What shall we call this generation of Nigerian youths?
The Yahoo-Yahoo generation?
The Facebook generation, but who hate reading books?
The generation with worsening mass failures in SSSE/WAEC examinations and UME?
The generation of the most unemployable graduates?
The generation with MBA holders who cannot even write a business plan?
The generation of graduates who cannot read and who cannot spell?
As seen even in wrong spellings and grammatical errors of headlines on newspapers, TV and websites like the one saying "who is the hottest" of two Nolywood actresses when even my kid in the kindergarten knows it should "who is hotter".
The generation of university students who cannot compose formal letters?
The generation of youths who celebrate mediocrity and their government also makes mediocrity the order of the day from Yenagoa to Abuja and government appointments are now like playing roulette and coincidentally the pockets of the roulette wheel are numbered from 1 to 36, the total number of the states in Nigeria.
The generation of ring tones singers who claim to be musicians, but who cannot read music and chant ditties worse than nursery rhymes.
The generation of youths who prefer cheating and lying and living in denial as their lifestyle.
The generation of youths without conscience and without shame who scramble for political bribes as cheap as mini bags of rice and recharge cards.
The generation of youths who now see getting a job as a miracle; getting a visa is a miracle and getting bursary is a miracle.
The generation of youths with girls who think and work more with their loins than their brains.
The generation of youths who have skills and talents, but prefer handouts all the way from the classroom to the boardroom.
The generation of youths with the largest population of users of mobile phones, tablets and laptops, but lagging behind Kenya in developing tech startups and prefer useless idle chats and gossip to brainstorming on ideas that will reform and transform them.
The generation ruled by herd mentality and marches on to the drumbeats of mediocrity to the chaos of sociopolitical anarchy.


We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
~ Jean Henri Fabre

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
~ Hunter S. Thompson


There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
~ Sean Penn

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
~ James F. Cooper

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll


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Only God can save we youth from the mess we found our self

I don't know what history will record our generation as; but I am sure it will surely be a bad one

They r d newskol kidss.on a serious note its a shame dat our youth r so so lazy to work hard n d funniest thing is some parent r indirectly encouragin these

you should start from the generation of leaders we have

How did we get here? I believe the past generation of elders are to blame. The sex/money for grades in our institutions are done by who? youths? No! The bad leadership that encouraged corruption and mediocrity is made up of 80% elders. please share in the blame.

bnovative:
How did we get here? I believe the past generation of elders are to blame. The sex/money for grades in our institutions are done by who? youths? No! The bad leadership that encouraged corruption and mediocrity is made up of 80% elders. please share in the blame.

How come the youths of the 1970s and 80s produced the best achievers we have today in corporate Nigeria and in government?

Wasted generation of Nigerian youths

Orikinla:


How come the youths of the 1970s and 80s produced the best achievers we have today in corporate Nigeria and in government?

Be patient and wait for the next coming 20 - 30years before you conclude.

Orikinla:


How come the youths of the 1970s and 80s produced the best achievers we have today in corporate Nigeria and in government?

The youth of today are being taught by those youths.

RockMaxi:

@OP, what will one do again? If you correct or advice them, you are tagged old school.
They prefer learning through their mistakes. But you will still have to give it to some of them that possessed what it really takes to stand out.

Like me sir.