Rinsola Abiola is a media entrepreneur and youth advocate who works at the intersection of politics and civil society to promote enhanced inclusion for women and young people in politics and governance. A native of Abeokuta in Ogun State, she is active both within civil society circles and as a member of the ruling All... Read More

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November 11, 2017

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#NotTooYoungToRun: “No venture, no gain” | Obasanjo urges youth to be more politically responsible

A former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has asked younger Nigerians to take up leadership positions in Nigeria. He made his position known when a group of political aspirants, Tunde Eso, Ahmed Buhari and Tosin Gold, visited his Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun to solicit support from him on their ambitions. Highlights: Obasanjo said Nigerians don’t remember that he... Read More

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Ahmed Buhari, olusegun obasanjo, Tosin Gold, Tunde Eso, Youth in politics

August 16, 2017

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Opinion: It’s too early to celebrate the successful Not Too Young To Run bill

By Funmilola Ajala The long drawn out process of tinkering Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution has brought to the fore, the allure to correct the innumerable inconsistencies embedded in the military-cooked script. As applicable to virtually every item on our national menu, the amendment of the defective Constitution, as being managed by the Legislature, has divided... Read More

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May 18, 2017

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Ayo Sogunro: Yes, Nigeria needs an ideological political sysytem, but how?

by Ayo Sogunro For some reason – one I suspect is connected with my recent articles on the Nigerian political system – I have had several young Nigerians, people in their 20s and 30s, send me messages proposing or requesting ideas on the reform of Nigeria’s political system. Some of these ideas include organising an... Read More

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May 6, 2017

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Dele Momodu: Do our youth really know what they want?

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, I’m very sorry if I’m starting my weekly epistle with what may seem a rhetorical question today. Columnists are ordinarily expected to throw up certain questions from time to time and proffer answers. Let me confess right away that I may not be able to do so in this piece.... Read More

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February 4, 2017

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Opinion: #NotTooYoungToRun | Stronger together

by Jude Feranmi As you read this, there are more than a hundred fora of young Nigerians trying to organize politically for social and political change. The clamour for inclusion in political decision making in matters that affect young Nigerians now and in the later future is not only reverberating amongst those who are tired... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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Opinion: #NotTooYoungToRun – Youth engagement in constitution review process

By Ibrahim Faruk Constitution review is a continuous process and has been on the front burner of national discourse since 1999. The 6th Assembly successfully passed three sets of alterations (amendments) to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the review process from 2007 – 2011. The 7th Assembly, however, was not as successful as... Read More

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November 23, 2012

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Hauwa Gambo: Now that it’s our turn to “participate” in politics (YNaija FrontPage)

Because change doesn’t happen because one set of people is replaced by the next. Change only happens because one set of philosophies is replaced by another. When democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999, a generation was just finding itself. Its evolution stunted because of the endless military occupations of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, it... Read More

More young people should join politics – Rinsola Abiola

#NotTooYoungToRun: “No venture, no gain” | Obasanjo urges youth to be more politically responsible

Opinion: It’s too early to celebrate the successful Not Too Young To Run bill

Ayo Sogunro: Yes, Nigeria needs an ideological political sysytem, but how?

Dele Momodu: Do our youth really know what they want?

Opinion: #NotTooYoungToRun | Stronger together

Opinion: #NotTooYoungToRun – Youth engagement in constitution review process

Hauwa Gambo: Now that it’s our turn to “participate” in politics (YNaija FrontPage)

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