Youth engagement and participation were the game changers in the 2015 Nigerian elections.
Nigeria is a country of many contradictions and paradoxes: we import food while over half of our land is arable and we import petroleum products while exporting close to half a million barrels of crude oil per day.

Agricultural land (% of land area) in Nigeria was last measured at 83.67 in 2011, according to the World Bank. Agricultural land refers to the share of land area that is arable, under permanent crops, and under permanent pastures.
In the build up to Nigeria’s most keenly contested election which, unfortunately, would also go down as one that had the most unethical campaign messages, one thing was clear; the then opposition’s mantra was Change.



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