Worried over the spate of killings in the North Eastern part of the country, the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, today has flagged-off of a national youth peace concert in Abuja.
247ureports.com weekend major event gathered that the concert, according to its planning committee, is targeted at enlightening youths from all over the country on the benefits of shunning violence and ensuring peace in the country.
The Director General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri alongside Onyeka Onwenu from the National Centre for Women Development, NCWD, who spoke on the concert, scheduled for the Eagles Square in Abuja, said it is aimed at exposing Nigerian youths to motivational talks, lectures and songs that will make them shun violence and continue to preach peace across the country and beyond.
The concert, which is organised by the office of the First Lady and the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youths and Students Affairs, Jude Imagwe, has as theme, ‘Peace, Unity and love for national development’
