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Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President of Nigeria, has expressed concerns as regards how youths are trooping out of the country in their large numbers due to frustration and unemployment.
Obasanjo in an interview with News Central TV, claimed that Nigeria is loosing a lot of money by youths leaving the country.
He said: “I’m very happy, optimistic and concerned. I’m worried, particularly with the youth. I have said it before and i’ll say it again, we are all sitting on a keg of gunpowder if we ignore our youths.
“They are frustrated, they are hungry, they are unemployed, and they are angry.
“Now part of the lecture we had is the amount of money we are loosing by the Nigeria youths that ‘japa‘. I’m worried about that.”
