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In his Eid-el Kabir message to Nigerian Muslims and other citizens, President Buhari in a press statement signed by his senior Special Assistant, on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said that “if we are putting the teachings of our religions into practice, most of the evils afflicting our society would have been solved.”

Adeneye, who gave the charge when he received the Executive members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Ogun State Chapter during a visit to him in his Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta office on Thursday, said Nigerian youths must rededicate themselves towards the development of the country.

There is the usual temptation to reduce the meaning (albeit incorrectly) to: national integration, national development, political development, or national consciousness. The term includes all these but to reduce it to any of them is to commit the “reductionist’ fallacy