The Strength Of Any Successful Nation Lies In The Promise Of Its Youth

The hope of the Nigerian youth is dashed out while at the ages of 30 and 40, a youth still depends on his or her parents for livelihood.

But in developed countries, a youth at 18 and above stays on his or her own while at 35, a youth cannot rent a single room for shelter in Nigeria except few.

Today, we have youths looking for sugar mummies and daddies to marry in Nigeria.
This is a taboo! 2019 is fast approaching; the youths will be the first port of call to exhibit their political interests while their demands are not hearken to after any given elections.
Some of these Nigerian voracious politicians have devise a new crook ways of empowering the Nigerian youths by giving them cars, keke napep, motor cycle and other political liabilities.
Only God will judge our Nigerian greedy politicians.
Most youths at 30 above find it difficult to marry in Nigeria because the economy is not friendly coupled with the massive corruption among top political office holders in Nigeria, That is why you can see a young man at 25 in Nigeria marrying an older woman because of her riches and influences in the society.

Today both Pentecostal and orthodox churches will continue to have more youths in their congregation because 30 percent are job seekers looking for holy prayers to connect them to their destined jobs in life and nothing else.
If the likes of Obafemi Awolowo at 37, Akintola 36, Ahmadu Bello 36, Tafawa Balewa 34, Okotie Eboh 27, Enahoro 27 and Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe 42 struggle for Independence, then, what is the hope of the present growing Nigerian youths still depending on their parents for food at these ages? In 1966, kadunna Ezeogwu 29 led a coup plot, Muritala Muhammed 28, Theophilus Danjuma 28, Ibrahim Babangida 25, Garba 23, Gen Sani Abacha 23, Shehu Musa Yar' Adua 23, Yakubu Gowon 32, Odumegwu Ojukwu 33, Olusegun Obasanjo 29, Muhammed Buhari 24, MT Mbu, a then foreign affairs minister 23, and Patrick Utomi as a presidential adviser at 23.
Some of these people at their 70s and 80s still in power controlling the affairs of the country.
What is the hope of the 21st century youths in Nigeria?
It is time to take our destinies into our hands.
This is a country that confidence is no longer guaranteed among the Nigeria growing youths call leaders of tomorrow.

If you send a 10 years old boy or girl on errand, he or she demands for his or her cut.
Is it not sad? The political class must be blamed for their political corruption in Nigeria.
Every youth today in Nigeria wants to be rich at all cost because the society or family celebrates those with stupendous wealth without asking the source of wealth.
That is why few years ago, PhD holders, master's degree holders and first degree holders that fell in the age brackets of 30 and 35 applied for truck drivers at Dangote groups of companies.
What a shameless country called Nigeria? This is also a country everybody wants to travel outside the country for menial jobs irrespective of their intimidating certificates possessed in Nigeria universities.
Youth creativity is not encouraged in Nigeria than celebrating mediocre with unmerited awards.

The lack of inclusiveness of the youths in government actions has a major setback to an average Nigerian youth with tall dreams to fulfill.
As far we continue to blame the government, we must not fail to caution our parents that continue to produce children amidst of economic crises in the country.
Most parents in Nigeria failed to adopt the family planning policy of Rt.Gen Ibrahim Babangida which indicated that a parent must give birth to two or one depends on his or her income but the reverse is the case in Nigeria.
Nigerian parents must caution their sex drives towards producing overpopulated children with depressed future.

This is a country where a man married over 78 wives with over 200 children in Nigeria.
We must learn to curtain our marital vows to avoid youth restiveness in Nigeria.
Children are gifts from God but we must control our sexual urges in Life.
Marriage is a choice but it is left for us Nigerians to control our choices to avoid unemployment crises in Nigeria among our youths.

For a nation is as hopeless as its youth. A nation is as helpless as its youth. A nation is as creative as its youth. A nation is as clueless as it youth. A nation is as energetic as its youth. For the strength of any successful nation lies in the promise of its youth. Whatever a nation will be, look no farther than the youth. But when I look at Nigerian youth, sometime I become afraid for this Nation. Most of our youths are a mass production from the factory of ignorance, victims of a dysfunctional society. All they know how to do is wear designer labels from Gucci to Prada, from Versace to Armani.

PROF WOLE SOYINKA DESCRIBED HIS GENERATION AS A WASTED GENERATION.

 WILL YOU BE WASTED ALSO???

Fellow Nigeria youth, it’s time to force your way to relevance, it’s time to take responsibility, for the future will not be inherited- it will be earned. Stop blaming your circumstance because you can rise in spite of them…
stop blaming your ancestors because they bequeathed a legacy of ignorance to you-they don’t know any better.
Let’s not just think outside the box, but throw away the box. We have the numbers we can use that to enforce and effect a new change. As we ask questions, let’s go further by seeking answers.

NIGERIA SHALL BE GREAT AGAIN