macaranta:
It's a mindset thing..the Niger Delta youths need to understand that true wealth comes from exchanging value.You cannot live all your youthful days consuming and not contributing to humanity and expect to become somebody in life.You can intimidate with strength and weapon today,but what about tomorrow when old age sets in and your strength fails you?what legacy will you be leaving behind?.This is a wake up call for all Niger Delta youths and by extension Nigerian Youths,kill that consumption mentality,seek to create value in life.
He who blames everyone for his troubles will never find solution,so quit blaming your parents,government, etc for your misfortunes,take charge of your life and destiny.
Bless

greatmen:
You are high on some major stuff! So bayelsans and Rivers state folks are lazy, my first question when did you come to Rivers State? How long have you been in the Nigerdelta, How dare you open your mouth and insult the ijaw man, these are hard working fishermen, the ikweres hard working farmers and traders both upland and riverine, people who where always content and open to strangers, you destroy their very source of lively hood for generations did they beg you to exploit their land what happened to the groundnut pyramids etc everyone is eating fat on the oil wealth of the Niger delta, the Nation has become lazy that should be your headline such a shame, these are people who traded with the British king opobo etc enlightened humble people, you turned them like this even a gentle bull can turn into a beast when it's trampled on, I know the heavy tribalism I faced in she'll during my IT days the only opportunities given to my people was to serve as tea girls and errand boys with all the graduates, my dad a hard working retired officer in the Nigerian airforce stayed in a rank for years due to the region and tribal sentiment even if he was more qualified than many goat sellers, such rubbish! I am a graduate from one of the best universities in geology with an msc yet to see an oil and gas work is major wahala even in my region, now your telling me if someone offers me an Ak47 to put an end to this injustice I would gladly do it!!

OrlandoOwoh:
The rural areas of Delta State are worse. There you could see jobless men in their 40's having more than two wives.

Scholes007:
I don't know why i have this feeling that you exhibit some of this characters described by the op... You just confused.

MyPWisINCORRECT:
I strongly agree with Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State in his assertion that Bayelsan Youth (in extension Rivers youth) are lazy. Read here https://www.nairaland.com/3110142/bayelsans-lazy-governor-dickson

They are my brothers but they make me sad.

Most of our youth, particularly the uneducated are not ready to work, they will rather wait for hand-outs from Politicians, Amnesty Committee and Corporate Organisations for Nairabet (will you blame them, their fathers were POOLS addicts), Tramadol (why won't they abuse Tramadol when their Fathers sniffed SNUFFS) and other controlled substances.

In Rivers State in particular, the youth are so lazy and idle (remember an idle mind is the devils workshop) such that they are now willing tools for Satan himself to engage them in clapping (term used for rapid shooting of firearms) at law abiding citizens for no cogent and verifiable reason.

Orashi and Engenni communities in Rivers State are a no go area due to the actions of youth cult groups like DEY GBAM, DEY WELL, ICELANDERS and GREENLANDERS beheading people every other day.

Ogoni communities are a no go area,
Etche communities are a no go area,
Rivers Ijaw water ways are a no go area,
even Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor communities are gradually being overtaken by these lazy scumbags who kidnap people going about their lawful businesses.

How did we get here? LAZINESS AND IGNORANCE!!

A young man who is well cultured and from a well structured family with right parenting will never want to engage in nefarous activities even if he's offered a million Naira. If he is without a job, he will locate his enterpreneural skills and erk a living.

Who is to blame? OUR PARENTS IN THE DELTA, PEER GROUPS, THE POLITICAL CLASS AND THE SOCIETY AT LARGE

A Father who wakes up in the morning to Kaikai (Spirit) and Snuff, soaks himself in alcohol, ends up in Draft Game/Pools Office for the rest of the day. What kind of offspring or parental guidance can such a Father offer?

The child is brought up by the streets and sees laziness as a way of life.

But there are no jobs!! SAYS WHO??

In Port Harcourt for instance, go to Rumuokoro roundabout, the menial jobs are being done by Hausa/Middle Belt boys. You will see these Hausa boys with their wheelbarrows erking a living. At that same Rumuokoro roundabout, the touts are mostly Rivers boys, those harassing motorists are mostly Rivers boys...may God help us, Amen.

Go to Mile One Market, go to Oil Mill Market, go to Ikokwu Auto Markets, go to Town Market, etc... Less than 10 percent of the Traders and Hustlers are Rivers people. Rather those harassing the traders are mostly Rivers people.

Go to project sites, our youth get employment slots yet they sell them to Hausa boys. I visited a project site in Port Harcourt, I wept. All the boys building the drainages were Hausas. If such opportunities were given to our boys, they will show up at noon every other day or they may not even show up till pay day.

Unfortunately, an average Rivers or Bayelsan youth has institutionalised criminality. He is so lazy to the extent that his quest for criminality is insatiable. Same youth collects Amnesty funds, LGA Chairman's Allawee, dues from cult members, matching ground from business owners, yet he still wants to snatch a phone from a poor girl out there, he still wants to kidnap that hardworking woman that owns a boutique, he still wants to rob that bank on the major road...Them swear for una??

It is high time we told ourselves the truth, Warri as a city is paying for the sins of the youth. Our Rivers and Bayelsa youth should learn from other people's mistakes.

The Government has a role to play, create opportunities for our youth to acquire basic education so they can think rationally.

The National Orientation Agency and the media has a role to play. There is need to sensitize the youth on the futility of their actions.

The Religious Organisations have have a role to play. Since these lazy dudes converge in your auditoriums at least once a week, sensitize them on how their lifestyles affect other law abiding citizens negatively.

The Judiciary has a role to play. Any youth caught with firearms should languish in jail.

The Security Agencies have a role to play. They should make the Niger Delta region a virtual panopticon thereby creating that "you are being watched" atmosphere.

The Multinationals have a role to play. Remember when you build the man, you build the community. Dissident groups like the Avengers are springing up because for over 50 years of your operations, you failed to impact lives and environment possitively.

Above all, the family has a very major role to play. Na from Papa and Mama, you fit guess how pikin go be.

I rest my case.

alpontif:
If you have ever done any infrastructure project as a Contractor in the Niger Delta, You will Know that Niger Delta Youths are pathologically Lazy.....in a truly scary way.

Because they are Lazy, they want free money.

No sane industrialist will site any project in the Niger Delta, NONE.

Do you know that 90% of the Oil Spillage in the Delta is usually a result of intentional vandalism by Niger Deltans, who will then SUE Shell for Degrading their environment?

Those people are real criminals.

But I respect their women.

HopeAtHand:


Amaechi willingly dealt with their excesses, he cut off the means by which they extorted money and criminalized those activities. No more free money from harassing people. Amaechi was also tough on militants resulting in Ateke fleeing from River to Lagos and Sobomabo George being killed.

When the political will is there, militancy, kidnappings, extortions, cultism and laziness will be checked.

HopeAtHand:


A million likes for you. Simply because we are blessed with crude oil shouldn't becloud our creative zeal and desire for excellence. Laziness is a sin.

MyPWisINCORRECT:


I share in your sentiments on some issues. However, I must also condemn the attitude of some of our youth.

Give them the work, they won't show up. Like I stated earlier, I went to a project site, I saw only Hausa workers. This was simply because, if they had hired our skilled artisans, they wouldn't have met the project timeline.

While our boys will be calling for better working condition, Hausa boys can hustle under any condition.

Work no dey, work no dey...Hausa boys dey jab wella for PH

Work no dey, work no dey...Igbo boys go show PH from Umudike, position for Ikoku or Ojoto, 5 years later e go carry Highlander go for Christmas...Na for nairaland here we go dey see 5 bedroom duplex e dey build for Umudike...

Work no dey, work no dey...Yoruba boys go hang around Shell and Total gate, go there five years later e don position for one office...

Wetin dem dey do wey our people no get foresight to do?

I have first hand experience in this regard. It is very bad.

We the enlightened ones must call for the reorientation of our siblings.

Pangea:


My brother, i served in GSS okpoama and they have even gave me NYSC Merit award for my trouble!
Those were the days

asha80:
if you read "things fall apart" by Chinua achebe you would understand what the person you quoted was alluding to with the post he quoted

Truckpusher:
I never wanted to engage your ignorant nature on this your concocted shiit load of crap you actually wasted time to pull out from your ass but with this particular comment of yours I couldn't help it but put your naivety to the dust bin of all ridiculous write-ups where it usually belong to.

You need to go back to class, dust up some books ,read them up ,digest them properly and compare the past and current political structure , politics and policy/policies of this entity called ''one Nigeria'' as it has affected the ecosystem ,the people and the value system of the Niger Delta people as well as social justice justice.

When you're done with this research and follow up on it religiously then maybe just maybe I might find you worthy enough to engage you next time you start having diarrhea of the finger.


FYI:The three major tribes of this geographical expression is a disgrace to mankind, they only succeeded in creating one of the most useless state in the Gulf Of Guinea .

3sha4lyf:



I liked your post, and I shared your post, cos I aptly agree with you. But rather than rivers people to understand this fact, they tag politics to everything. Rivers people think life should be like when Odili was in power... Share the money. Had this same conversation with my guys last week and I'm glad Dickson reechoed my thoughts on the average rivers person. In fact, there's a popular saying that the average first son in IKWERRE, perhaps Rivers State is LAZY. That's as true as saying there are 9million bicycles in Beijing, if you understand what that means.

loco4love:
I DISAGREE WITH POSTER AND THIS IS WHY:

I have seen why many youths are in the dismal situation they are in today. Its not totally their fault it is the Nigerian system that contributes the most effort to make sure the youth fail. How many jobs has the federal, state, local government created for the youth who just left university and secondary school. Some of the youth could not afford to finish secondary school while Buhari can afford to send his daughter to a university in Surrey, England. Everyone is not in the same situation as you. Everyone has not been through the same experiences as you have. Everyone was not born INTO the same conditions as you were. Wake up and smell the Arabica. Don't blame victims for the crime blame the perpetrators. The perpetrators are the elitists and their goons who own the Nigerian system who call themselves: president, vice president, governor, local government chairman, dpo, police constable, politician, lecturer who fornicates with the students in the schools, etc.

Nigeria is hell and it is run by imps and demon-lovers. It makes me wonder how God-fearing folk survive everyday in Nigeria.

DifferentBoy1:
Die it.. who deh echo Rivers for this careless matter
My state is a peace loving and viable state... we are industrious.
If a Bayelsan governor talks about it's citizens, why add Rivers
Lazyness is everywhere.

siobh:
I did serve there too, talk about lazy corper i was one.
the kids werent even ready to learn anyway.

9ja4show:
How did you all come about this assumption? Just because your neigbour is a lazy man you decided to paint "most" people lazy...from the east to the west and south to north , tell me where there are no lazy people.

This must be coming from an igbo man thinking they are most industrious in nigeria because them carry you from village go learn electrical work. E-diot

MyPWisINCORRECT:


My guy, don't blame it on social justice or resource control

Blame it on our ignorance...We must start looking beyond oil and gas...

Because if we don't... ETCHE, OGONI, OMOKU, ABUA, etc might become ghost towns in a year or two...

Why are we killing ourselves? Why are we beheading ourselves?

stagger:


This man, the OP is very correct. I am a Niger Deltan and I concur with the OP's postulations 100%. OUR YOUTHS ARE LAZY! I have lived in Rivers state, Bayelsa, Edo state, Anambra State, Lagos, etc. Who are the real workers and hustlers? It was in Lagos I first knew that the average Northern youth is very hardworking. Go there now. Who are the people riding bikes and working on construction projects?

I don't want to start talking of what I have seen with my own eyes living in the Niger Delta. In my own place, kai kai and baby papa/baby mama syndrome is the order of the day. If the men are not looking for the latest addition to the baby mama list, they are quaffing hard liquor and akpeteshi. Imagine one day I drove round my village at 11 am and I saw close to 20 able-bodied young men like me just sitting in the village square drinking. Meanwhile the women are busy farming. One day, I was driving to the village with my wife in the evening and I asked her to count the number of women and men returning from the farm. She counted close to 50 women returning from the farm over a 15-minute period before we saw an old man riding by.

Tell me, is such a society not on the edge of ruin? And you wonder why people would rather become militants and kidnappers than do anything else?

greatmen:
My bro your right in some areas but you forget the headquarters of these multinationals aren't even located in that region the so called house boys and yoruba boys have connect from HQ if you talk of NNPC the same thing local content in Bayelsa few rivers and Delta folks work there , carry your cv go local content gate na insults you go get, Idea you have recommendation from God's knows who, now let's talk about the pib policy which the present administration cancelled, great minds put that bill in place that would have been a fair playing field for this region ( PIB Bill) find out about it

MyPWisINCORRECT:


I share in your sentiments on some issues. However, I must also condemn the attitude of some of our youth.

Give them the work, they won't show up. Like I stated earlier, I went to a project site, I saw only Hausa workers. This was simply because, if they had hired our skilled artisans, they wouldn't have met the project timeline.

While our boys will be calling for better working condition, Hausa boys can hustle under any condition.

Work no dey, work no dey...Hausa boys dey jab wella for PH

Work no dey, work no dey...Igbo boys go show PH from Umudike, position for Ikoku or Ojoto, 5 years later e go carry Highlander go for Christmas...Na for nairaland here we go dey see 5 bedroom duplex e dey build for Umudike...

Work no dey, work no dey...Yoruba boys go hang around Shell and Total gate, go there five years later e don position for one office...

Wetin dem dey do wey our people no get foresight to do?

I have first hand experience in this regard. It is very bad.

We the enlightened ones must call for the reorientation of our siblings.

Truckpusher:
All I can see on this thread are hardworking Igbo,Yoruba ,Hausa and Middle belt youths living the life they deserve and churning out great results while the Niger Delta youths are the scum of the earth (Nigeria), drinking every damn bottle being brewed in the country, while killing themselves.

One thing I love about self acclaimed ''better than you mentality/attitude'' is simply the fact that the one who makes the most noise is probably the one with the most useless set of lifestyle but in one erroneous rushed judgement to feel good they usually continue with their foolishness by labeling others whatever they feel.


The thousands of youths across Nigeria that are languishing in one form of societal ills and vices or the other are all from the Niger Delta too?
Funny enough some persons like hopeathand and co that wants to be politically correct while pandering to some miserable fellows in this forum are right here applauding the stupidity of one man with a moniker he dare not expose let's know what his region looks like.

Yeye dey smell

9ja4show:


Because you went to the village, your head was telling you everyone is lazy; my friend run along and stop deceiving yourself, maybe the people in your village are lazy

MyPWisINCORRECT:


Yes I added Rivers because what is happening in Bayelsa is synonymous to what is happening in Rivers.

Amaechi built Songhai Farms in Ogoni, they protested that he should have built a University.

Instead of them to take the Banana plantation seriously, they'd rather pick up arms and follow Solomon Ndigbara, unleashing terror on eachother.

Amaechi also built a fish farm in Buguma, instead of them to take it seriously and churn out pisces, they'd rather pick up arms and follow Soboma George.

Why??