By Wahab Shina Omoniyi

I have been compelled to write and express my disgust at the growing spate of internet fraud among our youth. A careful analysis of the problem indicates that the unabated love for money in our society today is no doubt the proximate cause of this menace.

However, this menace can also be traced to the following factors in the society:
First is the gradual and unabated rot in our educational system.

It is often said that if you want to destroy a society, all that is needed is to destroy the educational system. There is no gainsaying the fact that all is not well with our educational system. Or how do you explain a situation where even teachers and lecturers encourage sorting even right from primary schools. Parents are not excepted from this unwholesome act and in most cases they are the ones that put pressure on the teachers to award higher grades to their wards.

The danger in this is that these children will grow up to become adults, fathers, mothers, administrators, political leaders, religious leaders, cultural custodians etc. I read an online news few days ago where a man wrote the Joint Admission and Matriculation Boarding confessing he was involved in an examination malpractice 21 years ago. In a letter to the examination body titled “Restitution on my JAMB Result 21 Years Ago”, the candidate who claimed to be a born again Christian pleaded for forgiveness from the organization. The Examination body in its response stated categorically that they will only forgive the former candidate only if he is willing to forfeit all the certificate he had acquired using the result of the University Matriculation Examination.

What’s more, Timipade Kemepade is obviously not the only one involved in this malpractice thing, but he has been the bold one coming out to lay down his weapon of examination malpractice and requesting for amnesty. Considering the provision of the law regarding examination malpractice and the reliability of evidence for prosecution, the world is watching how the examination body will handle this matter. Notably, we should not forget the possible collaboration of even staff of the examination body and their cohorts in this unwholesome practice. This is indeed a litmus test to post examination malpractice discoveries and confessions.

However, we should not gloss over these apparent systemic weaknesses. It should be categorically stated that it is because the system is porous and creates room for it that this malpractice has continue to flourishing as a business even though we continue to feign ignorance of it simply because of caliber of people involved. We need to stem the alarming tide of examination malpractice among our youths by first admitting that it exists, secondly by sanctioning those involved in the practices including their collaborators and lastly by encouraging those that work hard to get their grades.

Consequently, it behooves on  the government and other concerned stakeholders to act quickly to forestall disaster as this trend has caused serious damage to not only the education system but also the entire society as the perpetrators do not live in isolation.

Secondly, the spate of indiscipline in our society today calls for concern. It is an understatement to say that discipline has collapsed in our society today. The most pathetic and ironical of it is that it is those that ought to enforce that are mostly involved in this insanity. Most children grow up watching their parents beating the traffic lights on the streets. They watch their parents throwing trash through the windows of their cars, and they watch their parents cutting corners by not paying the required utility bills at home. These children grow up seeing all these harmful practices as normal. It is normal for people to shunt queue today because those who supposed to ensure orderliness will be the ones to disregard it.

Recently, the executives of my community union complained that those that refuse to pay their security levy are always the paramilitary officers. Undoubtedly, these are people that ought to lead by example by educating through their actions how important security is and why every hands must be on deck to ensure everyone participate as security is everybody’s business. Regrettably, the reverse is the case. Unfortunately also, it is indiscipline that metamorphoses into impunity we see in the society today. We cannot afford to throw up our arms in despair and watch everything crumbles before our very eyes while we do nothing. Posterity will definitely not forgive us. The time has come for all of us to put our shoulders to the wheel and help solve this problem once and for all. Like the slogan goes, if you see something, say something.

Thirdly, avarice has taken over the entire sphere of our society. Be it religious, political, social and educational circle. People are offered special prayers according to how much they can contribute. People are awarded mostly according to how much they can offer financially. Chieftaincy titles are given to the highest bidders. With enough money, people believe they can buy any certificate and it doesn’t matter if such certificates are fakes as those that will verify or detect the authenticity also have their own price. The love and desire for money in our society today has gone beyond just love and desire but greed and selfishness. Some are desperately after wealth today not because of the love for it but because they have taken responsibility over and above what their meager resource could accommodate. They must deny their subordinates and contemporaries of their right for them to meet up financially.

At a function sometimes ago, I overheard some guys complaining about their boss, how he has denied them going for training programs as planned and even basic working tools in the office just because he wants to meet up with the foreign exchange rate to pay the school fees of his children schooling abroad. As it is today, even the drivers of Nigeria vehicle have no faith in the vehicles they are driving. They only remain the drivers so they can use the proceed to pay for a better vehicle to convey their family members. Most cannot allow their families to board the same vehicles they drive. This is the true state of the Nigeria state today. Of late, there has been public outcry against the ostentatious lifestyle of some of our religious, political and traditional leaders. Needless to say that most of these leaders got their wealth accumulated through the hard labor or ignorance of their followers.

It is no longer news that friends arrange for kidnap of another friend not really to harm him but just to use him to get ransom from such acts. Spouses have arranged for their own kidnap, siblings have done same recently while some even kidnap themselves for family members to raise money and they share with engaged criminals. How mothers aid one of the children to use another child of hers for rituals. The numbers are countless. With all these happenings and no adequate condemnation or rebuttal from appropriate authorities including religious circles, the youths could not but believe these things are normal.

The solutions to this menace are not far-fetched. The moral decadence in the society must be looked into. Our children must be encouraged to embrace hard work as a means to success. Miraculous wealth should not be celebrated as the societal values. Government need to also revisit the lottery policy that has encouraged unabated gambling among our youths. The National Orientation Agency should wake up and start aggressive societal reorientation.

We need to chart a new course in our quest to free ourselves from the shackles of poverty, disease and ignorance in our society and it must be done holistically. It must be stated that it is not only those boys with laptops that are into yahoo business, every Nigerian that carries out any act to defraud another Nigerian of his or her economic rights or that of the society is undeniably into yahoo business.

In conclusion, there is the urgent need to come up with appropriate policies that will sincerely address all these concerns. Possibly, government can come up with a general Amnesty policy or program that will see everyone lay down their weapon of societal destruction and reboot the system afresh. This can be in form of strictly appointing only those that have shown commitment in patronizing domestic products and services into public offices. A one year or six months’ moratorium could be given for implementation. There is absolutely no doubt, we all need amnesty.

Story, if you like write from now till next year Yahoo no go fit stop,lol.
Country hard brothers,all these people wey dey talk no go give you shishi on how e red for you.

If you no get money,na these same men go ask you say where you dey when your mate dey hustle,lol.

If the benefits outweigh the risk, continue to work.

It saddens me greatly to attempt to answer this question. This is because its not so much about accumulated leadership failure in the country but about devastating damage that Nigerianess has done to mental faculty of an average Nigerian youth.

If you are a regular visitor to popular Nigerian news outlets like www.premiumtimesng.com, www.saharareporters.com, www.nairaland etc to mention a few, you will weep for future of Nigeria.

Let me say that we are not better than the current devourers masquerading around as our leaders.

An average youth here lack capacity to engage in intellectual discourse but is full of energy to rain curses and abuses, at the slightest provocation, on anyone who does not share his idea. Visit these sites and see how poor we are in reasoning and intellectualism.

Over the years youths have become tools and slaves in the hands of politicians. We only crave for money and extravagant lifestyle. We lack soft skills for personal and professional developments yet we want to acquire so much money for doing very little. Have you ever referred a fresh jobless graduate to a job opportunity? The next thing he ask you is: How much do they pay? He won't ask himself weather he posses the requite skill to do the job. All he cares about is money. What a shame.

Man are you trying to write a novel or something??



There’s literally no point you made in there son. what a geyser of baloney

Sad! The situation would rather get worse with Emilokan in power. Oloun ma ję
Where is the 3m jobs he said buhari would provide annually for Nigerian youths in 2015 when he was busy carrying the old man in his jet upandan, campaigning for him? Tinubu knows how to thrive in propaganda. He's at it again. Shine your eyes people

Op, the issue of yahoo-yahoo and related vices are systemic issue where only one party cannot be blamed.

The country has let everyone down. Poverty rate is very high, few jobs, no good road, electricity, biting inflation etc.

To be a well-behaved citizen is more harder than the opposite in this country of ours.

For example, hardly will you find public dustbins in our streets. Where there's one, there's no maintenance. So what do you do as an upright citizen? Put the wrapping in your pocket or wallet till you get home?

Another scenario, ASUU has been on strike, but we watch our government lavish the money for education on frivolous issues. Like they say an idle man is a devil's workshop. These youth are bustling with zeal and passion to earn and contribute. But when all reasonable doors are closed, what should they do?

Though Yahoo-yahoo is dangerously rising, but I've known and met far more hard working and dedicated youths like me that just want to make an honest living than the former. For if you corner a goat to the wall with no option of escape, it MUST bite you!

Fix electricity, our roads, security and easy access to capital to start business and revamp our trade schools to modern standards. Then watch the vice go down.

In the unlikely scenario that it does not go down, make it a law to punish offenders with minimum of 5 years imprisonment without an option of fine.

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Yahoo yahoo people



Over to you.

Story for the Gods....

Leave story and come to my shrine. A trial will convince you.

PDP REJECTS ARE YAHOO BOYS

Only God can save the youths of nowadays

Noted

Naijiriya

Yahoo

Yahoo boys...hmm

In all honesty, those boys dey help the economy. Hotels,fast food,clubs, boutiques, auto dealers etcs,owners are cashing out big time, expanding their businesses and employing more workers thereby leading to a reduction in unemployment level.

Yahoo has provided a means to poverty alleviation to some families,where the government has failed terribly.

Yahoo has greatly help our entertainment industry especially the music scene has it has helped produce musicians and alleviate their status and that of their families, friens, close ones, associates etc.
It has also helped the entertainment industry where they (G boys) attend those musicians shows, events, comedy shows and so on,which has generated lots of funds for its stakeholders.

It has curb or reduce physical theft, Robberies, kidnapping etc,among the youth as more ventures into it.

Yahoo has done harm but the good far outweigh the bad currently.


In conclusion, Yahoo isn't the main problem of this country, the leading probably of this country is it's leaders. The efcc should channel it's energy into curbing corruption among the elected officials.

They created this monsters themselves by making it difficult for the common man to even feed himself talk more of his family as the system has not created an enabling environment for its citizens. Instead, it's the opposite.

If there was a good enabling environment for Nigerians, good leadership, a system where hardwork is greatly rewarded, education prioritized, Corruption curbed and it penetrators greatly punished. You think yahoo will not drastically reduced?

When solving a problem, tackle it from it's roots and success will be almost inevitable.



Ciao

BAT built MM International Airport, Lagos.
BAT built 3rd mainland bridge.
BAT built Lagos international stadium.
BAT built Festac

Please add what else you can remember, BAT did after he created Lagos in his own image and likeness.

Yahoo Yahoo is a Southern Nigerian problem, but the media and social media, that are dominated by the South, will never tell you the truth. From Lagos to Calabar, from Ogun to Delta, from Edo to Imo, most people living in all these regions don't see anything wrong in being a thief. In fact, it is an achievement. My brother once spent just 2 days in Taraba and he was shocked how the traders and mechanics there are not out to cheat you mercilessly. Once you cross Kogi state into the North, you would wonder if they are Nigerians too, except on the issue of insecurity which the Southern media play out of proportion though.

Across the South, there is one thing they have in common. It is the Pentecostal Charismatic yahoo yahoo of a religion started by the biggest charlatan of them all, Archbishop Benson Idahosa. The religion has been growing like a blackhole, since the last 40 years, sucking in the adherents of other Christian dominations like Catholics, Anglicans, and even traditional worshippers, by promising them instant prosperity and heaven on earth. Their pastors have accumulated stupendous wealth by psychologically working on their members to steal whenever they have the opportunity, and then return 10% to their Jesus Christ as tithe. That is why the same people who fill up churches on Sundays are the ones stealing and committing havocs from Mondays to Saturdays in the banks, civil service, police check points, doing yahoo, in the government houses, in olosho's corners, etc. They then go back to fill up their mega and small churches the next Sunday, thank God for their successful criminal operations and pay him 10% of their loot for another successful week ahead. The cycle is perpetual.

The lie they normally tell themselves is: "Northerners do these more, just that they are not arrested". Over 95% of Southerners have never crossed Kogi state, so they keep believing the lies.

If our next generation must not be like or worse than us, then we should fix these rubbish mentality that has been programmed into our heads by those who constantly lie to us for a business.

My question is how can it be stopped especially now that this write up is full of big grammars that many youths cannot read...

Hmmm

Lol. Some people go soon realize say school no b scam.

It should be Nigeria Politicians looting public funds and the future of Nigeria

Too much talk no dey full basket.

Una politicians have looted the past, present and future wealth of this nation what else do you expect

Abegii

Security

This Current Generation of Youths Are Terrible &
Useless , Youths Who Don't Engage in Any Meaningful And Productive Ventures ...They Are Only Interested in Sex,Hard Drugs, Cultism , Gay & Lesbianism, Hook Up And Prostitution Scam & Rituals

Vote Peter Obi and it all ends.

Proudly OBIdient.

Yahoo too good

How can Yahoo stop when our leaders and politicians are the real boss of it

As for me, I don't judge or blame anyone into it (na who wear shoe dey know where it hurts) considering how some group of persons have deliberately grounded this country to the extent of looting for their unborn generations to come while living the rest to suffer, but when caught be ready to face the music.

I couldn't read the whole thing, read more than half of it and discovered man was bitter!

Yahoo is a global media and tech company connecting people to their passions

It'll crash. But government needs to work smart. Go after kingpins and reconfigure them. Na dem gangan go catch others