Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
President Muhamamdu Buhari has said that most youths from the Northern part of the country were either uneducated or school dropouts.
He said because Nigerian media only do what they like, they refused to highlight the explanations in his recent statement in which he was widely quoted as describing a lot of Nigerian youths as lazy.
The President said this in an interview he had with Voice of America, Hausa service, in Washington, United States on Tuesday.
When asked about his reported comment on Nigerian youths while in London for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Buhari said the media only preferred to report what they like instead of concentrating on developmental journalism.
The President said, “You know they say we are over 180 to 200 million people in Nigeria and 60% are the youth below the age of 30.
“In the North for instance, most have…
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