Restiveness

Also speaking, Miss Halima Inuwa, described the initiative as a great strategy for reducing youth restiveness in the state and Nigeria at large.

Bishop Onah traced the insecurity and restiveness in the region to the continuous detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and appealed to President Bola Tinubu to heed Mbah’s call for Kanu’s release.

North East Development Commission (NEDC) is set to build waste recycling plant in the region to engage the youths and discourage them from restiveness.

There was restiveness in our youths and apprehension in the minds of the entire NdiEnugu.

I humbly urge him to further deploy his Pan Nigeria skills to engage and end the restiveness in the South East through a political solution that involves dialogue, understanding and release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

ActionAid Nigeria, a Non Governmental Organization, has urged the Nasarawa State government to establish a Youth Development Commission, to drive the process of youth empowerment and address restiveness.

He said the demographic crisis is contributing to intensified conflicts over resources, to the nation’s growing insecurity, violence and youth restiveness.

When this act of restiveness has fully heated the polity to the point of explosion, even the pot-bellied politicians run abroad for safety, thereby turning the hunter to the hunted.

Youth restiveness from COVID-19, unemployment, a year of idleness made an army available for physical exertion,” Adebowale said.

Buratai, a lieutenant general, said Nigeria and the world at large was grappling with the harsh reality of restiveness mostly shrouded in religious, economic and political undertones.

He added that the development was also aimed at curbing youth restiveness and idleness in the community and making them useful to themselves and the society.

Mr Stephen Kilebi, Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations of the Ministry, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, indicated that the Minister, Mr Usani Usani, said the gesture would reduce youth restiveness and create jobs.

He said assenting the bill will also reduce youth restiveness across Nigeria.

He said the country’s economy was almost crippled by the restiveness in the Niger Delta, but this was calmed when the government started interfacing with stakeholders from the region.

He stressed that the road when completed would open up the Island to greater vistas of development in the area and create job opportunities that would help curb youth restiveness.

The managing director also called on the coastal communities to ensure security and less restiveness among the youths in order to attract investment in their area.