{"id":69417,"date":"2025-07-01T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69417"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:08:04","slug":"youth-group-gives-tinubu-72-hour-ultimatum-threatens-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/01\/youth-group-gives-tinubu-72-hour-ultimatum-threatens-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Group Gives Tinubu 72-Hour Ultimatum, Threatens Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has issued an ultimatum to President Bola Tinubu, listing eight demands that must be met within 72 hours or face a nationwide protest on August 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, NYCN Vice President (North East), Bishop Douglas Kanatapwa, said the demands reflect the urgency of youth hardship in Nigeria, not political motives.<\/p>\n<p>He cited high unemployment, rising food prices, and poor access to healthcare and education as pressing issues.<\/p>\n<p>Key demands include transparency in governance, affordable healthcare, education and vocational investment, food security measures, youth-focused economic programs, fuel and food subsidies, a national youth conference, and dialogue with the National Security Adviser on insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Kanatapwa warned that failure to act would trigger peaceful protests nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized youth exclusion from key national programs and appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The council reaffirmed its commitment to unity and development but insisted that the government must show equal commitment through concrete action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has issued an ultimatum to President Bola Tinubu, listing eight demands that must be met within 72 hours or face a nationwide protest on August 1, 2025. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, NYCN Vice President (North East), Bishop Douglas Kanatapwa, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69419,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69417\/revisions\/69419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}