{"id":36477,"date":"2017-12-11T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/you-re-of-great-value-premier-ngirente-tells\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:17:40","slug":"you-re-of-great-value-premier-ngirente-tells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/you-re-of-great-value-premier-ngirente-tells\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re of great value, Premier Ngirente tells Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngirente was speaking Sunday at the closing ceremony of the 16th Forum of youth from Catholic Church in Rwanda at Umuganda Stadium in Rubavu District.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum attracted 5,000 youth from Catholic church and invitees from other churches in Rwanda and outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>The forum aimed at fostering humanity among youth.<\/p>\n<p>He said that youth  take  a big percentage  of Africa&#8217;s population  and  should play a big role in its  development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the Government of Rwanda and African countries in general, youth have great value, they are the hope of today and tomorrow, they occupy the big number of Africans and have the potential  to develop our continent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Rwanda, 65% of population are  below age 30, more  capable than others to quickly acquire  knowledge that would help us be a  &#8216;Knowledge-based economy &#8216;,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He called on them to avoid bad behaviours like drunkardness, divisionism, laziness, coward and adultery among others that could lead  to ruining  their future<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want you to be visionary and committed to contribute in all development activities. you should invest in learning and using ICT as a way to open doors for opportunities from inside and outside the country,&#8221; Ngirente urged youth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23131 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirente1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23132 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirente-8.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Ngirente speaks to youth\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23130 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/youth-4.jpg\" alt=\"The Forum attracted over 5,000 youth\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Dr. Eduard Ngirente has said that , youth have great role to play  in Rwanda and African development.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36477"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36477"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}