While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old undergrad of University of Port-Harcourt. Shagari was 54 years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was 17. Yemi Osinbajo was 22. The generation of the likes of Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo, Ifeanyi Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Garba Nadama, Awal Ibrahim and so on has gone for good! Some of us in our 40s and 50s, when in school, either in the university or secondary school, had lofty dreams, both personal and societal. We were always motivated by nationalists and inventors who had impacted positively on the cause of humanity. We were voracious readers of novels and other books. Nelkon for our Ordinary Level Physics, Lambert for Chemistry, B.O ADELEKE and Goh Cheng Leong for our Geography, Phebean Ogundipe for Practical English and others like that. We were always flaunting our knowledge of current affairs. Inter-school quiz competition was the in-thing. Fast forward 35 years on and you are shocked and disturbed. Have you ever spoken to or engaged a 20 year-old boy? Ask him what motivates him and he is likely to mention music, hip hop to be precise. He has hundreds of downloaded songs on his phone. He can sing all of them off hand. He know all the singles of Nice, Neato C, Timaya, Davido, Whiz Kid off had. But he does not know anything about history of nationalism in the country. Ideas about good society, responsible family and good conduct do not motivate him. He just wants to make money because his friend who does yahoo is rich and rides a good car, an SUV! The things that interest him are things that do not add value. He has google but never uses it for advancement of knowledge but to download porn and other inanities. Yet, in TWENTY years time, they are the ones that will be contesting to become governors, senators, Reps members and even president. They belong to a generation that does not care about morality. They belong to a generation that is motivated only by money and its acquisition. By 2035 to 2040, they will be our senators, Reps, governors and so on. I wonder if we have ever spared a thought how this country will look like under them. I told a man recently and these are my words: IF A GUY WHO IS IN LAGOS COULD USE FALSE PRETENCE TO OBTAIN $20,000 FROM SOMEONE IN UNITED STATES, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF SUCH A GUY BECOMES A STATE GOVERNOR AND IS IN CHARGE OF AN ALLOCATION HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE TO OBTAIN UNDER FALSE PRETENCE? WHICH HIS STATE IS STATUTORILY ENTITLED TO. I am worried, deeply worried. Are you?

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*youths of nowadays are busy taking selfies,,, no time

No worry by dat time rapture for don happen

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Very well Said. Kai

Hmmm

And who is to blame exactly...1st. THE PARENTS 2nd. THE SOCIETY.

Train your child the way he should go and when he grows he will not depart from it.

While you worry about how the kids of today will be able to lead tomorrow,I worry about how the youths of today will be able to parent their kids tomorrow.The wrongs you see today are probably a tip of the iceberg when that time comes.

Just like your generation scared the previous. Every generation thinks they are better. I have never met a 20 year old in my life who says music(Hiphop) inspired him. I have met some who use Google for porns and many others who used Google for something worthwhile. I have met the good and the bad, If you are surrounded by just the bad and haven't spot anything good about this generation then the problem is with you and your generation(Someone fathered the present generation right?). The job of your generation is to lay down good foundation and principles not whine and bleats.... Buhari isn't whining about this generation, he is laying down principles of Anti-corruption and governance. You can do that in your own little ways.

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Men will always rise to challenges.... It just gat to be better for the sake of my unborn child.

Op,d world is changin. U xpect ppl 2 change widit,dats how it is in evry oda society. do u knw dat dere was a time families eat rice only on sundays and chicken only on xmas day.my granny once told me dat durin dia time.d reward for a child dat comes first in class was 2 climb a table Time n tides,..

Idrismusty97:
I have met the good and the bad, If you are surrounded by just the bad and haven't spot anything good about this generation then the problem is with you

gbam

I see lots of hard working yourhs and enteprenuers making it even with poor economy in nigeria.

then imagine if our system is working like that of usa or China even south Africa; we the yourhs would have moved the country farther than the west