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If the future of African continent resides with the youths, then it is paramount that we live up to expectations.

Going by several observations, African students are disconnected. We have no common ground of learning that can connect us all.

There is much we can learn from each other, but we fail to create the common ground. This is one reason the Western world/European countries are capitalizing on.

We have come with the idea and realisation that in our unity, we would be able to learn so much that can help our continent grow.

You can as well learn what goes on in another African country to seek ways to adopt it and initiate it in your own country and it will serve an effective purpose that will transform the economy.

THE AFRICAN STUDENTS ENTREPRENEURS SUMMIT organised by Roundnews is designed to serve the role of connecting and creating a platform to learn by young Africans.

It is important that we connect African students for the sake of learning and also to carve out possible ways to affect Africa for good.

The summit is to gather African youths/students and help them leverage on ideas, experiences and success stories of other young Africans.

It will bring together different youths and students from all African countries.

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You might be wondering, what is heat stroke? How true can I prevent heat stroke? Don't worry your questions will be answered.

Firstly, I will like to give an instance of when your car engine is overheating, you will notice that steam is coming out from the engine,the car bonnet is extremely hot, the temperature gauge reveals a very high temperature, there is reduced engine power and the car smells hot like a burning oil or plastic. This is also similar to humans when there is heat stroke.

Heatstroke is a condition in which there is body overheating, usually as a result of prolonged exposure to or physical exertion in high temperatures evidenced by a body temperature of 104 F (40 C) or higher. Just like the car engine that was overheating, there are reasons why the car is overheating due to blocked radiator, water pump failure, blown head gasket and so on, so also in human there are also causes of heat stroke such as high external temperature, physical exertion, high humidity, dehydration, alcohol, some disease conditions like heart disease, skin disorder and so on.

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Caleb Ijioma

The intake of "weed" in Nigeria is now becoming rampant than ever. One can conclude that "weed" has been unofficially legalized in the country and everybody Not withstanding the gender, age can participate in this activity.

Cannabis, in which a large number of Nigerians know as "weed" is a mix of dried, shredded leaves and flowers from the marijuana plant. It is often green, brown, or gray. People have developed different ways to take in this leaves for pleasure. They either roll marijuana up and smoke it like a cigarette, mix it in food and eat it, amongst many other methods. This however cause dizziness, happiness, fear, change in the human senses and can even lead to hallucinations.

In a 2017 report filed by Telegraph.co.uk( a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group) Nigeria was on the number 3 on the chart of the 30 world biggest smoking countries.
In January, 2019, a survey led by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse with technical support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and funding from the European Union, shows that Over the past year alone, nearly 15% of the adult population in Nigeria (around 14.3 million people) reported a “considerable level” of use of psychoactive drug substances—it’s a rate much higher than the 2016 global average of 5.6% among adults. It also reports that the highest levels of drug used was recorded among people aged between 25 to 39, with cannabis being the most widely used drug.

The rate by which canabis is consumed is becoming very high. The Ministerial Committee on Drug Policy. (2007);National Drug Policy 2007–2012 has it that Nigeria is ranked world 8th highest consumer of cannabis. This plant is widely grown across the States of Nigeria, including Ondo State, Edo State, Delta State, Osun State, Oyo State and Ogun State.

Even though smoking of "weed" in Nigeria has been tagged illegal, this activity is still usually done in the broad day Light without fear of arrest. According to the National drug law enforcement agency, the possession of cannabis is illegal and is punishable by a minimum sentence of 12 years in prison. In serious trafficking cases, life imprisonment may be imposed.

Are we really checking this laws? Has these laws been abandoned? Do we have a country that forgets its laws as the years progresses? If not, why is the numbers of cannabis users increasing?
Youths, children are now taking the lead role in "weed" consumption.

Cannabis smoking is a serious public health problem among adolescents in various environments.Its medico-social effects could ruin the life and future of our youths. The consumption of cannabis have ganied a stand in our environment because of easy access, the availability and peer pressure, this is reaching a dangerous dimension.

This does not only have an adverse effect in the lives of our youths but the country at large.
Students of higher learning even engage in this act. It has now become a normal tradition to trade and consume "weed" in the school environment. Pathetic I must say, ignorantly killing themselves for pleasure. This can have a long lasting effect in their life, not only their physical wellbeing but also academic life.

I am not saying that cannabis have no good effect, infact, the exportation of cannabis can be a source of income to our country. A former presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore in the month of may proposed that cannabis should be extracted and exported,he was also of the opinion that it can aid the growth of hairs.

However, if cannabis has been made legal, it should be binded by strict laws. License should be given to only few people and punishment served to anybody who have no license to sell. But I ask again, has it been made lagal? Can we now consume cannabis freely?

Howbeit, the widespread of "weed" consumption can be traced to unemployment, the availability of the product, it's easy accessible nature, peer pressure,amongst many other reasons.

In conclusion, I suggest that the Government takes punitive measures in other to curb the widespread of cannabis consumption, enforce laws and penalties, create more awareness on the effects of drugs and substance abuse. 

The future of our great country is at stake because citizen's are participating in an act that could turn them to "mad people" overnight. Jokingly, we don't want to have the increase of mental affected citizens. In other to avoid this, the Government and all government agencies need to participate in the fight against cannabis consumption.

Caleb Ijioma is the managing director of Roundnews media, a freelance journalist and a youth advocate. He can best be reached at calebijioma@gmail.com.

We have continued to clamour for a good and balanced education sysyem in the country.

We have staged lots of protest and have equally done lot of campaigns against the Government that have degraded our education system.

We have shouted at the top of our voices and our pen has bled out our suffering. We have marched like soldiers to the doorstep of Government officials, demanding for a free and balanced education system; but all has become abortive. What else can we do?

How do we convince the younger generation that education is the best policy when we have poor graduates and rich criminals? How do we become leaders of tomorrow if we are not properly tutored?

Education is the bedrock of economical development and a platform for physical and mental growth. While the country has become stagnant is because of our perspective.

We shouldn't ignore the fact that perspective rules and its a major determiner of how our world becomes. For you to change the world, you need to change your neighbor, for you to change your neighbor,you need education. If one person can change, the whole world can.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

ASUU strike has lasted for more than a month and the effect is unimaginable. It is capable of destroying our future, the ASUU strike also makes the zeal for education reduce thereby paving way for all sorts of social vices.

The Nigeria Government has totally ignored the fact that social menace can't be curbed if you destroy education. When their is no avenue to enlighten Nigerians on leadership, integrity and help them grow their career interest, they involved in all sorts of fraudulent acts.

When education is not provided, how do we know what our country is demanding from us? How do we know what is right? How do we know the effect of our actions? How do we provide solutions to sensitive problems? How do we grow our country?

Nigerian Students across the country should stand up and demand from this Government their right to education. You can't destroy our future and request for our votes.

Its disheartening how the FG spend so much on fuel and abandon our future. They send their children outside the country to study and pay no attention to Nigeria Education.

They toy with our lives and only pay attention to their pockets.

The lecture no vote campaign is the next step for all students across the country and even in diaspora. We can't continue to smile while suffering.students are part of the country stake holders and and they should ensure that they vote out any government that have failed them come 2019.

Give them education, corruption will be reduced, give them education, technology will increase, give them education, great minds will be built,give them education and the country will be developed.

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

To bring change, we must struggle, to struggle we must be determined.

All students, stakeholders, student leaders, student bodies must stand in one accord to ensure that the no lecture no vote campaign is achieved. They should use their PVC to chase away any government that have said NO to their future.

In one voice we shall speak come 2019!

Caleb ijioma
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Caleb ijioma

It is unfortunate that we find ourselves in a society where the authorities take pride in enhancing SDC against the students. It is said that while our Professors preach that progress is a far cry in a society shorn of peace, they allow fear to thrive in an environment governed by them. They seem ignorant of the fact that that the only thing you can learn under a climate of fear is servitude and cognitive dependence- (The road before the fourth estate, pg. 42 and 43)

The level of student victimization have immensely increased in the last few months. There has been a hatred for truths and students activism. The callous nature of the school management have negatively affected the lives of students who partake in truth saying and actions related to it.

Free Mind and conscience, freedom of speech and expression has been perceived to be a threat to the school management and its environs. This perception of theirs has established a military form of system which doesn’t give opportunity for freedom to exist in the institution.

Students have been hunted, threatened, victimized and their voices shutdown for choosing the path of truth and believing in a just society. Students’ activism has been seen as an attempt to put the name of the institution in disrepute and to equally turn students against the school management. A false ideology I must say.

There are lots of corruption in the Nigerian Tertiary institution today and students who are the end receiver of all their corrupt practices have been told to keep mute or face disciplinary actions. Students who go outside this warnings to speak the truth and to express their opinions on issues that affects their education lose their studentship. What is our dear institution grooming student to be?

The institution is supposed to be a place where students are taught to differentiate between bad and good and to speak out when faced with oppression and injustice so as to make the world a better place but reverse seems to be the case.

A lot of cases have been reported and punishments ranging from expulsion and suspension has been served to students who decided to correct the abnormalities found in their respective institution’s.

If this continue to exist in our Institution, we will have citizens who will eventually venture into different positions in the country and will end up embracing corruption because those that stood for the truth were hunted, making them believe they took a wrong step; Ignorantly growing the leaders of tomorrow to be weaklings, cowards who can’t stand up for the truth because they have been fed with fear, the fear of losing what they cherish so much, the fear of losing their education.

If we can be allowed to speak the truth and to defend our claims, we will have less problems in the country. If only we can be allowed to express our opinions and thoughts, there will be less corruption and death rate.

The effect of all this is that corruption will be on the increase and students will suffer in the hands of the school management because their voices have seized and fear have trampled on their needs. They become puppets and slaves with no freedom of speech and expression.

Students in different tertiary institution are suffering, their confidence has been broken and ideology changed. Are this the kind of people who will take up the mantle of leadership in different sectors of the country? I fear for the future of our dear country, Nigeria.