THE COMING GENERATION SCARES ME...REAL HARD! While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old undergrad of University of Port- Harcourt. Shagari was 54 years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was 17. Yemi Osinbajo was 22. The generation of the likes of Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo, Ifeanyi Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Garba Nadama, Awal Ibrahim and so on has gone for good! Some of us in our 40s and 50s, when in school, either in the university or secondary school, had lofty dreams, both personal and societal. We were always motivated by nationalists and inventors who had impacted positively on the cause of humanity. We were voracious readers of novels and other books. Nelkon for our Ordinary Level Physics, Lambert for Chemistry, B.O ADELEKE and Goh Cheng Leong for our Geography, Phebean Ogundipe for Practical English and others like that. We were always flaunting our knowledge of current affairs. Inter-school quiz competition was the in- thing. Fast forward 35 years on and you are shocked and disturbed. Have you ever spoken to or engaged a 20 year-old boy? Ask him what motivates him and he is likely to mention music, hip hop to be precise. He has hundreds of downloaded songs on his phone. He can sing all of them off hand. He know all the singles of 9ice, Neato C, Timaya, Davido, Whiz Kid off hand. But he does not know anything about history of nationalism in the country. Ideas about good society, responsible family and good conduct do not motivate him. He just wants to make money because his friend who does yahoo is rich and rides a good car, an SUV! The things that interest him are things that do not add value. He has google but never uses it for advancement of knowledge but to download porn and other inanities. Yet, in TWENTY years time, they are the ones that will be contesting to become governors, senators, Reps members and even president. They belong to a generation that does not care about morality. They belong to a generation that is motivated only by money and its acquisition. By 2035 to 2040, they will be our senators, Reps, governors and so on. I wonder if we have ever spared a thought how this country will look like under them. I told a man recently and these are my words: IF A GUY WHO IS IN LAGOS COULD USE FALSE PRETENCE TO OBTAIN $20,000 FROM SOMEONE IN UNITED STATES, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF SUCH A GUY BECOMES A STATE GOVERNOR AND IS IN CHARGE OF AN ALLOCATION HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE TO OBTAIN UNDER FALSE PRETENCE? WHICH HIS STATE IS STATUTORILY ENTITLED TO. I am worried, deeply worried. Are you? ......... If you are and I am, it means we must intensify our efforts on the field of the Great Commission. The Bible says that the harvest is plenteous but the labourers are few. May God strengthen us as individuals to rise to the occasion of safe-guarding the future of this great nation - Nigeria.

Sure
I share in your concern.
In the midst of everyday hustle and bustle, I found out something sublime. The present world system is gradually getting structured in such a way that parents no longer have time to oversee their kids. For most of them, the main achievement is to make more money to be able to afford the best school, but in the process of making more money, the basic needs of the child is neglected.

Also, I noticed that smartphones are making people more dumb. In the beginning, for instance before you could save or view a pic, you have to know the directory but now most young people don't even know how the computer or phone system is structured, they just point and click.

But then I would also blame our fathers. We have the Mandelas, Lincoln, Gandhi. Name one top Nigerian that you can tell your son, study him and be like him. A wicked, self-serving generation of the 70s has given birth to the rudderless 21st Century generation

No matter how bad we are, we can't be as destructive as the preceding generation. As the average 40 year old and he will start listing all the problems he has and then attribute them to "corrupt people" and generational curse.



If the foundation is destroyed, what can a nigga do?

if you are worried about Nigeria wat will you say about the USA

"We will turn out all right "

This is so so true, however it's not just in Nigeria, it's global. In the UK there are graduates here who can hardly put together a correct sentenence. It seems people are just getting dumber all around and I blame the internet to a large degree. When we were growing up and there as no internet, we enriched our minds by reading books. We would read anything we could lay our hands on, but now kids can spend a whole day on Facebook and other social media sites, doing nothing of value

What scares me more are the current products of baby factory, the ones orphaned by Boko Haram, the siblings of Boko Haram, etc. These people, coupled with the millions of half baked graduates we are producing, are making me fear for my old age.