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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has cautioned that failing to provide education for poor children could lead to social unrest that may threaten the stability of society, including the wealthy.
“We can afford to send our wards to private schools, but the children of the poor that we leave behind will certainly chase us out of this land,” Tinubu said at a roundtable on northern Nigerian youth development in Abuja yesterday.
Tinubu was represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima. The event, organised by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, focused on the theme, ‘Empowering the Next Generation: Strategies for Sustainable Youth Development in Northern Nigeria’.
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