{"id":495,"date":"2020-08-04T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=495"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:12:17","slug":"yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2020\/08\/04\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Yiaga Africa commends Minister on National Youth Investment Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Commendations&nbsp; have continued&nbsp; to trail the recent&nbsp; approval of the Youth Investment&nbsp; Fund&nbsp; by&nbsp; President Mohamnadu Buhari, even as the Minister of&nbsp; Youth and Sports&nbsp; Development Mr. Sunday Dare\u2019s initiative&nbsp; has attracted the support&nbsp; of the advocacy&nbsp; group Yiaga Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a congratulatory letter&nbsp;signed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Yiaga Africa&nbsp;Executive&nbsp;Director&nbsp;Samson&nbsp;Itodo, the group noted that the establishment of the Youth Investment Fund underscores&nbsp;the commitment of the Buhari\u2019s administration &nbsp; to building a new Nigeria. \u201d We write to congratulate&nbsp; you on the approval&nbsp; by the President&nbsp; Mohammadu Buhari&nbsp; led Federal&nbsp; Executive Council&nbsp; for the establishment of the Nigerian Youth&nbsp; Investment Fund&nbsp; to the tune of 75b for 3 years. This initiative&nbsp; is a reflection of&nbsp; the&nbsp; commitment of&nbsp; President&nbsp; Mohammadu Buhari&nbsp; to building a new Nigeria through&nbsp; a stable and people \u2013 focused government&nbsp; to move the agenda for our country&nbsp; forward, adding that this gesture is a vital move to next level of a prosperous, strong&nbsp; and stable Nigeria. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Itodo further affirmed&nbsp;that, \u201cas part of our commitment to Youth development and public&nbsp; accountability in Nigeria, Yiaga Africa&nbsp; will continue to support&nbsp; and partner&nbsp; with the Ministry&nbsp; of&nbsp; Youth and Sports Development&nbsp; in monitoring&nbsp; the impact&nbsp; and results of the&nbsp; Nigeria&nbsp; Youth Investment&nbsp; Fund on youths and youth development&nbsp; in Nigeria. To this end,&nbsp;we are available to provide independent&nbsp;oversight and monitoring&nbsp;of the Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yiaga Africa&nbsp;is&nbsp;a civic organisation promoting democracy, governance&nbsp;and&nbsp;development in&nbsp;Africa through&nbsp;advocacy, research, capacity building, youth and&nbsp;public accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hon.Minister Media office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/whatsapp-image-2020-08-03-at-12-57-00-pm\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-08-03-at-12.57.00-PM-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The president NYCN: Amb. Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo with his team presenting his appreciation speech to the Mr. President for the approval of the Nigerian Youth Investment Fund Approval<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/whatsapp-image-2020-08-03-at-12-56-50-pm\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-08-03-at-12.56.50-PM-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"445\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/whatsapp-image-2020-08-03-at-12-56-49-pm\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-08-03-at-12.56.49-PM-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"440\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/whatsapp-image-2020-08-03-at-12-55-26-pm\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-08-03-at-12.55.26-PM-300x214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"402\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Rep of Minister, Mr Sunday Dare, Perm. Sec, Mr Gabriel Aduda delivering the Minister\u2019s remarks at the reception of Thank You to Mr President by the National Youth Council of Nigeria led by its President, Amb. Sukubo Saraigbe Sukubo today at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/whatsapp-image-2020-08-03-at-12-55-25-pm\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-08-03-at-12.55.25-PM-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"369\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youthandsport.gov.ng\/yiaga-africa-commends-minister-on-national-youth-investment-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commendations&nbsp; have continued&nbsp; to trail the recent&nbsp; approval of the Youth Investment&nbsp; Fund&nbsp; by&nbsp; President Mohamnadu Buhari, even as the Minister of&nbsp; Youth and Sports&nbsp; Development Mr. Sunday Dare\u2019s initiative&nbsp; has attracted the support&nbsp; of the advocacy&nbsp; group Yiaga Africa.&nbsp; In a congratulatory letter&nbsp;signed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Yiaga Africa&nbsp;Executive&nbsp;Director&nbsp;Samson&nbsp;Itodo, the group noted that the establishment of the Youth Investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}