{"id":18104,"date":"2022-03-12T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today"},"modified":"2022-03-12T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:15:32","slug":"kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today","title":{"rendered":"Kasanda urges youths to turn up in numbers today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Information and Media, Chushi Kasanda says march pasts to commemorate this year\u2019s youth day which falls today March,12, 2022 will take place in provinces and districts across the country. Ms Kasanda says this is contrary to social media platforms alleging that there will be no march pasts to commemorate tomorrow\u2019s youth day.<\/p>\n<p>Encouraging youths to ignore the contrary social media reports but turn up in number to commemorate their day tomorrow, the minister indicated that this year\u2019s youth day celebration is special as it is the first one under the UPND government since coming into office over six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis day marks an important beginning for the Youths under the UPND government, which has demonstrated great passion and commitment to the welfare of the Youths in the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s youth day commemoration is being held against the backdrop of significant strides that government has made to improve the welfare of the Youths in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The strides include various youth empowerment schemes and programmes which government is rolling-out country wide. \u201cThere is therefore every reason for youths to commemorate their day as they forge on renewed future and government as they participate in national development,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also indicated that government reaffirms its commitment to the development of youths into skilled and responsible citizens that can contribute meaningfully to the development of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Minister of Information and Media, Chushi Kasanda says march pasts to commemorate this year\u2019s youth day which falls today March,12, 2022 will take place in provinces and districts across the country. Ms Kasanda says this is contrary to social media platforms alleging that there will be no march pasts to commemorate tomorrow\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-18104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kasanda urges youths to turn up in numbers today - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of Information and Media, Chushi Kasanda says march pasts to commemorate this year\u2019s youth day which falls toda ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kasanda urges youths to turn up in numbers today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of Information and Media, Chushi Kasanda says march pasts to commemorate this year\u2019s youth day which falls toda ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-12T18:50:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-12T19:15:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-622cf13ab8dd0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"526\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kasanda urges youths to turn up in numbers today\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-12T18:50:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-12T19:15:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today\"},\"wordCount\":255,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-622cf13ab8dd0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/kasanda-urges-youths-to-turn-up-in-numbers-today\",\"name\":\"Kasanda urges youths to turn up in numbers today - 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