{"id":647004,"date":"2019-06-28T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div itemprop=\"description\">\n\t\t<p>The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has dissociated itself from any of the factions of the embattled National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by Mr Olusade Adesola, Pe"},"modified":"2019-06-28T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:07:26","slug":"ministry-dissociates-self-from-factions-in-nycns-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/ministry-dissociates-self-from-factions-in-nycns-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry dissociates self from factions in NYCN\u2019s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has dissociated itself from any of the factions of the embattled National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by Mr Olusade Adesola, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry in Abuja, the ministry did not invite any of the factions for any meeting.<\/p>\n<p><!-- between content ad --><\/p>\n<p>He however directed members of the group to maintain the present status until the federal cabinet was reconstituted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to inform the public that the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development herewith officially disassociates itself from any factional group of the National Youth Council of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c The public is hereby notified that in exercise of its responsibilities, the ministry has directed the maintenance of status quo ante on all activities of NYCN until the reconstitution of the Federal Executive Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Consequently, and as a necessary step to forestall any misgivings, the ministry hereby disclaims that it is connected with or responsible for any factional group of the council,\u2019\u2019 Adesola stated.<\/p>\n<p>He advised the public to be circumspect in dealing with any of the factions.<\/p>\n<p>The e NYCN Board of Trustees had disbanded the group\u2019s executive in May, due to crisis arising from parallel congresses that produced two factional executives.<\/p>\n<p>An elective congress was held in Gombe state in July 2018 where Comrade Shagari emerged as national president with his executive members.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Gombe Congress, a factional convention was also held in Port Harcourt with Comrade Sukubo Seraigbe Sukubo emerging as the national president, with his own executive members.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\tjs.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=1281965775160257\";\n\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>\n\t\/\/Facebook\n\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4&appId=513460408765074\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has dissociated itself from any of the factions of the embattled National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN). 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