Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,156,816 members, 7,831,657 topics. Date: Saturday, 18 May 2024 at 12:00 AM

Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka - Politics - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka (1323 Views)

A Passionate Plea To Arewa Youths From An Igbo Man / A Word From Wole Shoyinka / Youths From Jibrin's Constituency Protest At NASS, Call For His Prosecution (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply) (Go Down)

Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Clinton594(m): 2:56am On Feb 13, 2016
WAKE UP NIGERIAN YOUTHS!

Where did we go wrong? Awolowo was 37 years, Akintola 36, Ahmadu Bello 36, Balewa 34, Okotie-Eboh 27 and Enahoro 27 and they led the struggle for Nigeria Independence after the death of Macaulay. Only Zik was 42 at the time!
In 1966, the first military coup was led by K Nzeogwu who was 29 years and countered by M. Mohammed 28, T. Danjuma 28, I. Babangida 25, J. Garba 23, Sani Abacha 23, and M. Yar'adua 23, and brought into power Y. Gowon 32, Ojukwu 33, Obasanjo 29, and Buhari 24!
Most of the military governors who governed the states under the successive military regimes were under 30 years.
Also, the brief democratic dispensation which interjected the military interregnums also saw some Senators and members of the House of Representatives, in particular, populated by persons under 30!
Under 30's were also not in short supply with appointments - we have examples of MT Mbu who became Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister at 23 and Pat Utomi who became a Federal Adviser at 27 and so on and so forth!

Now the question is this;
Why is it that almost all this age bracket is today still sleeping in 3-seater chairs in their parents’ homes?
Why is it that this age bracket is today still collecting pocket money from their parents?
Why is it that this age bracket is today still writing JAMB?
Why is it that this age bracket today still 'sagg' their trousers?
Why is it that this age bracket is today still searching for jobs and not yet married?
Why is it that this age bracket is today no longer qualified to even be leaders of youth wings of political parties?
Why is it that this age bracket is today so docile?
Why is this age bracket today incapable of feeding itself?
Why is it that this age bracket is today barred from even aspiring to certain political offices?
Why is it that this age bracket is today incapacitated, unwilling, unable and incapable of asking questions?
Why? Where did we go wrong? Wake up Nigerian youths!

GOD BLESS NIGERIA!
By Prof. Wole Soyinka.

Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by sam4(m): 3:02am On Feb 13, 2016
.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Applaner: 3:27am On Feb 13, 2016
Sir, the present Nigerian youths aren't sleeping actually......

.






















Rather, they are busy jumping from one woman to another.

1 Like

Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by minasota(f): 3:53am On Feb 13, 2016
First of all, no thanks to Wole Soyinka.! cultism
is becoming so rampant these days,You'r responsible for the death of many promising vibrant youths and it is still claiming more lives.
Honestly this man called soyinka has brought death to our land in place of development. He really needs (now he is still alive) to denounce and condemn his membership in order to save naive souls.

1 Like

Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by mrphysics(m): 3:59am On Feb 13, 2016
minasota:
First of all, no thanks to Wole Soyinka.! cultism
is becoming so rampant these days,

Isn't soyinka the one that started cultism??

This man is two edged sword. A spinor in physics, sometimes he spins up and the next time you will see him spin down. Maybe because of ethnic background and history.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by minasota(f): 4:10am On Feb 13, 2016
mrphysics:


Isn't soyinka the one that started cultism??

This man is two edged sword. A spinor in physics, sometimes he spins up and the next time you will see him spin down. Maybe because of ethnic background and history.
Only fools take
Wole seriously.He is just a local champion, He's secret cult group(Pyrates)has lead to murdering of thousands of youths.
Wole will be in prison when I am President,
that's a guarantee.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Ugonnax: 4:12am On Feb 13, 2016
mrphysics:


Isn't soyinka the one that started cultism??

This man is two edged sword. A spinor in physics, sometimes he spins up and the next time you will see him spin down. Maybe because of ethnic background and history.
Of course he is yoruba like Awolowo...changes color like chameleon depending on the tone of the song.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by chriskosherbal(m): 4:54am On Feb 13, 2016
Please let's leave the youth alone, the youth are not the cause of our problems.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by orisa37: 5:24am On Feb 13, 2016
Good questions. Either their parents , are dead and the remaining ones are crooks and selfish. My observation is that the youths are confused, don't know how to proceed and are becoming selfishly stagnant.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by tinkinjow: 5:32am On Feb 13, 2016
The general answer is in dislocated federal structure.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Sibrah: 5:58am On Feb 13, 2016
You mean they all achieved those feat without some sort of secret attached? Stop being a cheap propagandist uncle Wole.
Youth of today are ignoring the place of the spirit man in true success, but whose fault is it?
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by WafiGuy: 6:09am On Feb 13, 2016
The state of Nigerian youths is well captured by the few responses to Kongi's wake-up call, lack of thinking capacity. Their thinking capacities weakened by successive governments poor education policy implementation. It will take more than this type of call for them to wake up.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Clinton594(m): 7:16am On Feb 13, 2016
[size=13pt]Why are we blaming this man, the Nigerian youths have attained the height where we can stand up for our selves, in every nonsense these is always a sense[/size]
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Clinton594(m): 7:21am On Feb 13, 2016
minasota:
Only fools take
Wole seriously.He is just a local champion, He's secret cult group(Pyrates)has lead to murdering of thousands of youths.
Wole will be in prison when I am President,
that's a guarantee.

Forget about what he did In the past, we are in the present.
The man has a little sense in the so called nonsense
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by Volksfuhrer(m): 7:34am On Feb 13, 2016
WafiGuy:
The state of Nigerian youths is well captured by the few responses to Kongi's wake-up call, lack of thinking capacity. Their thinking capacities weakened by successive governments poor education policy implementation. It will take more than this type of call for them to wake up.

Some of the responses are as clueless and insipid as the youths described by the Nobel laureate. It's very sad.
Re: Wake Up Nigerian Youths! From Wole Soyinka by dearsly(m): 7:38am On Feb 13, 2016
Wake up soyinka n bring back Rivers money spent on dinner 4 ya!

Tnk u 4 ya information....but pls return d cash

(1) (Reply)

Rivers Rerun: Governor Fayose Blasts Apc-led Government / DSS Arrests Jones Abiri On Allegations He’s A Militant / Ben Bruce: Time To Revisit Redenomination Of The Naira

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 19
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.