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htajz: you can make your point without quoting fake statistics.

htajz: i cant believe you are still defending them even after you saw an article for national beureau of statistics saying its false , oga Gbawe na so u and ACN wan take change nigeria with lies even when caught.

World Bank endorses Osun youth empowerment model
on OCTOBER 2, 2011 · in NEWS
12:02 am
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By FOLUSHO AJIBUTU

Osun State government efforts on youths empowerment have received a boost, as the state is to benefit from the N50 billion World Bank/ Federal Government youth empowerment fund.

This was disclosed by the Sector Leader of the World Bank on Human Development and Task Leader on Youths Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO), Professor Foluso Okunmadewa, after assessing the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) corps in Olorunda, Osogbo and Ayedaade local government council areas of the state.

Okumadewa disclosed that the state government has achieved a milestone in the area of engaging youths into community development and the World Bank is looking into areas to help the government expand the scope of OYES.

According to him, this is the third time his team would visit Osun to assess the scheme and discovered that the government is showing other states in the country how to get their youths gainfully engaged.

“From our past interaction with the officials of the scheme, we discovered that the scheme is getting beneficiaries involved in community responsibility and this time we are seeking the response of the corps members to understand it more and help the state build upon the success it has achieved”, the World Bank Sector Leader added.

He pointed out that the World Bank would partner with the state government on the youth empowerment model and called on other states to emulate the scheme to make their teeming unemployed youths useful.

The six-man team interacted with the corps members on their areas of specialisation and where the scheme needs improvement.

[size=14pt]In his assessment, Yasser El-Gammal observed that the scheme has the potential to be the best in Africa.

“The World Bank is here to assess what the state government is doing and complement its efforts by helping to expand the project. We are impressed with what we see and believe it is a laudable programme on the part of government”, he added.[/size]

The leader of the state government team, Commissioner for Youth, Sport and Special Needs, Mr Stephen Kolabalogun, stated that the state administration has not relented in its effort to give the youths the best welfare programme, saying government is aware of the tremendous challenges ahead and would tackle them appropriately.

He maintained that Governor Rauf Aregbesola is passionate about youths, adding that youths would be the beneficiaries of the transformational policies of the government.

“Now, through OYES, the state economy is reaping about N200 million monthly and the moment about 5,000 of the corps members are absorbed into the state teaching service, 5,000 others would be enrolled into the scheme, meaning more hands would be engaged soon”, added the commissioner.

The chairman of OYES Implementation Group, Femi Ifaturoti, revealed that the scheme is not only about engaging youths but also a platform for human capacity building for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.

htajz: but why must u lie ? anyway lets not blame you , those osun defenders should be ashamed of themselves for quoting a fake statistics just to score cheap point for their governors. you of all people that have been campaigning for good governance in nigeria should also condemm this cheap charade by osun defender.

Replicate OYES Scheme – Osun ACN Advises FG
By theadmin, April 27, 2013



By Timothy Agbor/OSOGBO

The Action Congress of Nigeria in Osun state has advised the Federal Government to adopt the state model of Youth employment scheme (OYES) if it is serious about addressing the unemployment situation in Nigeria that is at the core of the disastrous insecurity now virtually bringing the country to its knees.

Reacting to the worsening security situation and newspaper report that there are about 40 million unemployed Nigerians at the end of 2012, the party in a statement issued from the party’s Directorate of Publicity, Research and Strategy in Osogbo stated that: “If the government provides for at least 50,000 youths in each state of the federation to be removed from the streets each year, the army of the unemployed will be reduced yearly by 1.8 million”.

According to the statement signed by the party’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Bar. Kunle Oyatomi, “this massive population of the unemployed is a fertile ground for the production of armed robbers, insurgents and kidnappers who are now terrorizing our cities and towns”.

The ACN believes that if the Federal Government made a close study of the Osun model of OYES, and adopts it to address the unemployment issue, insecurity will be reduced and a lot of idle youths and unemployed graduates will be taken off the streets and prevented from joining criminal gangs to terrorize our communities.

The statement further proposed to the Federal Government that only a multiple track approach to the crisis can reduce and eventually stop this parlous state of insecurity. Apart from military option, a creative way of pulling youth away from crime and terror must be found, and one of the most pragmatic approaches yet on this issue is the Osun OYES Scheme.

The party claimed that the impact of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme in reducing unemployment and preventing crime in the state has been tremendous and felt across the state. “It could have similar effect on a national scale if adopted by the federal government,” the statement said.

The scheme was designed not only to keep the youths busy doing something to earn a living, it also provides them with skills acquisition training at home and abroad to prepared most of them for self employment. In addition, the government of Osun organizes financial assistance to help them start a business of their own.

“If one of the poorest states of the federation can do this and pluck out 40,000 youths from the unemployment population in two years, then the Federal Government should be able to double that figure in the 36 states of the federation,” the ACN argued.

The party criticized the SURE-P model of the Federal Government which, it claimed, has become not only ineffective, but also has been bastardized by the PDP and reduced to a conduit for party patronage. This is why the scheme has failed woefully to impact on the unemployment situation in the country.

The ACN however called on Mr. President to summon the courage and political will to adopt the Osun OYES model to reduce unemployment in the country. “The problem has become life threatening for the country and the common sensical thing to do is to address the problem pragmatically before it destroys the country”, the statement posited.

thelastPope: You are just spewing absolute bull. No sense in what you are typing whatsoever. Let me spell it out for you so your thick skull can rearrange itself:

1. Everybody has to rally round to support the government to fight a common terror enemy. There is nothing like speaking up so you can be vindicated later. That is the biggest nonsense I have heard since I was born. You are daft for saying that. If it fails, then you speak up. You dont look into some useless crystal ball and tell us the future. Who are you to tell the future? Can you even tell your tomorrow? Ode!

2. No one ever said force was the only option. GEJ clearly and loudly stated that all options where still available. The amnesty committee has not been disbanded the last time I checked. So what Lie Mohammed said was utterly foolish. He even made it worse by advocating minimal use of force. Minimal use of force? Against people who have killed scores of policemen and are kidnapping women and children. You are an idiota for supporting Lie Mohammed's insensitive, self serving and callous statement.

3. The ACN has absolutely nothing so say or offer at this time. Lie Mohammed has the IQ of a fly! If you think opposing and insulting GEJ all the way to 2015 will get your masters back to power, then you are very unintelligent. If you think Nigerians will not realise that you wish them evil so ACN/APC can look good, you are deluding yourself. Stop supporting evil and terrorism. Stop eulogizing the strength of the enemy, except they are actually your allies. You guys are looking more and more the sponsors of Boko Haram by the day!

Vindicated! Osun Emerges with Lowest Unemployment rate in Nigeria – National Bureau of Statistics


https://www.osundefender.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Osun-Vindicated.jpg


30 MONTHS OF GOVERNMENT UNUSUAL: Osun Vindicated, with lowest unemployment rate (3%) in Nigeria by National Bureau of Statistics.

Mopping up 40,000 youths off the streets in two years and productively engaging them, thereby pumping 200 Million Naira monthly into the local economy with its attendant multiplier effects in commerce and exchange of goods and services, triggered economic rejuvenation and coupled with massive infrastructural development dotting across the landscape of Omoluabi land on a scale unparalleled in the 21-year history of our darling State of Osun, cannot but propel us forward…
Asese bere ani ki le ti rio. Asi ma goke si to ri bi giga laye tawa. Osuo ju pe ta lantakun o ba ku lati bi de ido oma tun ta kun dado…
EVERY STEP, A PROMISE KEPT! IREEEEE KABITI, OSUN TI N’DARA! AJURAWALO TIJAKADI KO!!!!

skyfall: ACN has commented on a very sensitive topic considering the present mood of most Nigerians. But sadly, they'll most likely be vindicated in a few months, if we consider the trends we've all seen so far.

The BH war is not going to be won by might (alone). Govt needs to cut their supply of funds, weapons & logistics. By now I expect FG to have begged US for assistance with drone aircrafts to shoot these terrorists from up above. Our borders are EXTREMELY porous and I don't hear the govt saying/doing anything extraordinary about that. I expect troops to have been massively deployed to every border crossing. As we speak, BH is ferrying weapons and logistics across the border.

Most Nigerians are applauding the SoE because they're fed up with the BH issue and would welcome any action from the govt, but only critical thinkers can see beyond these emotions and realize that the SoE will most likely not solve the problem. Rather than ACN, it's Jonathan govt that I accuse of playing politics because they're the ones in power and responsible for our security. Rather than facing BH squarely, he's busy fighting Amaechi & other phantom enemies.

However, I wish the govt good luck. I believe we all want the same results at the end of the day as far as BH is concerned.

Sincere 9gerian: You have written plenty grammar with plenty NONSENSE as usual.

The reality on ground now is that there's war in some states of the north and our security forces deserves every support and prayers as they confront Boko haram in the raging battle. Majority of Nigerians are resolutely and firmly behind the govt and our security forces as they confront our collective enemy- Boko haram. Unfortunately, your masters in Lagos are trying to throw a spanner in the works for selfish political gains.

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Ah! @Gbawe..,how far na? I no envy your position at this very critical period. Lai Muhammed and Tinubu have pooed as usual. Pls tell them to stop playing politics with everything and to give some room for NATIONAL development. They can start making amends now by retracting their latest thoughtless press releases and apologizing for insulting the sensibilities of Nigerians

Eziachi: Too little, too late. A total medication after death. He has spent the last 3 years telling us week by week who among his political opponents were the sponsors without any evidence or arrest/prosecution , He once fixed a date the insurgency will end to June last year, while dinning in far away Brazil looking for investors in the land that is burning. Not paying a visit to the area to re-assure public for a good 2 years, saying that its too dangerous to go or sometimes with excuses like "the Maiduguri airport isn't functioning".

Telling us Boko Haram was all about him being southern born president, demonising those that could have helped him no matter their political differences, thereby milking the divide and rule by making himself a victim. Allowing the opposition governors to steal the PR campaign under his feet by visiting the area first, before him.

A year ago, Boko Haram were only attacking from the back of a motor bike riders, last week they were attacking, mounting machine guns on the back a motor truck. A statement of telling us they are much bold they are now.

The biggest mistake was Jonathan and his govt mixing up Boko Haram activities with the riot that followed his 2011 rigged presidential poll, instead of treating the two for what they are, he thereby wasted lots of time chasing shadows, then Boko Haram used this wasted period to improve, developed, recruit, expanded and emboldened and now the gene is out of the bottle, very difficult to put back.

The unchecked activities of JTF in this area is already a state of emergency. Most of the victims from both Boko Haram and the govt forces are the masses and you cannot fight their guys without the help of the ears and nose of the public for good and reliable information and intelligent. But their total lack of human right against the same masses, has made it more impossible that the public oprobably trust Boko Haram people than they trust security forces.

No amount of emergency or marshall law will solve this cancer. Terrorist groups like and love confrontation, because that is what they live for. They must be clapping their hand now with glee. Kill one, then two of his brothers will join to replace him. The one killed believed he is going to heaven to marry virgins and they kill also hoping for the same reward.
How can you bring a suicidal person to his senses with a threat of death?

If Jonathan has some balls, let him call a referendum into the Nigerian question, then everybody, from the unknown sponsors, beneficiaries, politicians from all divide will sit up and listen and do something. A state of emergency, where all the status quo remain the same, so what has changed from before?
Too little, too late. More than anything now, he really need some measure of good luck now.

Goddex: Stop pretending! Gbawe, you criticise because you hate. You criticise because the person you like, the person from your tribe, your party ACN/APC, is not in ASO rock. When Amosun and Ajumobi where in PDP you criticise PDP without exceptions. Now that they join ACN you celebrate them. For you anything PDP is
bad when in actual sense one can hardly tell the difference in performance (except Media propaganda)between Kwara and Ekiti, Cross River and Ogun, Rivers and Oyo, Kogi and Osun, Akwa Ibom and Lagos, Jigawa and Nasarawa etc

Goddex: Dream on Oga Gbawe. Dream on but you will be badly disappointed after 2015 elections. Twist Anenih's statement anyhow you like but you will cover your face in shame after the elections I assure you.

Mogidi: @Gbawe.
Couldn't agree with you more. The sponsor needs to be arrested ie Buhari and his SW muslim brother in arms Tinubu.

Pukkah: Although this seems like a good move, it's imperative to ask some questions:

1. Why were the Governors spared?

2. What is the government going to do differently apart from deployment of more troops, searches and lock downs? I don't think these are entirely new.

3. The government should be mindful of the fact that declaration of a state of emergency is not a fail-safe option without addressing the fundamental issues. For example, peace has continued to elude Plateau state since OBJ days in spite of the fact that he declared an emergency rule. This is because no government has addressed the fundamental issues between the Fulanis and the indigenes.

4. What's the take of the government on the emerging ruthless group in Nasarawa? It appears like the Ombatse cult should not be treated with kid gloves and allowed to become another Boko Haram or Mend.

5. I make bold to say that though this government action may appear to be the right thing but it would not bring about a lasting peace. If it stops Boko Haram today, another group would spring up tomorrow. Some of the groups may even move to or re-surface in other states.

Why? Because the fundamental issues have not been addressed.

6. I think one of the fundamental issues is the basis of Nigerians living together. From comments of citizens, Nigerians are tired of the Nigerian arrangement and yearn for a proper federal structure or a referendum or a Conference to discuss the basis or terms of living together in this diverse, multi-religious and multi-ethnic 'geographical space' put together by Lord Lugard.

7. Until a government is bold or purposeful enough to achieve this, whatever peace you see is 'forced', 'bought', or that of the graveyard.

9icest: Lolz. Baba Anis is more logical than d paid babies here. I'm certain he still remember when uncle Anenih boasted that pdp wud finish Oshio in Edo. Pdp was massacared. Give us free and fair election and the SW and the North will flush you totally out of power becos this 2 regions have been totally abandoned by Gej and pdp.

iwanchop: The most foolish and unreasonable comment I have ever read on Nairaland.So you mean Fashola married a his wife so she could be used for political reason?Was Fashola a politician when he married Bimbo years ago?Did he even know he would be governor of Lagos?

onpoint2: never telling theirselves the truth for once. You and your fellow tribal bigots like eko ile, eko atlantic, desola, illugun boy, dayokanu et al are always know to tick off the tribal e-wars that has ever happened on nairaland here... Trace back how all the tribal e-war of just the homepage threads we have today started and also follow subsequent ones. If you can tell yourself the truth, you will apparently notice that most yorubas are the ones with tribalism and xenophobia in their DNA.

naptu2: If you want to know what's really going on in this thread, please, I beg you, click the link below and see how one of the posters here was caught out. Have a good laugh, then come back to this thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/925208/ethnicity-religion-future-lagos-state

koruji: And you think that is the behavior of a leader that is not sitting tight.
The attitude you expect from a true Mr. Transformation in the face of this kind of challenges is to say:
1) Everyone is free to aspire to any democratic office in the land - as long as they meet constitutional requirements.
2) My efforts and performance will carry the day for me at the polls in 2015

We all know that GEJ is afraid of and almost incapable, like most Nigerian politicians, of the above utterances.

But, actually I digress....

My real thought about this Shema/Akpabio poster is that this one of GEJ's kites towards 2015 - this is his plan B being thrown into the mix. If GEJ can't get it in 2015, he wants this team. They are releasing this poster in Lagos to make it look like some "unknown" foot soldier is responsible.

shymexx: I was born a Christian, and was baptised twice(Anglican and RCCG)...

Parents and siblings are devoted Christians..

I'm not just really on the religion thing, but I tick "Christian" in everything...

coolheed: I see a lot of sentiments in the OP's question and these will not enable development of Lagos. He is calling to religious intolerance, favoritism, subjective politicking and nepotism. Why should everything have religious colorations? Why? I doubt if the OP will ever employ a non-Christian if he is in a capacity to employ. He may be one of the people who adds religion in their résumé just to create a religio-sympathy for consideration regardless of professional competence. This MUST stop if we crave for growth, development and positive transformation of our society.

Who cares about your religion? That is your personal baggage. What we should be concerned about is electing the man who can deliver. Pure and simple.

leonshom: I don't think becoming a Governor in Lagos state is being dictated by one's Religious affiliation,not only in Lagos but most Yoruba societies ! Both Muslims nd Christians are qualified to hold d post, so far u av d qualities it takes, any1 culd contest.

His choice was reportedly borne out of the desire to have someone who understands the workings of the state to succeed him.

The yoruba Christians in the South west Nigeria are still in their deep sleep , people should not disturb their sleep , very soon they will wake up when their day breaks by then it will be too late to revers what their ignorance has cost them and the rest of Nigerians will echo to them Good Morning

Meanwhile Good morning Niger Deltans and Middle belterns and Good afternoon Igbos of the South East. it is Mid day in igbo land you people who are in mid day should shine your eye well well for 2015

emmydeep: Yes f.o.ol, the fact? Ok. The Hausa fulanis ruled Nigeria for 38 solid years but there is absolutely nothing to show for it. Scarliwat, go get some brain.

teskyg: GEJ has only spend two years.Please,let's allow this man to focus.

emmydeep: I pity the cömmunity that you came from, are you myopic? Cant you see the plan of the fulanis to Islamis Nigeria under APC?

Symphony007: Foolish almajiri's, your lot has ruled nigeria more than any other region and what did you perform? Rather you produce the greatest thiefs and dictators like abacha,babamgida,etc...even in this democratic dispensation at least for all his faults obasanjo negociated a great debt relief for the nation accumulated by your cleptomanic fellow hausa's and today under jonathan nigeria is growning at 7.3%. What did yar adua do in office? This hausa's are a very hopeless bunch. Born to rule a monkey's A.S.S!!