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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan opens Facebook Account


"Democracy is gift from Nigerian youths," says Jonathan as he opens a Facebook account to interact with Nigerian youths. PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan gave kudos, yesterday, to Nigerian youths for their role in and contribution to national growth,and described the current democracy as a gift from them.  


“There is an unchallengeable power of good in the Nigerian youth”,he said in a keynote address, entitled Nigerian Youths: A Call to Possibilities” at the 26th Convocation of the University of Port Harcourt.

Jonathan promised to relate more often with the youths with a view to sharing ideas with them on socio-economic and political values best for Nigeria, saying that “as part of my contribution to this debate I will set up a Facebook account that will focus primarily on the exchange of ideas”.

Expressing joy at “the brilliance, innovation, patriotism, sacrifice and the passion for excellence that the youths of Nigeria have demonstrated time and again”, the president said: “with over 70 per cent of our population below the age 35 we are a strong and sturdy community determined to defend our collective interest”

“It is true that millions of our young people are waiting to take on the important project of protecting and defending our country. We must speedily put them to work. The urgent task in the now is to strengthen and consolidate our young democracy so that tomorrow’s generations are freed to focus on contributing to other compelling matters of human civilization”, he said. Vanguard News

1 comments:

Unknown said...

mr president kindly sack the comptroller of customs for his failure to detect the containers that contained deadly weapons.
His inabilitity to detect these containers is an indication of an unserious officer heading such a strategic agency like Customs.
it also show the level of decadence that has permitted the agency and the corruption level of the officials of the agency.

of the federal Republic of nigeria.
until have harboured this containers of armed or deadly things for this long . He canot say that he is not aware of the content of the containers . sacking him would show your seriousness.
tank you sir sola bello