If you cannot stand the bitter truth, then better stop reading here, because you will get angry and shorten your lifespan by the truth I am about to reveal here.

But if, like Shehu Usman Dan Fodio, you know that conscience is an open wound that only truth can heal, then read on.

I decided to write you this open letter after seeing multiple Northern youths jumping into sewers and gutters to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.

Ask yourselves what are you celebrating. Under Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is the world headquarters for extreme poverty.

Not poverty, but extreme poverty.

In Kenya, when Uhuru Kenyatta was re-elected, Kenyan youths trended on Twitter for celebrating with nyama choma (Kenya’s version of Suya). But here you are celebrating by jumping into gutters and sewers.

Prepare to get angry by what I am about to say: Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s biggest sin against the power elite of the core North, was his determination to educate Almajiris. People like Muhammadu Buhari and Nasir El-Rufai feared that if Jonathan succeeded in educating the almajiri youth, they would lose their army of gullible youths, like those now jumping into gutters to celebrate Buhari’s reelection.

Let me pause for a while for the truth to sink in, for you to get angry, and then for you to insult me and my lineage.

In case you do not know, there are 12 million children and youths in Northern Nigeria who do not go to school. Those youths are poor.

Extremely poor. The ONLY way they can escape from poverty is via education. That is why former President Goodluck Jonathan built 165 almajiri schools and nine new universities in the North.

You are celebrating Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election. You claim he is your champion. Now let me ask you this question: How many schools has Buhari built for you in Northern Nigeria? Not one. Not even ONE. Do not accept my word. Go and investigate. I deal in facts, not fiction. Facts!

In the last four years, one man, Bishop David Oyedepo, has built more schools than the Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government of Nigeria. Again, do not take my word for it. Go and investigate what I have just written above.

Are you aware that while he was President, Goodluck Jonathan’s children ALL schooled in Nigeria?

Compare that to President Buhari. ALL Muhammadu Buhari’s children schooled abroad.

Muhammadu Buhari knows the value of education, so he educated his own children. He also knows the political value of illiteracy, so he leaves your own Northern children uneducated. I know what I am saying is annoying you. I know if you see me, you will stone me. But I know that you also know that it is the truth.

That is why it is bitter.

Other than your value as pawns to getting him to power, what other value do you have for Buhari? The Lagos-Kano rail was revived by Jonathan, not Buhari. The Abuja-Kaduna fast railway was built by Jonathan (although conceived by Obasanjo), not Buhari. The only federal university in Buhari’s state of Katsina was built by Jonathan.

You claim he is fighting corruption.

Atiku Abubakar has known businesses. He employs over 40,000 Nigerians and yet you call him w thief. Bola Tinubu does not own any known business. Yet money moves into his house in bullion vans. Have you heard that EFCC went to his house, or arrested his people?

Before your very eyes, Buhari, who is fighting corruption, raised the hand of Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano and asked you to vote for him. Have you not seen Ganduje’s video? The man is a common thief. He is a barawo. But that is the man your corruption loving Buhari wants you to vote for.

Other than the mental feeling of superiority that you have over Yan Kudu by having Muhammadu Buhari as President, what tangible benefit has his Presidency brought for you?

In Zamfara, Governor Abdulaziz Yari confesses that insecurity is worse now, than under Jonathan. The other day, Governor Kashim Shettima went to Aso Rock to cry about the worsening state of insecurity in Borno.

All these are happening and you are there celebrating by jumping into gutter and sewers. And when one Yan Kudu points out the truth to you mutanen Arewa, you start vibrating in anger.

I have read The al-Quran. The very first verse in the Quran highlights the importance of education by asking you to read and recite the Message. In Islam, the acquisition of knowledge is among the most important and sacred duties for every individual.

The numbers the whole world is now using (1 to 10) are of Islamic/Arabic heritage. The oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world is the University of Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco by Islamic scholars. Islam is conducive to education. It is left to you my Northern brothers to decide if Muhammadu Buhari is conducive to education

Why the long piece, OP? Their heads have turned upside down already as you can see. They say in 2013 , it would be our turn to produce president abi? The tribe one shouldn't pitch a tent with in Nigeria is fulani. If they say go, they actually mean come . By the end of 2020, you'd see what would happen. Somebody somewhere amongst them would form a new party and they'd scatter the apc and make a sudden switch, just the way they switched from the pdp to apc because of Buhari. They believed it's only him who can orchestrate the so called northern agenda successfully but they're right, given his antecedents. Those military personnel recently retired compulsorily were mainly from the south whilst he retained those from the north in the army. They'd say in 2023 zoning that it was the APC's agenda and not theirs( i.e. the new party's) Tinubu go cry e no go see tears for face . What annoys me the most is the fact that our youths are so gullible. They thread the path of ethnicity and religion in expressing their civic duties. An average fulani cart pusher is more informed and United than most of our youths. Mark today's date. The north would shock many ahead of 2023. Haven't they been doing so since Awo days? Mtcheew!

Search more on Tinubu businesses, more 50k peoples are benefiting more than your Atiku Presidential aspirant 2019 lost to Incubent President PMB

Unemployment and underemployment is seriously confronting the Nigerian youth in all ramifications. The increase in population of Nigerians is one of the challenges facing the labour market which the government on its part failed to provide full employment to its citizenry. Many Nigerians today are underemployed despite their intimidating credentials being possessed in high flying institutions in the world together with economic recession and inconsistent policies in the country.
It is unfortunate that Nigeria has been unable to resolve the employment debacle that has been undermining the well-being of many Nigerians for a number of years now. More depressing, still, is the fact that many youths have remained stranded outside the vortex of the nation’s economy. This situation portends disaster for any nation. No country can expect peace and progress when its youths are kept idle, angry and unfulfilled. It is a recipe for social unrest and disaster. The percentage of unemployed Nigerians is likely much higher than we have been told, and the number of youths that are unable to find jobs has already reached dangerous heights. Apart from the unemployed, Nigeria also has a high percentage of the underemployed – that is, those whose income, are so low that they cannot afford the basic necessities of life such as food, clothing and shelter.
Excerpt from Population and its Impact on Level of Unemployment in Least Developed Countries: An Appraisal of the Nigerian Economy by Imoisi Anthony Ilegbinosa, OlatunjiLekan Moses and Ubi-AbaiItoro Praise.
The overall tone and the statistics of this entire research article is ominous and truth be told, overwhelmingly scary for youths of Nigeria. At first, I stared at the topic, Unemployment and Population growth and wondered what affected what; this was before I added the ‘students’ to the topic.
My mind swirled as to how to write this topic lightly and still give out sound advice as it concerned unemployment and population growth to the students. Because, let’s face it, ominous materials aren’t really fun to read and the message is lost when people generally scroll away from reading the depressing statistics.
Despite the above excerpt postulating on the Impact of Population on the Level of Unemployment, I reasoned that it could also be vice versa – ‘The impact of Unemployment on Population Growth’.
Like I mentioned before, I aim to write this article quite lightly and you might laugh when I present the evidence of unemployment affecting population growth, but it is the salient truth.
As a graduate of Sociology and Anthropology and having lived in urban and rural areas, I have studied and noticed that idleness which results in abject boredom pushes individuals into the cheapest form of fun activity – sex. And sex we know, especially when done unprotected, which might be the case among unemployed individuals, of course will lead to population growth when a child results from it.
The direction of this article isn’t actually salient here; whether population affects unemployment or unemployment affects population, it isn’t important, we are already aware both variables affect themselves. What is important in this article is the way forward.
I have realized about myself, I detest standing around and flogging a problem. So there is unemployment and population growth problem, what is the point writing material after material of papers quoting statistics all over the place? I would rather we find a solution, especially one barring the involvement of government.
Which brings me to the final year students; apart from the topic of unemployment and the problem of population growth making a good final year project topic (find project topics here), what are your plans as you graduate? Are you planning to augment the number of the earlier unemployed youths by doing nothing?
I suggest you rather learn from their mistakes. The government will make noises about the problem of unemployment and might even cough about population growth, but it is left to us to make something of ourselves.
And that brings me to marketable skills; the lectures and certificate from the University is all well and good, but it doesn’t magically result in skills when needed. From my experience as an unemployed youth, I plead with final year students to seek out a skill they are good at and be trained on it; it is the only practical solution I foresee for the problem of unemployment.
As for the problem of population growth, I really have no idea about that. I’m not sure anybody can stop Nigerians from having sex or giving birth, those things are almost like favorite past times in this country. But if it could be attempted, then the government could ask for advice from the government of China, they seem to have an ongoing process as to how to curb the issue of population growth.