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Truth234:
Leadership is earned not given, the youths of this generation want leadership on a platter of gold. That is what is wrong, Ojukwu took on a war that will forever define him and in fact spring forth current struggle of the IPOB youths when he was only 33 years. Gowon became president at 32 and ruled for 9 years, Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart at age of 28, Awolowo, Babangida, Azik, Nkrumah of Ghana, Thomas Sankara etc have three things this generation don't. Hope, Dream and high sense of responsibility. A lot of them, good or bad, were so convinced in their cause they were ready and prepared to die for it. What we have now are social media warriors, fools without direction or passion for a tangible cause. If I was a leader I won't hand them leadership either.

Lol, those were very different times. Ojukwu Nigeria army at age 24 after schooling abroad he was promoted every 2years till he got to the top in less than 10 years today such is impossible. Google Lauritta Onye 32, Olympic gold medalist, world record breaker but poverty stricken regardless she has nothing no car no house nothing, if after all these no headway what are we saying? she said she rather be a truck pusher than represent nigeria again. Myself, i'm under 21, I like writing and for long now I've been looking for book deals up and down nobody knows what it is here so I wanted to do it abroad but it's expensive so I shelved the idea for now till I travel, I wanted to start a farm as well my people told me I should finish school first (i'm doing one of these 7 year courses I've gone far sha)
My friend a photographer has too many competition
My lecturers who are old almost half of them lectured my dad when he attended the same uni they tell us that inn their time before,during and after the biafran war that they had multiple opportunities you could be a civil servant with secondary school cert all of them got scholarships abroad from govmt upon finishing their first degrees and one even told us how 6 companies including our school offered him job and he had to chose we today do not have such luxury sir. In my 500 level now sir we are 200 students in lvl 400 they are 250+ in 300 they are 300+ in 200 they are 300 in year 1 the same thing so sir I do not believe those times are same as today we today are facing peculiar challenges coupled with the fact that technology is taking our jobs.
In the past you couldn't find lawyers as secretaries or clerks or musicians or public speakers or photographers today it is the norm I saw an advert a year ago that read lawyer needed with sound computer skill and a bias for legal drafting 20,000 per month in my father's house today I get 35k monthly + 50k christmas bonus and 150k at the beginning or end of each year how much more a married man with a kid what will 20k do and some don't get paid at all just experience and books while they work for free
And mind you lecturers are something else in a certain faculty in my school a certain lecturer likes tall girls and my bae that year was tall and fine she had to remain incognito and bribe her way through if not. Nigeria was messed up before we were born our elders messed it up for us we are only managing to survive, how can we prove ourselves without being given a chance. Do you want the youths to revolt? Cos that's the only way out.