In recent times, I have observed that Nigerian youths are becoming more and more lazy! They graduate from school and hope to work in Shell or Zenith Bank and unfortunately since it doesn't seem to happen they now redirect their frustration by sitting behind the computer or type with their expensive phones and tablets on social media how things are bad in the country. Why did you go to school? Why not still be productive without the white collar job? In some courses, you can start off on your own without a paid employment.

It is rather usual that these group of people only consume without producing anything. They consume two cups of garri without planting one stem of cassava, they also sit in drinking parlours with pocket monies given to them by their benevolent Uncle and Aunty to eat chicken they do not even know how to raise and drink beer every evening. Go to beer parlours in the evening you see them there drinking and eating as if they are productive.

Today people complain about the price of tomatoes and blame it on President Buhari and I want to ask, is President Buhari the tomato farmer in this country? A lot of youths do not even care to ask why the price of tomatoes is high while that of onions is low? These are people with no reasoning because the smart youths instead of complaining are taking advantage of the situation to plant tomatoes while the lazy ones are on Facebook abusing President Buhari.

Wake up Nigerian youths, things are not working too well yes first of all because the oil price is low and Nigeria is not making so much profit selling oil at the current oil price, secondly the Niger Delta Avengers are worsening the situation by crumbling the little economy through vandalisation of oil pipelines and electricity installations which a section of the country are applauding. When did we get this wicked to support evil elments in their desteuction of properties?

You can be productive still, putting the blame on President Buhari for EVERYTHING shows laziness and lack of knowledge amd wisdom. Even in this economy people are still making money, good money!

If you are hungry and have a land but yet you don't farm, then you have yourself to blame and NOT President Buhari. How many Nigerian youths are raising chicken today? Very few.

Let the Youths of this country be productive and stop blaming the President for everything.

The picture of Spain playing with tomatoes is the result of HARDWORK. Most Nigerian youths are used to earning money without working. Things have changed, you now have to start working to make money. No more share the money.

I will like to borrow this post from a nairalander in another post:

This is what u get when a people prefer opening drinking bars to processing garri

When people prefer building hotels to greenhouses

When people prefer build estates than building factory to produce fruit concentrate

Nigerians una never see anything!

Thank you!

Will this make front page?

Hmmm ask dem.

Good piece bro

Interesting









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Too long but your head is there...

This article is a nono.
You are blaming the symptom and not the problem.
NIGERIANS.

thomasthomas:
When I read comments from people like you I see why Akwa Ibom will never grow beyond road construction and painting of primary schools. You said 'government does not have any business doing business', please let me ask, 'why did Akpabio build Cinema in Uyo and for what purpose? The five star 15 storey hotel in Uyo and 3 star 12 storey hotel in Ikot Ekpene is for what? Are those not government businesses?

You talked about government recouping monies invested in a company in 5 - 10years, now let me ask you, 'how many years will it take the government to recoup the money invested in the 'first in Africa' stadium that nobody knows the contract sum.

At times we want to bamboozle others with talk. If Akpabio invested the same amount of money he invested in the stadium, tropicana and those hotels to revamp those ailing industries Akwa Ibom youths would have been gainfully employed.

For your information, Akwa Ibom is one of the worst hit states with unemployment, go check out the facts but ironically, it receives the highest allocation in the country.

Akpabio's achievement is just media hype, with over one trillion naira in eight years, you have just few dualised roads, few primary school renovation, and few urban roads, yet you say he has done excellently well.

The problem I have with people like you is that you do not know how to quantify money. If I may ask, do you know what 500million or 1bn can do in terms of infrastructure?

Kindly publish his budget from 2007 - 2015, lets do a thorough check with what is on ground.

I'm not a fan of a cluesless, greedy, trickster and election rigger.

You can make him your role model!

I can not believe that somebody that said this would still come up to open a topic to abuse Nigerian youths in defence of his master. It is government job to provide jobs for its people. Buhari is not doing well. I hate it when people blame the youths for the problem they know nothing about. The company I work with advertised for job and I was surprised to see people that turned up. 78 people came for the interview while we needed 7 persons. The youths didn't start blaming government for unemployment under Buhari's regime, it has always been the tradition; and I enjoin you to absorb the heat.

Checked86:
I can not believe that somebody that said this would still come up to open a topic to abuse Nigerian youths in defence of his master. It is government job to provide jobs for its people. Buhari is not doing well. I hate it when people blame the youths for the problem they know nothing about. The company I work with advertised for job and I was surprised to see people that turned up. 78 people came for the interview while we needed 7 persons. The youths didn't start blaming government for unemployment under Buhari's regime, it has always been the tradition; and I enjoin you to absorb the heat.

In that argument, there was a context, there's no point trying to take things out of context.

I mentioned in the article that if one cannot get a job from government, Shell or Zenith Bank, you still need to be productive. Of course government has the responsible to provide jobs for her people but you still need to be productive rather than subscribe MB to go online and wail!

Government can't provide ALL the jobs, so one needs to be productive. The artisan: welders, carpenters are feeding themselves while graduates are updating pictures on Facebook and Instagram and crying for lack of job.

Argue within the context!

Jaymaxxy:
Good piece bro

Thank you...

We need to tell ourselves the truth at times...

Checked86:
I can not believe that somebody that said this would still come up to open a topic to abuse Nigerian youths in defence of his master. It is government job to provide jobs for its people. Buhari is not doing well. I hate it when people blame the youths for the problem they know nothing about. The company I work with advertised for job and I was surprised to see people that turned up. 78 people came for the interview while we needed 7 persons. The youths didn't start blaming government for unemployment under Buhari's regime, it has always been the tradition; and I enjoin you to absorb the heat.

@checked86 it's true that government should provided job to the people, an ideally 15% is the max in any conducive environment. unfortunately this is not the case in nija. but as the author said no matter the situation hardworking ppl do find a niche and make good money and the reality is bitching about this government ain't gonna change a thing. but hard work does

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The Agric sector is promising. #Tomato

Metallurgist:
@checked86 it's true that government should provided job to the people, an ideally 15% is the max in any conducive environment. unfortunately this is not the case in nija. but as the author said no matter the situation hardworking ppl do find a niche and make good money and the reality is bitching about this government ain't gonna change a thing. but hard work does

I unearth his previous comment because the OP wanted to exonerate Buhari and his government. In his comment as I quoted, he complained about Akpkabio (then state governor) for not providing employment for the Akwa ibomites. If he could blame state government for unemployment, nothing stops him from blaming the government. BTW, the youths I see everyday are not lazy. We always say the youths to hide from providing facts. Look at your friends and tell me that none of them is not striving to survive. I have seen many young people, both girls and boys, going extra mile to earn a living. Government should provide a level playing ground by making power a bit stable so you will see the magical youths.

Checked86:
I unearth his previous comment because the OP wanted to exonerate Buhari and his government. In his comment as I quoted, he complained about Akpkabio (then state governor) for not providing employment for the Akwa ibomites. If he could blame state government for unemployment, nothing stops him from blaming the government. BTW, the youths I see everyday are not lazy. We always say the youths to hide from providing facts. Look at your friends and tell me that none of them is not striving to survive. I have seen many young people, both girls and boys, going extra mile to earn a living. Government should provide a level playing ground by making power a bit stable so you will see the magical youths.

The so called magical youths are a tiny percentage. There are a lot of other business you don't really need light to do so waiting for constant power supply still amounts to the lazy attitude I am talking about.

No amount of stupidity is too much for those grown up men living under the roof of their sister/anty's husband.
Farm! farm! farm! how many graduate can afford land. The place I know as my village, a plot of land is not less than 400k, how many tomatoes i'm I going to plant on a plot of land, what is the value of a basket of tomatoes in a normal market? What has the govt done to encourage farmers and make farming interesting? One interesting thing about Nigerians is that as soon as they notice a particular occupation is lucrative, no b u go tel dem. Govt should make agric sector lucrative and watch how oil is relengated. All these guys blaming youths are those bunch of unproductive population of govt workers whose connections rather than competense land them their job. Why woundn't you type poo if at 42, you stay wit ur sister in her matrimonial home.

nigeriafilm:
No amount of stupidity is too much for those grown up men living under the roof of their sister/anty's husband.
Farm! farm! farm! how many graduate can afford land. The place I know as my village, a plot of land is not less than 400k, how many tomatoes i'm I going to plant on a plot of land, what is the value of a basket of tomatoes in a normal market? What has the govt done to encourage farmers and make farming interesting? One interesting thing about Nigerians is that as soon as they notice a particular occupation is lucrative, no b u go tel dem. Govt should make agric sector lucrative and watch how oil is relengated. All these guys blaming youths are those bunch of unproductive population of govt workers whose connections rather than competense land them their job. Why woundn't you type poo if at 42, you stay wit ur sister in her matrimonial home.

Hey, relax it's okay. When productivity is mentioned, it's not about farming and besides there are different forms of farming, livestock and crop farming. There are other productive things also not just farming.

Are you sure youths will want to farm? In Nigeria, we have thick bushes everywhere... You can also partner with someone in farming if land in your vilage is expensive. No amount of wailing will produce a result that's the whole summary anyway.

Checked86:
I can not believe that somebody that said this would still come up to open a topic to abuse Nigerian youths in defence of his master. It is government job to provide jobs for its people. Buhari is not doing well. I hate it when people blame the youths for the problem they know nothing about. The company I work with advertised for job and I was surprised to see people that turned up. 78 people came for the interview while we needed 7 persons. The youths didn't start blaming government for unemployment under Buhari's regime, it has always been the tradition; and I enjoin you to absorb the heat.

It is NOT government's job to provide jobs. It is their job to provide an enabling environment within which people can be gainfully employed, true. But more importantly, it is the "job" of every individual to find how s/he can add value to society, and thereby earn a living. This could be by pushing files in a ministry, or counting bills in a bank. If those jobs are unavailable however, the sensible individual should ask himself what value he's bringing to the table. Why should anyone part with money to select him (or his services) over millions of alternatives? If he can answer that question convincingly, you have a successful entrepreneur in the making, otherwise, the fault is 100% his.

Checked86:
I unearth his previous comment because the OP wanted to exonerate Buhari and his government. In his comment as I quoted, he complained about Akpkabio (then state governor) for not providing employment for the Akwa ibomites. If he could blame state government for unemployment, nothing stops him from blaming the government. BTW, the youths I see everyday are not lazy. We always say the youths to hide from providing facts. Look at your friends and tell me that none of them is not striving to survive. I have seen many young people, both girls and boys, going extra mile to earn a living. Government should provide a level playing ground by making power a bit stable so you will see the magical youths.

I think i understand the op differently. He is not exonorating the present gov't he is just saying if you have to wait for gov't you'll wait for a long time.
Also frm what you posted on his write-up on akpabio, its a different thing entirely.

We all know that its a fathers responsibility to educate his child.there are fathers that have not done it and yet the children found their way through sch. Gov't is supposed to provide portable water, since they did not are peopl not drilling borehole?
If everybody had to wait for gov't to provide them with what to do such pple would end up sad bitter and frustrated.

If you need to plant tomato,potato,cucumber(sack farming) or maize for a season borrow a friends land, a neighbours or a relatives. Used same people uncompleted building to do poultry. All this suggestions are part time from there you can discover you either had a passion for it or you'll appreciate those that take it as their full time job

OP its clear you were amongst those that went to see Osinbanjo recently...keep fooling your self

We are talking problems, insults, symptoms and blames. ARE WE NOT TIRED OF THIS CULTURE!? We need solutions. My recommendations may be unpopular or frowned at, but nevertheless I'll put them forward:

i. We need a CULTURAL REVOLUTION!

We need to change the way we think, speak and act. IPOB thinks they are sufferring in isolation and the Niger Delta thinks they are sufferring in isolation so they think it is them against Nigeria but they fail to realize the poverty, unemployment, crime, socio-economic inequality and exclusion do not have ethnic faces but are problems faced by us all. If we all took up arms, if we all started violent protests to fight for our selfish interests Nigeria would be a replica of Somalia today.
We need to change our orientation, we need to recognize we are in the same class (igbo, yoruba, hausa), we need to recognize our common problems, we need to recognize our common foes (the elite), we need to recognize the burden of the future and we need to recognize we must be the solution we seek.
Sensitization programs should be pursued via social media to promote selflessness, sincerity, solidarity, class consciousness, nationalism, anti-elitist interests, anti-political interests, communalism and godliness.
We need to stop focusing on the government irrespective of who is there in power and focus on what the youths can and must do to propel growth and development in every region of the country.

2. We need AN AVENUE FOR THE EXPRESSION OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS

Information as people say is power! But unfortunately we, youths, patronize rumours, gossips, propaganda and a media that has become the instrument of manipulation of the masses. We as youths need to bury ourselves in independent research; we need to create a forum for the dissemination of empirically verifiable and logically coherent information; we need a forum for the sharing of revolutionary ideas that would positively boost the economy, society and nation; we need to destroy sentiment once and for all and talk facts and reason and we need to make information accessible to all (the educated, less educated, rich and poor among us, youths).

I suggest to do this we need to create an online journal where formal research on new ideas, methods, principles and advances can be archived, reviewed and availed as the basis of decision making. In addition we need a media for a less formal discussion of our ideas and thoughts and i suggest a dedicated thread on nairaland for a CONSULTATIVE FORUM FOR REVOLUTIONARY YOUTHS (CONFRY).

3. We need to MAP OUT A STRATEGY

We need to clearly articulate what we want to achieve, the resources at our disposal, the limitations of our operational environment (legal, political and insititutional) and the opportunities that abound in our operational environment.
This strategy will birth a plan with time markers, instruments, operational targets and targets. We didnt go to school for nothing. We need to take the census of educated youths (we can do this via this forum). Afterwards we can classify them into well defined groups and assign tasks to them that would facilitate the creation of a strategy for national growth and development by the youths nationwide!

4. We need a SERIOUS, REVOLUTIONARY, PASSIONATE AND INGENIOUS COUNCIL OF LEADERS

Nigeria is a mess partly because one man leads a nation with over 250 ethnic groups. We need to be governed by a council. We need a council of youths representing the major ethnic groups in Nigeria. These youths must be selfless, revolutionary, outstanding thinkers, nationalistic and committed to the emancipation of this country from the shackles of its social, economic, institutional and political problems.

Ordinarily, this should be the initiative of the NANS but it appears the students are asleep as well.

The youths must wake up! Necessity they say is the mother of innovation...now that we face a crisis, we must prove to the world that we are not retrogressive, selfish and intellectually lazy youths. Youths started the revolution in Iran, a youth triggered the arab spring, Che Guvara was a revolutionary youth...We must strive to be enlisted in this hall of fame.

Our fathers have eaten sour grapes but our teeth need not be set on edge, because we can decide to brush our teeth if our fathers have failed to.

Now our slumber must cease...youths arise!

DaudaAbu:


I think i understand the op differently. He is not exonorating the present gov't he is just saying if you have to wait for gov't you'll wait for a long time.
Also frm what you posted on his write-up on akpabio, its a different thing entirely.

We all know that its a fathers responsibility to educate his child.there are fathers that have not done it and yet the children found their way through sch.
If everybody had to wait for gov't to provide them with what to do such pple would end up sad bitter and frustrated.

If you need to plant tomato,potato,cucumber(sack farming) or maize for a season borrow a friends land, a neighbours or a relatives. Used same people uncompleted building to do poultry. All this suggestions are part time from there you can discover you either had a passion for it or you'll appreciate those that take it as their full time job

I choose people I reply their quote; and you are one of those because you made a strong point enough to convince me otherwise. But No. while I support you partly for the fact that the initiatives to achieve something come from the youths, I still hold the government responsible for not doing enough for the youths. Enabling environment! enabling environment!! enabling environment!!! I am shouting these two words because that is the way to push the youths to contribute the development of this country while providing employment through entrepreneurship. Somebody quoted me because I used power(stable power) as an instance. There are many ways the government can provide enabling environment. We all did our one year compulsory service to our father land and you don't need anybody to tell you how small that 18k is. While many corps members couldn't save anything from the Allowee during our time, some of us that did save saved just enough to start trading(buying and selling). This is not entrepreneurship. If government can increase the minimum wage to at least 38k or so, I assure you it will be few ingrate that will still turn to government for jobs. I will like you to pick 10 successful entrepreneurs that you know and run background checks on them. These are what you are likely to find out: 1#, most of them have a privileged background. 2#, most of them have held one type of job or the other and either resigned or got sacked. Many so called entrepreneurs will come out and start saying you need no money to be an entrepreneur. That is a FAT LIE. Finance gives us about 65% of idea we need to be an entrepreneur. That courage you have when you have fund that you can afford to lose and not a borrowed money. That courage of having your own money and whatever happens it is your own money. My opinion is that Nigerian youths are not lazy.

Metallurgist:
@checked86 it's true that government should provided job to the people, an ideally 15% is the max in any conducive environment. unfortunately this is not the case in nija. but as the author said no matter the situation hardworking ppl do find a niche and make good money and the reality is bitching about this government ain't gonna change a thing. but hard work does

There are things that you do not tackle directly. It is only a visionless government that would say I want to provide jobs for the youths. There are things that take their own course and JOB is one of them. When the economy is working, other things including employment will fall into place. When the government says they want to employ 10,000 youths to police force and for that they pride themselves for providing employment for the unemployed youths. Who is helping who here? Is the government doing it because they want to tackle security or just to provide employment? What I am saying is that if nigeria government is to staff its police force adequately to be able to police the populace, employment will come for those that want to really join force. Nigerian police force is understaffed and not enough to police a nation with the largest population in africa. This is an instance to show you that the nation is not working. Government should not provide jobs. Let them do their own part. Let the do the right thing every government should do and they will be battling for manpower with the private sectors because they would need human beings to run their progressing economy.