If I got one Naira for every time
I hear a sentence beginning with “children of nowadays…” I’d be a billionaire by
now. The average Nigerian youth is perceived as a lazy person who wants to get
rich quick with as little amount of work as possible. This statement I believe is
very true and very false. There are a
number of reasons why these accusations against our youth cannot be faulted.
These reasons are very obvious and easily identifiable by everyone except the
youth. Dear Nigerian youth, I am not
on the other side, we are both on one side, the young side. Please listen to one
of your own and change as required because the “change” we have all been asking
for from our leaders, from the forth coming elections and from our system will
only begin and succeed when it starts first in our minds,
and then in our attitudes. We will have to live this changed lifestyle as the new normal.
Without this, this change will be worth a little more than the 10 Naira change
our president recently gave us for one litre of fuel.
