My dear Nigerian Youth,
I am very angry and that is why I am addressing
you. You are the source of my anger and I want
to vent my spleen- maybe not at you directly- but
at the arrogance of your ignorance. Of all nations
of the world, you are to be most pitied. Do you
still wonder what you have done?
You don’t have an Ivy League education but with
the little below-standard education you got, all
you could do with it is to write a petition against
someone with the benefit of an Ivy League
education. You can’t even run your personal
economy as you’re almost always and perpetually
broke yet you arrogate to yourself superior
knowledge about the nation’s economy.
You sit in front of a computer and rant all day
through social media but with every click, you
make money- not for yourself- but for Mark
Zuckerberg. With every megabyte of data you
spend complaining and maligning, you make
stupendous bucks for Etisalat, Glo and Airtel.
Over the next two years, the number of Nigerian
millionaires will jump by 47% but most likely you
will not be among because you are too busy
whining and complaining. And yet about 60% of
Nigeria’s 170m population are below 35 years.
Oh, what a waste!
By the way, Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he
started facebook. Africa’s youngest billionaire,
Ashish Thakkar, is 31. He escaped from the
Rwandan genocide and relocated to Uganda
where he started an IT business. Collin Thornton,
who made his millions by fixing bad computers
and setting up Dial-a-Nerd, is 35. Adam
Horowitz, an 18-year-old entrepreneur, started 30
websites in 3 years before he became successful.
The only thing you have ever started is an online
petition. Have you heard of Jason Njoku? He’s 33
and the founder of Iroko TV. He received $8m
investment into his company just a few years
ago. What he does? Sharing the same Nollywood
films that you spend hours to watch online. He
didn’t just hang around waiting for Buhari to
make something happen or blaming Jonathan for
not making anything happen.
Kamal Budhabhatti was deported from Kenya but
while on the flight, he thought of the
opportunities in Kenya. He found his way back
after 6 months and today his company is valued
at $30m. He’s 36. Have you heard of Chinedu
Echeruo? Apple just paid $1b for his app. He’s a
Nigerian like you and all he did was attempt to fix
a problem.
But for you, the only thing you attempt to fix are
your nails- and your hairdo! Chinedu moved to
New York in 1995 and found it difficult to
navigate the city with ease so he developed
HopStop to fix the problem. Stop listing all the
problems- we know them already but what are
you doing about them?
Awolowo was 37, Akintola was 36, Ahmadu Bello
was 36, Tafawa Balewa was 34, Okotie-Eboh was
27 and Enahoro was 27 at the time of
independence of Nigeria. In 1966, the first coup
was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (29) and stopped by
Murtala Mohammed (28), TY Danjuma (28), IBB
(25), Sanni Abacha (23) and Shehu Yaradua (23).
It brought in Yakubu Gowon as Head of State at
32 and Obasanjo at 29. You are in your 40s and
you still sag your trousers.
Of course you know Linda Ikeji. You’ve spent
hundreds of hours on her blog laughing and
commenting while she smiles her way to the
bank. She’s just built a house for her father in the
village- just by you clicking on her gossip and
sharing. Your day is not complete without a stop
by at her blog. She was as broke as you are but
she turned a hobby into a business. Are you that
void of understanding?
You think the politicians have any regard for you?
That is why I referred to the arrogance of your
ignorance at the beginning of this diatribe. You
have a false estimation of yourself. You have an
over bloated ego. You are only as good as an
election ticket- pure and simple.
You are only good to used and discarded like a
used ballot paper. Who keeps a used ballot paper
anyway? That is why they only remember you
every four years. You are like a menstrual pad
that is only useful during the menstrual period.
Are you hurt? Okay, let me help you. Have you
heard of Prof Olusola Adeyeye before?
He is a Senator of the Federal Republic at the
moment. But before he became a senator, he was
popular on facebook. Even more popular than so
many latter day facebookivists. I was one of his
many followers. He put up posts after posts and
pander to populist thinking. Then he was elected
and one of the first things he did was to
deactivate his facebook account. Yes, you read
me right. Deactivate. How many times do you still
see El-Rufai’s tweets? No longer regular? That is
how it will dwindle until he disappears totally. I’m
not limiting it to the aforementioned alone and
this is not about any party. They are all the
same.
Yet you falsely believe your future is in the hands
of one politician. You will grow grey hair with that
belief. And by the time you wise up, you’re on
your way to the grave- not with a life expectancy
of less than 60 years in this clime. Can you see
you have wasted your time? And possibly your
life? See, people have been complaining since
independence. And they will still complain in 4
years. Will you be among them?
I agree with my friend who said Nigerian youth
need mental detoxification. And maybe I should
add that you need a brain transplant. Let me give
you another example. I’ve watched you try to pull
some people down when you don’t like their face-
or their comments. You report them to facebook.
And they get pulled down. Momentarily. Just
momentarily.
Do you know why? Facebook knows those people
draw traffic. Their posts get huge numbers of
comments. And with every comment and click,
someone is making money. Will you allow your
best customers to leave? That is why though
facebook pulled down Adeyinka Grandson’s page,
he was given a facebook fan page in return. Yes,
a fan page. You need to get a job and you need
to get a life. There is life away from facebook or
social media.
If you’re not making money from social media
and you sleep on it, you’re merely existing- you’re
not living. I have seen some of you take selfies
and pose in all manner of ways as you paste your
photos on social media. Are you a photographer
or are you selling something that we don’t know?
You’re unemployed because you’re unemployable.
You don’t have skills. Sorry, the major skill you
have is that of pointing out the problems and
debating about them. That’s a no brainer! You
can’t even diagnose the problems properly.
You think Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala is your problem?
You are a self-inflicted problem. You are afflicted
with yourself and by yourself. If you’re looking for
the reason why you are the way you are- look no
further than your mirror. Instead of occupying
Nigeria, you should occupy your brain. The only
witch chasing you from your village is you. It’s
time to stop bewitching yourself.
Stop whining about lack of electricity or fuel. Do
something about it. Every adversity has a seed of
opportunity embedded in it. Create something.
Invent something. Start something. Read up a
book. Write a book. Take advantage of the
present situation. Nigeria is a huge market.
Nigeria is a virgin market. Waiting for you.
Unleash yourself. Release your passion. Follow
your potential. Invent your way to prosperity.
Stop waiting for government- government only
needs you when they need your taxes. Don’t
depend on welfare. People who depend on welfare
don’t fare well.
You think you lack capital? No, the problem is not
lack of capital but lack of ideas. Just today, two
men stepped into my wife’s office selling the new
portraits of Buhari and Osinbajo. That’s someone
grabbing an opportunity and seizing the moment.
I have a friend who started out by offering after-
school lessons to kids on her street- now she has
a school.
I know a lady who was indigent and self-
sponsored on campus. Each night, she soaked
beans and made ‘moin-moin’ in the morning for
sale on campus. I bought out of the moin moin
as well as some other students and that was how
she paid her way through University. Not
prostitution. Have you heard of Ayodeji Megbope?
She started her business with the last N1,000 she
had on her by making moin moin. She is the CEO
of No Leftovers.
I have shared the story of ‘Akara Ayo’ and invited
him to talk to us before. He left his banking job
to start a business frying Akara (bean cake) in
Ibadan. And added some innovation to it.
Start a snail farm. You can start it with less than
N100,000. I started it with nothing- I just picked
up snails in my compound and raised them. In a
couple of months, I had raised close to a
thousand. You have a car and you are
complaining you don’t have a job? Convert it for
car hire. Take it to the airports and see how
people will hire it for the day. Liase with good
hotels and place it at their disposal. I met a
young man in Calabar who charges N1,500 per
hour for the use of his car. There is something in
your hand that can give you the future you want.
The best moment to start is now.
For God’s sake, just do something!
NB: This is just an article to stir up and challenge
people and it’s intention is not derogatory in any
form.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/angry-
letter-to-the-nigerian-youth

Please give this guy an award...





Apparently Seun hasn't made enough money to be on the list..

what is d point can't read this long bullsh1t cos no phcn

On a related topic,
We keep blaming the govt. for corruption as if their members fell from the sky. They are one of us. As if we wouldn't do the same if we were there.
Any time as a student, you cheat during exams....

whenever as a lecturer, you demand money or sex from students....

Whenever as a policeman you involve in bribery....

Anytime you, as a govt official employ an idiot just because you are related.....

......just tell yourself that you are the problem of this country.

taxi drivers who swindle, lawyers and newsreporters who lie, religous fanatics etc
you all are no different from Abacha and co. The only difference is that you dont have the power to do worse.

chei, this guy has insulted me the way I have never been insulted in my life, what pains me most about the insult is the fact that the guy is saying the truth... ohmyGod, i yaf vex., no more NL for me again