SexyKaycee:


oh you silly child, only if you knew the joys of reading...
reading will make you forget all these sorrows
reading will open your mind's eye to the possibilities there are and ginger you to reach out for them
reading will give you an edge over others and make you indisputably employable over your peers
reading will arm you with the knowledge to edge out those leaders and establish a better society

oh how lovely reading is...

dearpreye:


It's about what they do online. The same Internet had made more of a reader.

fctguy:
OP you must be crazy
How will you read when you have not eaten
How will you read when you a squatter with no permanent place to rest your head
How will you read when your environment is hostile
How will you read when you are not sure of the number of years you will spend in school due to strikes
How will you read when the economy is hostile to your parents who find it hard to pay your school fees
How will you read when school fee is increased at will
How will you read when you are not sure of getting a job after doing the reading
How will you read when your country leaders do not give a fvck about your furure
OP, tell, how will you read

Dioxidane:


I'm sure if it was a thread about celebrities or any other ludicrous content of no present or future benefit(s) to them, you'll see them rushing to 'book space'... I shake my for youths of today...

Igwe Lalasticlala, please come and see this.

sukkot:
do you have unlimited data plan ? are you in nigeria ? how much is unlimited internet access ?

mentorandfriend:
Excuses are the sinking sands in the land of the living.
It is easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success

Freemanan:
TOO LONG...



CAN'T READ

Akbee:
Readers are leaders

fctguy:

Keep deceiving yourself
Whichever road you take success na success
These are not excuses but realities being faced by every young Nigerian which must be addressed
How many people in universities today study the course they loved if not for the sake of making money
In fact you can work in a place that has no bearing to your course and yet be successful
We read to pass cuz our country does not encourage and condone reading for pleasure

dearpreye:
I'm yet to see a public library in my LGA.

dearpreye:
I think the biggest blame falls to the government and the parents, though the youths themselves shoulder some blame.

My parents weren't particularly who I'll describe as readers. The stress of providing food and shelters and school fees for upward of 5 children wasn't an easy task. Good bless them for all their efforts. They never failed to provide our fees on time and so has already set me up to study.

For me, becoming born again( I pray I still am today ) at a very tender age also helped me. Deeper life taught me to read a lot and be focused.

The society has not given reading the right place. It doesn't respect teachers and scholars. It has esteemed wealth and obscene acquisition of wealth above thorough education. The youths are seeing all these societal ills. When last did you see a spelling competition being handsomely rewarded? What of Maltina Dance show? The youths know the values of the society lie. They are observing the system and are adapting to it. I'm yet to see a public library in my LGA.

Parents haven't done well too. They hardly pay adequate attention to the academics of their kids. They hardly read themselves, so where do you expect the kids to catch that habit? Unless they have good friends who read very well and often.

fctguy:
OP you must be crazy

Nairalandi:
If you want to hide anything from an african man put it down in a book!

Orikinla:
When I remember the popularity of reading novels, plays and collections of poems in the 1970s, 80s and 90s and how the appreciation of reading culture boosted the intellectual skills of Nigerian children, youths and elders in those decades, I wonder why the present generation of Nigerian children and youths don't appreciate literature.

Don't jump to the conclusions of blaming the emergence and popularity of social media and GSM phones, because they have not stopped the popularity of literature in America, Europe and Asia where novels are still selling millions of copies and authors are still competing for The New York Times Bestsellers List. But in Nigeria, the children and youths are intellectually clueless and the poor reading culture has gone from bad to worse. Even the students don't want to read their text books again. The terrible consequences of their intellectual underdevelopment are manifesting in the uncivilized behaviour of Nigerian children and youths.

The students at the universities and the secondary school pupils are not different in speaking and behaviour as can be seen from their writings. The essays of senior secondary school pupils read like essays we wrote in primary schools in the 1970s. You see graduates with very poor intellectual comprehension at job interviews. The tragedy of it all is they are not even aware of their predicament. The degeneration of reading culture in Nigeria is affecting the appreciation of life, because majority of Nigerians are now misbehaving like uneducated people.

They are going to schools in legions, but graduating without being educated. As we can see that even though Nigerians are the largest population of users of GSM phones and internet in Africa, even the best Nigerian universities are not among the top 10 in Africa. And when a Nigerian girl will text to thank me, she will type "fenks" and she is a student of Mass Communication at the university.

Rapmoney:
Sorry to say this but the present generation seems to be a wasted one! When you bring up an intelligent discussion among Nigerian youths, you will be hated! Most of our ladies can't discuss intelligently...they have been beclouded my material things!!!

Ojisik:
I totally agree with you, this needs to be adressed quickly, I remember when my mum will give me two days to finish an Enid Blyton book.

*Attention span is reducing, news is now 140 characters (Twitter)

*Conversations now get abbreviated (how many seconds can be saved by typing "fyn" instead of "fine" .

* Face to Face meetings are held on Skype.

* We measure self worth by number of likes on Instagram posts.

We need help. Your point is totally valid,I'm sure some people found your original post too long to read.

SAMBARRY:
You're very right. The society doesn't reward reading again. Look at the mullions of naira given to girls who walk naked on the run way or do miss campus then compare it with what they give a first class graduate. In fact they will say this one like book make we dash am laptop.

Those days as a young student in the university, our departmental association will contribute money to invite scholars into our university for public lecture. Those days we will invite wole soyinka, r.f ola, Francis enemuo etc for public lectures and workshops but today


you will see students contributing money to invite wizkid that will sing for 10minutes and will collect all the money you saved to watch his show. The money you could have used in buying a book


I told my kid brother who is one of the student union members in his university why him and his fellow sug members cannot invite reputable scholars and scientists for public symposiums and lectures . He said if they do that nobody will come and they won't regain their money so they need to invite musicians and all that.

Even in nysc camp too that should be an opportunity for people to upgrade and rub minds intellectually, they are busy talking about who is richer than who, who can sing better than who, who has the biggest breast and all

sparkwil:
Too many distractions. Students spend nearly half their day on d web while their books serve as sleeping pills

An2elect2:


The men are not better....most of them are dumb as f.uck.

dfrost:


@ Kingsasian

I concur with your points. I had the same upbringing. Back in those days, we literally "devoured" books like there was no tomorrow. Hardley Chase, Shakespeare, Mills and Boon (for the female folk though) to Where There Is No Doctor. Up till now I read a lot. My parents started off by encouraging us to read any sign we see on the road (ranging from signposts to notices).

It really bleeds my heart because you hardly find any young person to engage in a meaningful conversation.

On a larger part, modern parents are to blame. They practically have no time for their wards. They don't set boundaries for their children. All has been let loose. They should set a limit on what they watch, time they spend on the Internet and also apply a curfew.

How many parents have time to go through their ward's exercise books? 10%, 20%, 30%... 99.99%?

It's really disheartening to say the least. Go to the Politics Section of NL and you will see how custodians of our generation (elderly ones) exchange insults with one another and with custodians of the next generation (younger ones) without proper diction. The shortening of words has eaten into fabrics of our system to the extent that even some graduates looking for employment use them.

Social media only adds to the smaller percentage of the problem.

My humble submission. Shalom.

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