Writing for Naij.com from Magodo, Lagos, [size=16pt]Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye[/size] says the Yoruba youths are no longer making their valuable contributions to the political and cultural life in Nigeria. What can the Yoruba people do to restore lost influence? Lateef Raji, a public policy analyst, in an article titled “Dwindling Oil Revenue: What Next for Nigeria?” posited that today, despite the pitiful state of unemployment in Nigeria, ironically, the nation is still rated as the third destination of investors and one of the fastest-growing economy in the world. Raji noted that Nigeria is a golden land of numerous opportunities for those who are resourceful, ingenious, creative, innovative, inventive, groundbreaking, enterprising, hardworking, focused, visionary and, most significantly, disciplined. Consequently, as a concerned Nigerian, I want to question the role(s) of


Yoruba youths in the current fight against unemployment, starvation and poverty in Nigeria. This question was necessitated by my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today. I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity. Today, among ten Nigerians submitting their resumes to multinational corporations eight would be Yorubas. Folks from my generation in the Western Nigeria are too lazy to tap from the abundant opportunities that litter the streets of, say, Lagos, for primitive accumulation of wealth.



The Igbos, and, by extension, the Niger-Deltans and the Northerners have indirectly taken over the control of economy of Lagos, Nigeria’s indisputable number one centre of success, excellence and opportunities. The Apapa wharf in Lagos has virtually been taken over by the Easterners. The data that I got from the Nigerian custom services divulges that 63% of those licensed to transact businesses in Apapa Wharf are Igbos. More so, data collected from licensing office reveals that owners of 56% of commercial motorcycles in Lagos are Northerners and Easterners. The lucrative transport business has been hijacked from the Yorubas. Today, the major work of average Yoruba youths on the streets of Lagos is to collect royalty, due and charges from the Hausas and Igbos, using their motorcycles to make cool cash from their land. Ninety-five percent of transport, travel and tour firms operating in Lagos are owned by the enterprising and hardworking Easterners. The Yorubas stay at various intersections harassing hardworking people transacting their legal businesses in the name of collecting charges and dues for the local government. (Owoda)


I also discovered that majority of the few Yorubas riding commercial motorcycles in Lagos are locally-trained automobile engineers that have abandoned their workshops. Furthermore, the popular Ladipo and Owode motor spare parts markets in Lagos are now solidly in the hands of Igbos. As usual, the Yoruba youths are in the market collecting dues for their local government chairmen and the Iyaloja General of Lagos. Yaba, Oyigbo, Sabo, Oshodi, Agege, Alaba, Idumota, etc. markets have been taken over by the Easterners and Northerners who are predominantly youths. Let me also assert unequivocally that the Igbo youths are now becoming more prosperous in the entertainment industry than the Yoruba youths. Today, the Yorubas hardly tune their DSTVs to the Yoruba movie channel of the satellite television; rather, they watch some other movie channel that show English movies with actors and actresses of Igbo extraction. Why? Because most Yoruba movies are short of creativity. I can also articulate that 85% of the CEOs and executive directors of commercial banks operating in Nigeria today are Igbos and Hausas under the age of 50. They are very talented in boardroom politics, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, and they assist each other with an amazing ease. Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-three. According to the National Universities Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have the highest number of professors and doctorate degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and Ondo states that used to top the list have been demoted to number four and six respectively.



In 2014, the reports of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the Yorubas have been upturned by the Easterners in terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in 2013. The Yorubas are also missing in the sports sector. The Golden Eaglets, Flying Eagles, Super Eagles, Flamingoes, Falconets, Super Falcons, D’Tigers, other national teams are dominated by the Igbos and Hausas. The team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria in 2013 was tagged Biafran national team by some columnists and social commentators, including myself. Politically, the Igbos and Hausas are more united than the Yorubas. The result of the 2015 presidential election is a point of reference. The Hausas voted massively for General Buhari of the APC, while the Igbos extraordinarily voted for Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP. Sadly, the Yorubas had no bearing during the election. Jonathan’s inner circle members are currently blaming the Yorubas for their son’s expected defeat.


Victorious Buhari’s teammates are reportedly saying that the Yorubas contributed little or nothing to the success of their kinsman. In conclusion, I want to impel my generation in the Western part of Nigeria to wake up and begin to act. The nation of Nigeria that I am seeing today is hemorrhaging. I suggest we put ourselves in strategic positions. The bitter truth is that our leaders only think for themselves and their children.
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I have been saying this for ages, today's yoruba youths are not as hardworking as the generation before them. All of the strides made by the older yorubas have been eclipsed today by younger generation of Igbos. Before you attack me...I have tremendous respect for the older yorubas but not the younger ones today...they are uncouth, lazy, entitled, unbridled, lost a sense of responsibility, gossip, irrational, feminine. Most of these stems from the breakdown of the family structure....most yoruba younger men are now been raised by single mothers without fathers at home. And they older yorubas know what I'm talking about.

My advice to younger yorubas...STOP LIVING ON THE PAST GLORY OF THE OLDER YORUBAS.

Lol


Yoruba making Giant strides everywhere, and even if we are not doing enough, we aren't going on radio stations to declare war

interesting piece of sh*t. saw this post last year or so.

does this mean we will be seeing this post every year, especially on occasions when you are feeling inadequate and a failure?

leave the Yoruba youths to do with themselves as they wish.

those doing agbero are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of all Yoruba youths. But I'm sure you can't understand that concept.

you and the person whose opinion you posted need a recharge of your brains.

come to Cele, dia headquarters... looking so ugly and annoying.

Pls I am nt trying to insult d Yoruba youth but truth be told, the way d attack d igbos is truly uncalled for. Just open a thread bearing igbo name n u see d trash people from dis region will post

Uduak2019:
I have been saying this for ages, today's yoruba youths are not as hardworking as the generation before them. All of the strides made by the older yorubas have been eclipsed today by younger generation of Igbos. Before you attack me...I have tremendous respect for the older yorubas but not the younger ones today...they are uncouth, lazy, entitled, unbridled, lost a sense of responsibility, gossip, irrational, feminine. Most of these stems from the breakdown of the family structure....most yoruba younger men are now been raised by single mothers without fathers at home. And they older yorubas know what I'm talking about.

My advice to younger yorubas...STOP LIVING ON THE PAST GLORY OF THE OLDER YORUBAS.

Yoruba youth like seun osewa

chikel2000:
Pls I am nt trying to insult d Yoruba youth but truth be told, the way d attack d igbos is truly uncalled for. Just open a thread bearing igbo name n u see d trash people from dis region will post

the way KANU attacked Yoruba on radio Biafra is well deserved?