"Most Northern Youths Are Uneducated Or School Dropouts" - President Buhari

"Most Northern Youths Are Uneducated Or School Dropouts" - President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday disclosed that most youths in the Northern part of our Nation, Nigeria are either uneducated or school dropouts.‎

In an interview which President Buhari granted the Voice of America he disclosed that he would want to clarify an earlier statement made about Nigerian youths being lazy at a Commonwealth forum in London.‎

See the Presidents statements in parts:
“You know Nigeria’s population is now between 180 and 190 million and 60 per cent of this population is youth that is 30 years down ward,” he said to VOA.

“You know in the north most youths are uneducated or school dropouts. If not because we had good harvests in the last two farming seasons, the situation would have deteriorated.

“These youths even if they travel out of the north for greener pasture they hardly make it economically, because what they earn as income cannot afford them to meet their basic needs or return home.

“All these explanations I made, they refused to highlight them in their report and you know the media in Nigeria in most cases only do what they like,” Buhari said.

It could be recalled that President Buhari had been under serious attack from Nigerian youths and the media following his comment at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Forum in London, that Nigerian youths wants everything free because we are oil producing Nation!



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