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.

IPSAS     NIPOGA     Umaru Saro     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Ghali Muhammed     Jaiz Bank     Owo Arugbo     Saliu Ajia     Towoju     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Post-utme     Oyedepo     Lanre Badmus     Umar Adelodun     Afeyin-Olukuta     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Ahmad Uthman     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Abdullahi Atanda     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Henry Olaosebikan     Salihu S. Yaru     Gbugbu International Market     Talaka Parapo     Sunset Workers     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Moses Salami     Shao     Kunle Okeowo     Turaki     Sulaiman Gado     Fatimoh Lawal     General Hospital     Gbenga Adebayo     Dagbalodo     UNIFEMGA     Agboola Babatunde     Sherif Sagaya     Dogara     KWASAA     Aro Yahaya     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Okanlawon Musa     Olayinka Are     Shettima     Eghe Igbinehin     ASUU     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     UNILORIN Alumni     FERMA     Saduki Lafiagi     Okin High School     NSCIA     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Idiagbon     Gobir     Haleeman Salman     Oba Abu     Jawondo     Split Diamond Interchange     Alore     Kwara State Pension Board     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Doyin Agbamu     Yunus Oniboki     Suleiman Idris     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Bayo Onimago     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Olawuyi     Olugbense     Kwara Pdp     Elesie Of Esie     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Abdulwaheed Musa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Bolakale Kawu     Michael Nzwekwe     Marafan Shonga     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Baboko Primary School     Seed Technologies     Alimi Abdulrazaq     3MTT     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Esinrogunjo     Mamman Saba Jibril     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Temitope Ogunbanke     First Lady     Aliyu Alhassan     Kunle Suleiman     Age AbdulKareem     Mike Omotosho     Segun Adeniyi     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Ajayi Okasanmi     Bond     Ahman Pategi University     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Kayode Yusuf     SGBN     Yeketi     Ashiru     Babata     KFA     Sam Onile     Ridwan Agboola     Oke-opin     Sarakite     Edu     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Unilorin     March 18     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Otoge     Abdulwahab Ololele     Saliu Oluwole     Afonja     Saad Omo\'ya     Government House     Olayinka Are     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Shonga     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     ANCOPPS     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Abdulazeez Uthman     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Sulaiman Gado     Lanre Aremu     Abdullahi Samari     Kwara Restoration Project     Tinubu     Baakini     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Peter Amogbonjaye     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Akeem Olatunji     SWAN     Olatunji Ibrahim     Salihu Yahaya     Paul Olawoore     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Ilorin South     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Clara Nwachukwu     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Albert Ogunsola     Musa Alhassan Buge     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Aliyu Muyideen