Former president Obasanjo urges African leaders to find a lasting solution to youth unemployment in their regions Obasanjo calls for inclusiveness as he hosted ECOWAS presiden BREAKING NEWS!!! OBASANJO DROPS STRONG WARNING TO BUHARI – THE GAME IS GRADUALLY CHANGING (MUST READ) Zubby | July 5, 2016 | News | No Comments Former president Obasanjo urges African leaders to find a lasting solution to youth unemployment in their regions Obasanjo calls for inclusiveness as he hosted ECOWAS president He says ECOWAS was established 41 years ago, the sub-regional body were yet to be met Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria has urged the African nations to urgently address the lingering youth employment. According to Obasanjo, should the African countries not address the issue of unemployment, there might be an outburst of violence. Obasanjo made this known when he played host to the newly appointed president of ECOWAS Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza, who led a four-man delegation to his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. BREAKING NEWS!!! OBASANJO DROPS STRONG WARNING TO BUHARI – THE GAME IS GRADUALLY CHANGING (MUST READ) Zubby | July 5, 2016 | News | No Comments Former president Obasanjo urges African leaders to find a lasting solution to youth unemployment in their regions Obasanjo calls for inclusiveness as he hosted ECOWAS president He says ECOWAS was established 41 years ago, the sub-regional body were yet to be met Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria has urged the African nations to urgently address the lingering youth employment. According to Obasanjo, should the African countries not address the issue of unemployment, there might be an outburst of violence. Obasanjo made this known when he played host to the newly appointed president of ECOWAS Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza, who led a four-man delegation to his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. He said: “On the issue of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, I have maintained that all of us in West Africa, in our different countries and indeed in Africa, we are sitting on a keg of gun powder for as long as we do not pay adequate attention to youth unemployment. “A situation where more than 50% of our youths are unemployed is extremely dangerous. We now have a situation in part of West Africa where people now are dying of starvation. “Is it that we are not producing enough food or if we are producing what we produced evenly, whatever it is it is shameful, it has led us to be begging international community for supply of food to any part of West Africa, it is not right?” According to Obasanjo, who is currently a special envoy of ECOWAS to Guinea-Bissau, the expectations from the sub-regional body when it was established 41 years ago were yet to be met
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