NIGERIAN YOUTHS: CONFUSED, STUPID OR SHAMELESS?

The Merriam-Webster dictionary simply defined youth as a time of life when someone is young or the time when a young person has not yet become adult. What then do we call we call youths of Nigeria who daily cry about lack of representation in government circles when the Minister of Youth in the country is a 51 year old and average age for commissioners in charge of youth in different states is around 50. How then do we get properly represented? How do we get a voice speaking and fighting for us? How did we young ones get so alarmingly silent over this misrepresentation? Are we just confused, stupid or shameless?

What do we call Nigerian youths who waste no time in stoning and burning petty thieves, parading them naked and applying our favorite brand of justice from the jungle while we hail and fight for the politicians robbing and raping us day in day out. We go out of way to venerate and exalt our politicians instead of stripping them naked on our death traps called roads. No wonder a politician once told us to our faces that they (politicians) steal because we don’t stone them. What do you call youths who throw awards and dinner parties to politicians who owe their parents several months’ salaries? Shameless, clueless or stupid?

Are we really confused, stupid or shameless when we think the President alone can solve all our problems when the councilors, local government chairmen, state house assembly men, governor, federal representative and senators that we spent countless hours in the sun or rain all go out stealing from us, leaving us and our meagre treasury empty and dry while we fold our arms and do nothing. The sad realization is that most youths do not even know who their councilors or local government chairman is neither do they know the person representing them in any legislative chambers (state or federal). How long shall we complain of bad policies and unfair representations

What do we call Nigerian youths who lead and line up the roads at every campaign trails of politicians? They fight, maim, destroy and even kill or get killed on these so called campaign rallies but alas the politicians’ children are comfortably tucked in a good environment where everything work and are secured somewhere in the UK or the US only to for them to show up on inauguration day while you are barred from attending the inauguration. What do we call you when you give your youth, sweat, and blood for politicians whose children are not leading their parents’ campaign.

What do we call the youth who graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and cannot change a light bulb or the computer science graduate who cannot operate a computer? What shall we say of the English Language graduates whose grammatical bombs can destroy the whole of Sambisa forest? How do we describe graduates who cannot communicate in English and what shall we say of our youths who boast of being educated all the time but has nothing to show for years of schooling in terms of reasoning, attitude, problem solving etc. do we call them confused, stupid or shameless when they refuse to look inward and accept that most times they are simply unemployable instead of waking up daily to sing the usual chorus of there is no job.

What do we call the students who would rather spend countless hours boozing, clubbing, womanizing, prostituting, browsing irrelevancies on the internet at the expense of their academics only to fail in school as expected but would rather blame the school, lecturers, serious students, neighbors, governor, president and the whole country except himself /herself for the failure. Do we say confused, stupid or shameless?
What do we call Nigerian youths who organize protests and rallies for politicians facing various corruption charges? Do we call them shameless, stupid or confused? When are we going to start organizing rallies and protests that educational institutions in the country be fixed, when are we going to start sitting in front of government offices demanding for roads to fixed, security to be provided, schools to be built, jobs provided, salaries be paid and so on and so forth. Above all when are we go start recalling our legislators whose insensitivity daily grows.

Are we really stupid or confused when we follow our politicians lead on dividing us along tribal and religious lines? What do we call youths who see one another differently because we do not speak the same language or because we call God in different names? Have we ever stopped to think whether our politicians share/steal/loot money based on religion or tribe, is there a different sharing formula for Christians or Muslims in the senate? Why then do we think we are different?

How do we describe the young fellow who continuously break the law, drives without seat belt and mostly under the influence of alcohol, believes success does not come through hard work, who does not see cheating as wrong or stealing as corruption, what of the ones who see farming and other vocational activities as dirty and beneath them because of their mediocre bachelor’s degree? How do we describe the ones who lost morals and respect and expect everybody they meet to respect them because they are the leaders of tomorrow?

Fellow youths of Nigeria, it is time to stand up and be counted. It is time to start showing and proving that indeed we are not only leaders of tomorrow, we are masters of today. It is time to start thinking differently, objectively, rationally and outside the box. It is time us youths start asking questions about us from our leaders, asking and not leaving without answers. It is time to start thinking about what we as youths can contribute to nation building, if our leaders are really out of progressive and modern ideas as we think, it is time we the youths help them out by providing them with ideas that work after all a functioning country is for the good of both the old and young. It is time to believe in hard work and dignity of labor. It is time to stand up and ask questions of ourselves: as a youth, am I clueless, confused, stupid or shameless?

kingAngel

Lazy

With the way some of them even comment on social media on important issues, u kind of wonder where this country is heading to with the way some of them reason. I think they are just confused. May God help us all.

To me am proud of my course Environmental Studies & Resources Management[/b]and am glad and happy in my field [b]Tourism from a prestigious institution National Open University of Nigeria NOUN. Join us in diversifying our economy to tourism and agriculture to boost n promote our cultural heritage and sufficient food.
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All of the above

Aromas:
To me am proud of my course Environmental Studies & Resources Management[/b]and am glad and happy in my field [b]Tourism from a prestigious institution National Open University of Nigeria NOUN. Join us in diversifying our economy to tourism and agriculture to boost n promote our cultural heritage and sufficient food.
Proudly Nounites

how many articles have u written about environmental health?, how many health talks have you provided to the local citizens?, have you ever sat down as an individual to find solution to effects of global warming?.....make ur schl n coure attractive. Go out there, turn theories into practicals.

Op none of d above.


Nigerian youths ar religious and tribal bigots.
Tribalism can't lead you anywhere.


It is like a flat tyre, u can't get any were with it until u change it.

Agrico1:
how many articles have u written about environmental health?, how many health talks have you provided to the local citizens?, have you ever sat down as an individual to find solution to effects of global warming?.....make ur schl n coure attractive. Go out there, turn theories into practicals.

PM me and let me send to you one my article am through with. On d issue of global warming we all know what it takes to reduce it if government are ready for business.