We grind daily.
Rising from the comfort of our beds before the break of dawn.
Sometimes before the cock crows, we hit the road with much vigour and optimism, all in a bid to make bread out of the stones we came to meet.
Our sweat becomes the extinguisher of thirst, the body freshener. We leave footprints on stones, convert thoughts to doings...
We fly without planes, drive without cars, walk even when all strength have vanished like smoke into thin air...
After the hassles, we still can't access good or basic facilities. We ain't broken still, we keep hope alive, we keep pressing on. The pain that comes with schooling in Nigeria is absorbed, and refined as strength.
Overtime we've become government unto ourselves due to the insensitivity and callousness of government.
No qualitative education, No job, No grant, No loan etc. In the midst of the miry clay, the Nigerian youth remains innovative, independent and outstanding.
Like a flash, one who would go down history as a political and executive error pops up in London to describe Nigerian youths as being lazy... Gone are those days of complaints... We all have our paints to design our desirable future... If you can't make us, don't fall us....
Some argue if he said ALL or MOST, but what does it matter, he has painted the picture of his dreams, and it was a bad dream.
YOUR THOUGHTS...
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"Nigerian youths are lazy & uneducated. Always wanting free oil money" ~ PMB
ME: Sir, you are absolutely correct. One of the lazy Nigerian youths who is enjoying free oil money had an accident with the power bike he bought with free oil money not too long ago, and he was flown abroad for treatment with free oil money, then he hired a jet with free oil money from London to Abuja after his treatment.
Sir, I completely agree with you that the Nigerian youths are lazy and uneducated and always wanting free oil money. Their role models are in Aso Rock enjoying free oil money without even solving any problem for the country.
Why would anyone disagree with you that the Nigerian youths are uneducated? It's very obvious. That's why they don't even know their rights. They keep defending your ineptitude.
You enjoyed free education as a young man, but today the youths are deprived of basic education. You were a governor, a petroleum commissioner and ahead of states as a youth, but today, youths are on social media defending your failures.
Honestly, I agree with you that the Nigerian youths are lazy, that's why you ruled Nigeria as a youth and have also grabbed the job as an old man. The youths are too ignorant to even know the implication of your comments. They don't even know you and your fellow old men are doing jobs they should ordinarily be doing.
Dear Mr President.
My name is Kelvin, I am a Nigerian and I am also a youth.
I am passionate about writing and performing as a spoken word poet but for the past five months, I have been locked up somewhere in the heart of a village obeying this clarion call with the whole of my heart and serving a father land which has never served me.
I teach these kids mathematics and Chemistry and even organize evening classes for them without collecting a single dime from neither the school nor the state government.
Ask the attendance record, I have never missed a single class and just last term I added Computer Studies to the subject I teach these kids and all these is simply because I love the hope I see in the eyes of these kids.
I love it when they say "Corper, I promise next time I would do better and score higher". I love watching them trying to impress me because by so doing, they also impress themselves too.
So Dear Mr President, I'm sorry if I am also part of the lazy Nigerian Youth you spoke about, I guess there is only so much a mere mortal can do right??
But remember that while you were enjoying all expense paid trips abroad, I was here in this "networkless - no stable light - hardly speaking English - toad eating - never finding cold coke-village" teaching and inspiring these kids to have hope in a country that has failed her people a thousand million times.
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I am His_Storyteller and I am not a lazy Nigerian Youth.
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