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Nigerian Youth by Nobody: 5:27am On Jun 03, 2016 |
My Dear Nigerian Youths", by Prof. Isa.
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.
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
(Facebook).
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 Yar'adua (23).
It brought in Yakubu Gowon as Head of State at 32
and Olusegun 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 those 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 be used and discarded
like a used ballot paper. Who keeps a used ballot
paper anyway? That |
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