DOES THE HOOD MAKE THE MONK? [THE NIGERIAN YOUTH: 1960-2018].


When Microsoft inventor and Philanthropist Bill Gates, came visiting Nigeria in March 2018, at the invitation of Africa's richest man and business mogul, Aliko Dangote, he emphasised the urgent need for the nation to critically re-engineer its Human Capital Architecture in order to achieve economic viability by the year 2020 and also completely eradicate Poverty before the set time for the actualization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

The two personalities from Europe and Africa, just like FACEBOOK inventor Mark Zuckerberg, an outstanding global achiever and NAIRALAND founder, Nigeria's 'Seun Osewa, whose site records more than One Million views daily among the top 1,000 sites in the world, should serve as role models for the serious-minded and patriotic Nigerian Youths, because they did not allow initial educational challenges to stop their ambitions to get to the top! While Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to pursue their interest while 'Seun Osewa, dropped out of University of Ife, from an Electrical Engineering Course in 1998, at a tender age to make success of Nairaland!

There are TWO - albeit - THREE groups of Nigerian Youths:
(1). Patriotic and determined youths, who believe in acquiring good education in order to give back to the society;
(2). Those who have flair for vocational/professional engagements theatre arts, acting, drumming, fashion designing, tourism, welding, motor/tri-cycle repairs, drivers, builders, traders, including land cultivation/animal husbandry - which have now engaged prominent national attention;
(3). Youths with poor academic assimilation who believe in SHORT CUTS AND "FREEBIES", who were always available as evil tools/pawns in the hands of dubious Nigerian politicians or fake Religious leaders!
These last set are the rabble-rousers, who have lost hope of any form of positive achievements in any business endeavour - these, who are classified colloquially as; "LOW LIFES", are those that are bent on truncating the nascent democracy which the present APC Administration is building for the TALAKAWAS!
They have neither respect for God, the LAW, nor for lawful authorities, parents or elders, not even the Executive President and Commander-in-Chief, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

NIGERIAN YOUTHS PASSIONATELY HATE THE TRUTH!
Since Wednesday, 18th April, 2018, several Nigerian Youths (between 18-60 years), had thrown caution to the wind to vet tirades of anger and venom against the FATHER OF THE NATION, President Muhammadu Buhari, through several derogatory, abusive, insulting and libellous comments, statements/articles on the internet social media and all tabloids across the globe, in a manner as had never been witnessed before, because he said, "MOST NIGERIAN YOUTHS WANT EVERYTHING FREE WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING."

Reports have it that the President, in a keynote address on "Making Business Easier Between Commonwealth Countries" also said, during the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster, London, that those youths preferred to do nothing because they felt that Nigeria was an oil-rich nation, adding, " We have a very young population, our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. This is a very conservative one. More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria is an oil-producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, and education free."

Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Mr. 'Femi Adesina, who was present at the forum said the President never described ALL Nigerian Youths as lazy. According to him, the President said, "A LOT OF NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY AND NOT ALL YOUTHS", during a discussion/question/answer session at the said forum. The presidential aide attributed the imbroglio to manipulators and twisters whose stock in trade was to lie in wait to make mischief. He said that elementary English recognizes a wide gulf between "a lot of" and the word "all", and he queried, how can "a lot of them" suddenly transmogrify to mean "all of them?" Mischievous and unconscionable! He also said that the focal areas of the administration; securing the country, reviving the economy and fighting corruption were actually intended to give youths a future and a hope!

But in a swift reaction, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, convener of the "Bring Back Our Girls" #BBOG, described 'Femi Adesina's defence as sheer "semantic obscurantism", as her father would have described it, adding that it "would have made sense to sincerely apologize on this legendary misspeak of our President.@MBuhari than to rush out with these acrobatics of "A Lot of is Not Equal to All".”When shall his media team learn? Been almost four years. I mean, FOUR YEARS. Haba", she concluded!

IS PRESIDENT BUHARI'S ADMINISTRATION, "ALMOST FOUR YEARS" OR "FOUR YEARS Haba"? HOW WILL OBY'S FATHER DESCRIBE THIS MISSPEAK OF HER DAUGHTER? PERHAPS, "SEMANTIC CONFUSIONISM"?

OUR EDITORIAL COMMENT: This will be the umpteenth time that we will be writing on our ebullient and boisterous Nigerian Youths! In some past editions i.e., Vol. 3... No. 80, of 22nd February, 2015, "AGONY OF THE NIGERIAN YOUTH [1999-2015]; Vol. 4. NO. 118, 15th November, 2015, "MUST NIGERIAN YOUTHS BE DRAGGED INTO THE TRAUMA OF VICIOUS DECEITS AGAIN AND AGAIN BY PDP"? And VOL. 7. NO. 237, 25th February, 2018, NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE NOW BACKED BY LAW TO CHOP "GOVERNMENT MONEY", we had graphically charted the cultural, traditional and spiritual traits/mien of the NIGERIAN YOUTH vis-a-vis his/her relationship to their immediate environment and perception of world-view as offsprings of a THIRD WORLD DEVELOPING AFRICAN NATION and have come to the unsavoury conclusion that the slow pace of education/civilization was responsible for the serious set-backs which they now grapple with in a fast-growing global village of high-speed Information/Space Rocket Technology!

IN THE BEGINNING OF PRO-CREATION: When the GOD OF CREATION, assessed the failure of the full-grown ADAM (Genesis. 2:7; compare 3:6), He sent him and his wife out of the Garden of Eden to begin the process of pro-creation, according to His blessings upon mankind in Gen.1:26-30, having equipped him with the art of sense of duty and hard work. (Gen. 2:15-17). Children are God's heritage and they are to fill and replenish the Earth. The New Testament talks about the call to duty and how LAZY PEOPLE WHO REFUSED TO WORK, SHOULD NOT EAT! (2 Thessalonians. 3:10-11).

The first offspring’s - Cain and Abel - were into Agriculture and Animal Husbandry while their descendants diversified into, Hunting, Brazier (worker in brass), Brick maker, Builder, Foundry, Aquaculture etc, as the world progressed into the Dispensation of Human Government.
God did not give room for any form of laziness! The TRUTH must be told that there is plenty of room at the TOP but every aspirant must passionately desire to pursue his/her course diligently with dedication, consistency, persistency, devotion and resilience before SUCCESS could be guaranteed! Must we lose sight that all Nigerian leaders (past or present), started off as YOUTHS before they acquired those positions in life! More importantly, Nigerian Youths should understand that there is no short-cut to success except through dint of hard work! DOES ANY NIGERIAN LAW STOP ANY NIGERIAN YOUTH FROM CULTIVATING THE LAND LIKE ADAM? SHOULD THEY OPT FOR THE PRESIDENCY AND OTHER TOP POLITICAL JOBS WITH THEIR MILK TEETH BECAUSE THERE IS MUCH ILLEGAL LOOTING OF THE TREASURY AMONG UNPATRIOTIC POLITICIANS?

APC WILL NOT STOP DETERMINED NIGERIAN YOUTHS FROM SUCCESS! Outside of the concerted efforts by the APC Governments at Federal and State levels in almost THREE YEARS, to fight insurgency, ensure security and eradicate endemic institutional corruption, utmost priority was placed on improving on YOUTH EDUCATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT.
More than 50% of the children of school age who were roaming the streets have been absorbed into the educational mainstream, over one million of the university graduates, have been gainfully employed through the N-POWER PROGRAMME, (at the Federal level alone), while millions of able-bodied youths are working at all the resuscitated textile factories, manufacturing industries, Ajaokuta Steel Industry, several construction firms, the oil and gas sector - where SHELL will soon upgrade the stakes through an investment of USD $ 15 billion dollars - that would create more employment opportunities that would gradually eradicate poverty from the polity!


PRESIDENT BUHARI’S COMMENT IS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR LAZY YOUTHS ACROSS THE NIGERIAN NATION!
"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to ALL people." (Proverbs.14:34). Lazy able-bodied/employable youths believe in SHORT CUTS to the top or to making illegal money, having wasted good opportunities to acquire education or vocations while growing up. Check the following list below and come to your own conclusions!
WHO ARE THE UNPATRIOTIC CITIZENS INVOLVED IN: CYBER CRIME, POLITICAL THUGGERY, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, INSURGENCY, TERRORISM, PASTORAL/FARMERS CLASHES, HERDSMEN KILLER GROUPS, MILITANCY/BRIGANDAGE, ORGANISED MILITIA GROUPS, NIGER-DELTA MILITANTS, O'DUA MILITANT GROUPS, ISLAMIC BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS, DISORDERLY SHI'ITE MUSLIMS RELIGIOUS FANATICS, DANGEROUS DRUG PEDDLERS/USERS, SMALL ARMS/AMMUNITION PROLIFERATORS AND USERS, SMUGGLERS OF CONTRABAND GOODS, MONEY LAUNDERERS, BANK FRAUDS/CURRENCY COUTERFEITERS CERTIFICATE FORGERS/EXAM MALPRACTICES EXPERTS; ETC. THEY ARE THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS OF 1960-2018 OFCOURSE!!!
"Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." ( Proverbs.29:18).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

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