By Political Animal.
George W.Bush asked then Chinese President,Hu Jintao what kept him up at night–Hu said ” finding jobs for Chinese School leavers and graduates.
In Nigeria,with a
- 5% youth unemployment rate , Nigerian leaders,at all levels are sleeping soundly.
They are even looking for ways to increase it to at least 70%.
Seeing the youths suffering or people suffering is the blood that gives our leaders life.
The word “Nigeria leaders” stopped to exist after October 1960.
The present leaders are not only sleeping soundly,they are snoring .They pretend to sleep peacefully like Children while the nation is in distress.
But they shall wake up soon.
Unfortunately our youths by not reading and digging into history are playing into the hands of wicked leaders.
If you don’t know your history then you will not know where you are coming from and what you can do to brighten your future in the context of the governance and politics in Nigeria.
This is the weakness that our politicians are exploiting in today’s youth .They are hiding the history of Nigeria and thereby exploiting the ignorance of our youths.
They also know that most Nigerian youths don’t like to read unless for passing exams ,it is even affecting the adults.
If you want to hide any information from some Nigerians write it in long articles or messages, and put the important thing the kernel of the matter in the middle,you have gotten them.
They want it short short.
Unfortunately history is not short.
Nigerian youths love reading baseless things that they can gossip about.
If you tell them or give them historical facts ,what they should know,many of them remain inattentive.
Sensible historical facts don’t trend in Nigeria because those who should make them trend are the youths.
That is why it is easy for politicians to get away with their lies to them.
Some Nigerian youths love to follow musicians whose lyrics has no deep thought unlike our days.
They hardly listen to music that awaken their consciousness.
They are blind to the truth about Nigeria because they read not and they grow not in the knowledge of the politics of Nigeria before and from independence.
Just open a US,UK or a Western based trends on anything including politics and compare it with a Nigeria based trend and see the difference.
A lot of these youths on internet hardly comprehend intelligently what they are into, politically in the Nation
The vast amount of knowledge you see on foreign trends and threads are always topical and inspired.
You can learn about different things including the political evolution in their nations backed with facts and links.
But here in our nation you get abuses and madness.
Because of lack of research and reading by some of our youths, the quality of conversations and comments remain intellectually low especially on political issues.
They are hardly deep.Some can even get angry about the truth in ignorance.
Though some Nigerians are well read and knowledgeable
but they hardly articulate their thoughts politically.
Therefore the politicians hardly take them seriously.
Part of the reason they had no arrowhead or leader or leaders during the last protest.
Many of them prefer to listen to those who make the loudest noise even when they know nothing about the intrigues of Nigerian politics.
Some may tell you that the ones who ‘read” are silenced politically ,there is little to what the “righteous” can do in this country.
This is exactly the expectation of Nigerian politicians.
That is why it is always alarming seeing the number of youths who want to participate at the BBN every year.
The worst is even the fans of (Wizkid and Davido) trolling and debating who is the best as if they are in campaign fields.I have never seen such a stupid thing .
This foolishness is alarming and very high on Instagram.
Atimes I feel like weeping for our youths.
How can a Nigerian youth be using Android phones , spending all the time online and will still be asking stupid questions that have all the answers in his or her hand.
Nawaooo.
BREAKING NEWS.
Prince Philip,the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, father of Prince Charles and patriach of a turbulent royal family that he sought to ensure would not be Britain’s last ,died on Friday at Windsor Castle in England.He was 99 and very close to his 100.A few months short of his 100th birthday .
Every person has their faults or prejudices,he wasn’t a perfect.But he stayed in his lane.
One thing that cannot be taken away from him is that he was a man who dedicated his life to service and to his country.
My thoughts are with the Queen,his children, and their grandchildren.
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