shehu Adaramaja     Sulaiman Gado     Asa     Makama     Al-Hikmah Radio     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Olatinwo     Magaji Nda     Dagbalodo     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Kwara North     Abubakar Imam     Pategi     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ajia-Bako     Gbugbu     Madawaki     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Bello Abubakar     Unilorin FM     Iponrin     Bolaji Nagode     COVID     Edret Sabi Abel     Pakata Development Association     GRA     JUSUN     Muhammed Akanbi     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     3MTT     Folashade Omoniyi     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Aso-ofi     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Ita-Ore     LABTOP     Iyabo Adewuyi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     KW-GIS     Kwara State Television     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Lanre Aremu     Mohammed Haruna     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Saba Jibril     Oyelere Oyinloye     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Mohammed Yisa     Fatai Olodo     Bilikis Oladimeji     SSA Youth     Toyin Falola     Oloriegbe     Ladi Hassan     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     CT Ayeni     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Barakat Community Secondary School     Salman Alada     Yomi Ogunsola     Omoniyi     Olaitan Buraimoh     KWAFFA     Monsurat Omotosho     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Moshood Mustapha     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Garba Idris Ajia    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sodiya     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Akanbi-Oke     NITDA     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Peter Obi     Iyaloja-General     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     T And K FOODS     Donatus Ejidike     Yaru     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Saliu Mustapha     Ishaq Salman     Agbarigidoma     Christopher Odetunde     School Of Nursing     General Hospital, Offa     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Tafida     Sambo Murtala     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Nigeria Customs Service     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Abdulkareem Alabi     HICA     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     University Road     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Hassan Taiye Salam     Babs Iwarere     Oloje     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Ilorin Like-Minds     Femtech     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Abdulhakeem Amao     IsDB     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Adamu Atta     Igosun     Ben Duntoye     Moji Makanjuola     Kayode Zubair     New Naira Notes     Ahman Patigi     Aro Yahaya     Olatunji Bamgbola     Olayinka Are     Mashood Dauda     Gambari     Ayo Adeyemi     Tafida Of Ilorin     Post-utme     Bola Tinubu     Awwal Jawondo     V.O. Abioye     Odolaye Aremu     Gbenga Adebayo     Saliu Oluwole     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Kwara State Polytechnic     IF-K     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Ajikobi     Aso Ofi     Lawal Olohungbebe     Eleyele     Ilorin     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Galland Marcias     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Ishola Balogun Fulani