{"id":222777,"date":"2026-02-04T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nyota-program-to-be-expanded-to-reach-2-million-youths-kindiki\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:28:56","slug":"kenya-nyota-program-to-be-expanded-to-reach-2-million-youths-kindiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nyota-program-to-be-expanded-to-reach-2-million-youths-kindiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nyota Program to Be Expanded to Reach 2 Million Youths &#8211; Kindiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 The NYOTA empowerment project is being fine-tuned and expanded to benefit over 2 million youth across the country, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The DP said the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) initiative has been successfully rolled out with 820, 000 youth targeted in its initial phase of implementation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;The government is looking at possibilities of injecting more resources into this program to ensure we expand it and reach more beneficiaries and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The NYOTA empowerment project is being fine-tuned and expanded to benefit over 2 million youth across the country, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said. The DP said the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) initiative has been successfully rolled out with 820, 000 youth targeted in its initial phase of implementation. &#8220;The government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,12010,4688,430,43933,5118,257,51845,5163,5160,254,8619],"class_list":["post-222777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-expanded","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kindiki","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nyota","tag-program","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youths"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}