restiveness
Noun
Meaning
the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
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ActionAid Nigeria, a Non Governmental Organization, has urged the Nasarawa State government to establish a Youth Development Commission, to drive the process of youth empowerment and address restiveness.
According to Goldsmith the subsequent marginalisation of the coast region by post-independence governments favouring local elites and who are perceived as “outsiders” is one of the core reasons for the restiveness in Mombasa.
“In that regard, the PDP charges INEC to continue to monitor the situation and use the period to fine-tune its preparations to conduct peaceful, free, fair and credible elections as part of the much-needed panacea for the restiveness in the country.”
Before proffering panacea to this emerging dangerous scenarios of resurgence of the Niger Delta youth restiveness, let us vividly narrate what really happened which as reported may affect power supply across much of Nigeria.
“I will work to ensure that the youths are gainfully employed to reduce youth restiveness.
Youth restiveness from COVID-19, unemployment, a year of idleness made an army available for physical exertion,” Adebowale said.