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Peter Obi urges Nigeria to invest in children’s future

By Emmanuel Oluwadola

May 27, 2025
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Peter Obi urges Nigeria to invest in children’s future
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As Nigeria celebrates the 2025 Children’s Day, the Labour Party 2023 Presidential candidate, Peter Obi has urged the country to invent in the future of children.

Obi who disclosed this through his official X account on Tuesday, May 27 2025 stressed that children represent the brighter hope of a nation and that their well-being, education, safety, and future must be prioritized.

“A 2023 report from UNICEF estimates that over 110 million people under the age of 18 live in Nigeria. This represents a significant portion of the country’s population and demonstrates how young our nation is.

“Such high numbers of young people in Nigeria should challenge us, as leaders, to commit wholeheartedly to investing in the future of the children. Their future is the future of the nation,” he said.

Obi further highlighted infant mortality rates, hunger, malnutrition and out-of-school rates as major challenges the Nigerian children face. He called for a nation rebuild where no child is left out of care.

“We cannot also ignore the threats posed by violence, kidnapping, and abuse. Insecurity has forced thousands of children to flee their homes, live in fear, or grow up in regions where dreams are stifled by conflict. Thus, in their journey of life, an average Nigerian child has a long stretch of difficult road, filled with many existential challenges, ahead of them.

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“Yet, in the face of all these difficulties, many Nigerian children continue to show exceptional resilience, creativity and talent. Our duty as leaders, and indeed compatriots, is to encourage the children, inspire greatness in them and support their journey. Their dreams are valid and we must invest in their future, our future!”

“We must build a nation where no child is left behind and where the child of a nobody can become somebody through hard work and productivity,” Obi noted.

While congratulating all Nigerian children on this day, he called for a nation where children can dream freely, learn safely, and rise boldly.

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