Few days after the independence celebration, it hasn’t escaped the mind how vapid the moods of many Nigerian youths were on the day joy and excitement ought to rule.
Of course numerous reasons precipitated such bland celebrations and those reasons are what every Nigerian youth can easily mutter. It has always been so easy to blame the government and the old generations than to look beyond and see the heroes we lock-up within.
Casey Stengel once said- All blame is a waste of time. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration
Yes! The country as well as her citizens deserves more but that is a discussion for another day.
UN defines a youth as “those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years” while in Nigeria “a youth is someone within 18 to 30 years”.
Now let’s mute all the raging blames for a while and remember those individuals born and nurtured in Nigeria yet they strived and survived under the same government with similar or probably worse conditions.
- Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun. a.k.a Wizkid (Nigerian singer)- Born in Surulere, Lagos state, grew up in a household with twelve female siblings.
- Kelechi Iheanacho (Nigerian Footballer)– Born in Imo state. Represented Taye Academy of Owerri as a youth
- Tara Fela-Durotoye (Nigerian Make-up Entrepreneur)– Born in Lagos. She started House of Tara at the age of 20, from her living room.
- Genevieve Nnaji (Nigerian Actress)- was born in Mbaise, Imo State…etc
There’s an innate aura that every Nigerian begot, originally crested like a patent right on our souls that needs exploring. There are many others whose situations were as casual as ours yet they didn’t spend time whining about the numerous problems in the country. They discovered what they could offer to their father land through their talents; they invested their time in exploring, developing and displaying those talents amidst all hindrances; their “Naija Aura” came to play and now, they contribute in saving Nigeria.
It is sad that most youths do not even have a vision except the one that lie in bets, waywardness and drug abuses.
“Recent study by Dr Aliyu Abubakar stated that 85 percent of mad people in Nigeria are youths within the age bracket of 18-38 years,”
How can we tell the upcoming generations that we as youths found gratifications in inhaling animal faeces, toilet pits, and dye powders? That all the hope we could build was wasted on bets and coupon numbers. No way!
Our generation is blessed with intrinsic and extrinsic resources. We have social media, zest of youth, our Naija aura and our problems because without problems there won’t be a solution just like without a race, a winner cannot emerge. So “Naija” is our home, make up your mind to slay every obstacle in your path and together we shall join to save Nigeria.
This article was written by Livinus Onyeka; connect with him on IG here
Nice article… cool and straight forward
It’s indeed educative. Thumbs up to the writer.
Thank you bro…I appreciate
Wow… real truth
Thanks Nelly..I appreciate your comment
Talented writer……
Nothing but the truth.
Thank you Sammy
Beautiful write up… Thank you for enlightening my mind
Am very glad that I did
Thanks
….nice write up… but I was looking more expansion because Naira issues plenty… but it was good…thumbs up
Thanks brother …would have loved to expand but the size of the article was limited. Thanks for your comment though.
Nice write up, really inspiring.
Thanks dear
it’s a good write up and well articulated. We the youths and the up coming youths, should be productive and also make use of our time in engaging in something meaningful that we yield us success.
Nice one dear
You said it like it is, we youths really need to think and stop complaining
This is lovely and very educative… Keep it up dear
Quite inspirational…Keep up the good work dear.
Onyekachi, nice work you’ve got
This is a very good write-up. You did a good one hitting the nail on the head.I think what most youths need is a platform to express themselves or someone to give them the push/support to actualize their dreams.
This is a very good write-up. You did a good one hitting the nail on the head.I think what youths need is a platform to express themselves or someone to give them the push/support to actualize their dreams.
Real talk