The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday named Shamma AlMazrui, a 22-year-old Oxford graduate, as the minister of state for youth affairs. “After discussion with my brother Mohammed bin Zayed and the approval of the President, we hereby announce the new UAE cabinet,” Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said on Twitter.

“The new cabinet focuses on the future, youth, happiness, developing education, and combating climate change.” UAE appointed ministers for tolerance and happiness, adding that happiness is not just a wish, it is a process that must be planned and worked out. “We have appointed Lubna bint Khaled al Qasimi as minister of state for tolerance. We hope she will play both a local and regional role.

“Thani Al-Zeyoudi as minister of climate change and environment. At 32, with a PhD in renewable energy. Ohood Al Roumi as minister of state for happiness. She remains responsible as DG of the Prime Minister’s Office. Ohood Al Roumi, UAE minister of state for happiness “National happiness isn’t a wish. Plans, projects, programs, indices will inform the work of our ministries to achieve happiness”.

In Nigeria, the average age of the country’s ministers is 53, the youngest being 48-year-old minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun. Nigerians on Twitter are reiterating their discontent with the situation in Nigeria where at 51, the country’s minister for youth and sports, Solomon Dalung, is about 29 years older than his UAE counterpart.

https://www.thecable.ng/22-year-old-becomes-uaes-minister-for-youth

Despite that,it stl remain s
Islamabad.

Flirtyjane:
The United Arab Emirates has appointed a 22-year-old to a ministerial post overseeing youth affairs in a Cabinet shake-up designed to inject fresh thinking into the oil-rich country's government. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced his new Cabinet in a series of Twitter posts Wednesday evening. Oxford University master's degree holder Shamma al-Mazrui was named minister of state for youth affairs, one of seven women named to ministerial posts.

http://www.metropillar.com/2016/02/pretty-22-year-old-girl-appointed-as.html

Front page pls. We need to see inspiring stories like this.

hauwababy:


Front page pls. We need to see inspiring stories like this.

Tell seun, lalasticlala or mynd44

shikena

Our own youth ministers are closer to the grave than my grand ma.

Kk

Na where dem mumu NHA, HOS et'al. Make all of una fall out in line.. Agbayas!!

Wishful thinking in Nigeria

In Nigeria a 40yr old man is the youth president.

Cool

Our youth minister is older Dan my father how sad

Great....Unlike in a certain country that their minister is older that my great grand dad!so pathetic

She looks 25 tho but in Nigeria, If u re not up to 40. Forget that ministerial post

Youth Ko
That moment u think u r young

nice one. If only Nigeria can emulate...

Can she chop hard cucumber though

Sweet...... Its a good development

Here in Nigeria , Na baba 70 dey head that department.

They may be Arabs but their orientation is miles ahead of ours who claim to be pro-western. We're in a country where for the greed of what I don't know, a 70yr old politician would be claiming youth at heart, occupying the position meant for his grand children.
We'll surely get there but unfortunately not in the near future cos we have a President who considers the youths in his country as wayward and 'the most difficult' persons while he considers the youths in the diaspora as criminals and societal misfits.
God help Nigeria

Comon UAE,, Nigeria where are we?, wen people that rule us in 1970s still ruling us, there is no different between them an other African leader who want to die in power...

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You'll soon give yourself high BP cos of Islam

Ipod youth

Chai

Infidels appointing women , they have forgotten the great prophet teachings and insulted our holy book. Jihad is a must!!!

hmmm, in naija democracy is define by "government of the people and by the aged ones and for the people"

Our own sport and youth whatever, dalung...
Dey drag age with Pele

And here they would put my grandmother's age as youth minister..tell me how they are gonna represent the youths and know their needs...

Nice one

Impressive.

See future leaders not 80yrs old ppl we have here dat never wan leave for the young one to correct wat dey damage, only God knows wen dey started. Anyway make I no talk because is like if I say d truth den go ban me again, make I dey watch seun nd others in 15D here

Wow.Where are Nigerians Leaders of tomorrow?Come and chee chomchting ooooo.The leaders of tomorrow are becoming leaders of today in other countiri oooooo But 9ja own are leaders of tomorrow,after tomorrow another tomorrow choi