YOUTHVILLE ISSUE #186
Friday, June 8, 2018
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Profit is what happens when you do everything else right - Yvon Chouinard
Budding cloth designer, Jennifer: Learn Rivers, Abuja students lead a skill, secure your future today Jennifer Garba from Benue State has found love in fashion designing. The young entrepreneur currently pursuing a Masters degree in Mass communication at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi has a clothing line, ‘JAYPAB’. She shared her passion for self-employment in this interview. By Simon Echewofun Sunday @SimonEchewofun
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hat is the motivating factor your vocation? I have always loved fashion, right from secondary school. Back then in school, I was doing the work of what I would later discover is called a “stylist”. My friends always consulted me when they wanted to put together an outfit especially when they were unsure of what colours to match. I got SOS calls from friends who had gone shopping but were unsure of what to buy. I unapologetically love fashion and I decided to start my own clothing line, “JAYPAB” as I aspire to become a brand to be reckoned with shortly. What is your typical work day like while making clothing? I work almost every day. I love riding bicycles since I was little and adding it to my workout routine has made exercising less stressful and more fun. As a budding entrepreneur, how are you overcoming startup hiccups? There are so many challenges faced as a designer let alone combining it with being a student. Most times, I have to multi task as examinations clash with date of delivery of clients’ clothes sometimes. What projects are you currently
working on? I am working on some projects to expand my outreach. One of them is a YouTube channel where we are planning on starting the exhibition of our products. We are doing this in collaboration with ‘stylemepurple’, another growing outfit brand. You have started this business for over one year. How do you source fund? My start-up funding was purely from personal savings. I expand the funding as the business continues to grow. What are your plans for expansion outlines in few years? I see the brand growing to be one of the big brands in Nigeria and Africa. We are really working towards this and we are beginning to see the signs of good things to come. What are your words to other youth about selfemployment? I will say to them, follow your heart and live your dreams. If you have passion for anything, work towards it and
develop yourself. It’s only what you’re passionate about that you can overcome. The challenges that come with it; where there is passion, giving up is difficult, so believe in yourself! For those who are unemployed, they should try to acquire a skill. Government alone cannot solve all the unemployment problems in Nigeria with the increasing number of graduates every year, so acquire a skill and be your own boss and employ people instead, secure your future today!
Abuja Literary Society gears up for creative festival By Bamas Victoria @BamasVictoria The Abuja Literary Society (ALS), a community of creative minds and patrons of arts, is set to host its first literary festival tagged, “Nigeria to the World.” The Festival, named the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival, is set to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of ALS.
Art exhibitions, book panels and books swaps, poetry slam, presentation of unique Nigerian dishes, panel discussions, writing master classes are some of the activities for the three day event slated for July 5 to 7, 2018 at the Abuja Exhibition Pavilion. Some of the panellist expected include Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Layla Ali Othman, Odafe
Atogun, Edify Yakusak, Bash Amuneni, Dike Chukwumerije. The Society was founded by Victor Anoliefo, Ike Anya, Ferdinand Agu and Ken Ike Okere in 1998 as an initiative to bring together writers, aspiring writers, book-lovers, intellectuals, and generally anyone with an interest in the literary arts looking to relax in a
creative atmosphere. The society holds regular activities including open microphone sessions, book readings and literary workshops amongst others. Apart from the weekly meetings, ALS organizes periodic events that contribute to its overarching goal of building and sustaining a thriving literary space in Abuja.
Plateau youth warned against thuggery, peace disruption From Dickson S. Adama, Jos A youth activist and member representing Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Central Working Committee of the Plateau Youth Council, Dr Bapigaan William Audu, has called on youth to eschew violence and engaging in any activity that will disrupt the peace and tranquillity of the country. Speaking in Jos at a
commemoration of the return of Plateau Youth Council, Dr Audu advised youth against offering themselves to be used as thugs or agent of destruction by desperate politicians that would dump them thereafter. He said, “The youth must see themselves as tools of unity and development; they should be interested in a better tomorrow and be ready to plan for it. We must not
allow ourselves to be used by others to constitute threat to public peace or in the subversion of the electoral preferences of our people. It is time to turn a new leaf and begin to act deliberately and conscientiously.” “He thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for granting Nigeria youth the best democracy day present with the Presidential assent to the Not Too Young To Run bill.
Cowbellpedia with perfect scores From Nurudeen Oyewole, Lagos Three students, Favour Okarike and Benny Sampson from Graceland International School, Rivers State and Chiedozie Uzoschukwu of Nigerian Tulip International College, Abuja have emerged leading scorers in the 2018 Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz qualifying examination. In a statement from Promasidor Nigeria Limited, said the release of the results of the 2018 by the National Examinations Council (NECO) revealed that the three students with 100 per cent scores are in the Junior Secondary School category of the competition. About 40, 000 candidates participated in the examination with the junior category having 21,000 candidates. The remaining were senior secondary school students. At the end of the qualifying round, 108 students (54 each for junior and senior categories) will proceed to the second stage, which is the Television Quiz Show, it said. With 15 candidates in the second stage, Ogun State led the rest of the states in the country, while Rivers State followed with 10 candidates and Osun State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja had five candidates each. This year’s prize money has been doubled as the ultimate winner in each of the categories will be rewarded with N2 million with an allexpenses paid excursion outside the country, while the first and second runners-up will receive N1.5m and N1m. The teachers of the top prize winners will win N500,000 while those of the first and second runners-up will receive N400,000 and N300,000 respectively, the company said.
#Nottooyoungtorun: NANS asks youth to rescue Nigeria By Latifat Opoola @LatifatOpoola With the passage of the not too young to run bill into law,the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone A has called on Nigerian youth to combine forces, in order to rescue our Nigeria from the hands of old politicians. The coordinator, Umar Farouk Lawal stated this in a statement issued to news men in Abuja. He said the aged politicians had over the years plunged the country into crises, ranging from economy, religion, ethnic and political instability just to achieve their personal gain. He also noted that the not too young to run agenda can only be effective, when youth support themselves with revolutionary ideology vying for various political offices. “The not too young to run agenda, can only be achievable if we shun money politics and support credible, tested and competent youth” he advised.