Diary Of An Embattled Naija Youth.

It is no longer strange to hear people say that the Nigerian 'youth of now-a-
days' are lazy, dumb, lackadaisical, negligent, clueless and bla bla bla (too much
oyinbo sef).

The media has helped in every way possible to sing the song of
doom that has constantly been ascribed to the Nigerian youth. I don hear am
sotey I don almost deaf (I have been fed to stupor with it ), but I believe that
it is largely unfair for these 'talk talk' critics to sit down somewhere, cross leg
and say whatever they choose based on a few instances.

Make we even gree say we Lazy ( let us pretend to agree to the
fact that we are lazy), Oya, let us trace the roots and see where they lead.

They Say Graduates are Unemployable
I laugh in Greek. How will graduates be employable when almost all
the people in government that had access to free (or close to free) education have
today made school fees unpayable? So after hustling to pay school fees, one pot
bellied lecturer will still say or imply that if you don't pay 'hmm hmm
hmm' (depending on your gender) you won't graduate whether you read the whole
library or not. Please, help me ask them, are the people in government or the
lecturers in this institutions youths?

They Say We are Too Government Reliant
Isn't that funny? I once chatted with a man who I tried to tell that
if the government provided what is needed for youths to employ themselves, we
wouldn't be looking to them for jobs. In his response, his daughter still ended up
saving 70,000 from her NYSC allowee and any one who is not able to save
enough from their allowee is lazy (she served somewhere in the north oo where
life is cheap and of course she couldn't have been left with no extra allowance
from the family). I just shook my head and kept quiet because if I had talked
now, they may begin to say Nigerian youths are rude again. I would have liked
to ask him what business befitting of a graduate can 70k start?

When people manage to go to school for four or more years ,
after which
they get posted to remote villages where they know no one to go and suffer(in
the name of serving their nation), then they get paid a stipend (19,800), finally
at the end of the year you expect them to start up a business... There is God

My tok don dey too much sef. I know there are many of us who share this
view. Sound it until they hear that we are not stupid. I am not Lazy ,abi u
lazy?

Article by: Ayeoba Gbadega

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