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Isaac Owili-Mensah at 00:51:00 0


Some folks think the easiest way to attain success in any given field of human endeavour is to cut corners and transact businesses not legit in that respect.

Businesses not legit are acts capable of ruining one’s chances of success in any situation one finds his/herself. These in the aspect of exams involves carrying extraneous materials into the exam hall at the instance that your counterparts are busy cracking their brains out to supply answers to the problems before them.

Be that the case, it is understandable that most persons who tout the notion of carrying extraneous materials considered illegit into exam hall are bereft of the fact that success have secrets and untill those secrets are unravel all efforts towards success will only seem to amount to an exercise in futility.

There are basically two broad practical steps to consider before venturing into any exams. These steps are PRE-EXAMS PREPARATION and EXAMS PREPARATION tips.

Enter Pre-Exams Preparation.
Pre-exams preparation are basically preparatory measures embarked upon before the D-day of the exams. The Pre-exams preparatory tips include:

• Trying your hands on past/model questions of the exams. This step will help you to build the desired confidence that you will do well in the exams.

• Read your textbooks and pinpoint major facts out from them for exams that will come in objective and subjective formats.

• Create mnemonics to support your memory for topics you think are so vast.

• Endeavour a day before the D-day of the exams, all gadgets you will require in the exams hall are kept intact possibly at a place you can easily sight them out.

...........to be continued.

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Admin at 00:22:00 1
Cohabitation- Campus Marriage
One of the most prevalent practices amongst students on campus is cohabitation. Statistics has shown that 48% of undergraduates actually engage in this depraved vice. Even more appalling is how this vice is greatly applauded by their fellow students.

 The term 'cohabitation' refers to a state in which a male and female live together and having a sexual relationship without being married.

The sole reason for being in school is to learn, however, due to whatever circumstances has brought up, learning has undergone a new transformation. It is no news that majority of undergraduates are in one relationship or the other, this does not however give the liberty to be living as a couple without having gone through the rites of marriage.

Funny enough, many of these students perpetrating this act do not see anything even remotely wrong with their decadent lifestyle. One cannot help but wonder the wheels turning in these students head for them to engage in this depravity.

  A very common reason for engaging in such act is the word 'love'. Their love for their partners as well as their hesitation to be apart from each other has driven them to the sole conclusion that they should live together as couples.

  Students, most especially the females are easily led into believing that living together with their partners will make them get to know each other better. This includes behaviours, likes and dislikes amongst others which will supposedly enhance and strengthen their relationship. For the males, cohabitation gives them this feeling of being an 'alpha' male - a domineering figure in their partners life and the ability of having a say in their lives. Of course, it also gives them the chance to ensure that their partners do not cheat on them.

  Also, cohabitation seems to gives such couples this rush of pride amongst their fellow students, they become the envy of other student couples. Some even go as far as getting an award for ' best couples on campus'!

  Another reason for students practicing cohabitation is lack of accommodation. Most students live together with their partners with the excuse of having no where to stay ultimately resulting in them not leaving at all.

  The bitter truth is that cohabitation poses a huge threat to those practicing it.
First, it distracts students from their studies - the initial reason for them being in school. Ladies involved in such practices tend to do some domestic chores apart from sex which includes washing, cleaning and cooking for their partners which leaves little or no time for their studies. The males take up the responsibility of being the 'head' of the house and have to provide in terms of finances and otherwise for their partners, some even take menial jobs so as to make ends meet and consequently deviating from their studies.

  Another danger of cohabitation is that it causes emotional trauma. Most times, the females in the relationship are assaulted physically and psychologically. They tend to wholly depend on their partners to provide for them and this reduces them to being a liability rather than an asset.

Unfortunately, many of these relationships hardly last, some die when one or both partners graduate from school.

  Even more alarming is the high rate of unwanted pregnancies, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea, herpes and HIV/AIDS which might lead to untimely deaths!

  All these for what? This brings us to the twenty million dollar question- What is the solution?
  Charity they say begins at home, Parents have a lot of work cut out for them. The first of many is giving proper orientation to their  children especially their females. The latter should be taught the value of independence and not be a subject to the whims of men. For example, they do domestic chores for their partners when they are married.

  Another of the Parent's numerous duties is thorough monitoring of their children. This does not necessarily means giving them no room for privacy, however, it does not hurt to keep close tabs on them and place them under watchful radar. If possible, they should pay unexpected visits to their children in their schools. This goes a long way in curbing the practices of cohabitation.


  The school itself should not be exempted in the process of eradicating cohabitation. Accommodations should be duly provided for the students. Also, the school authorities should organise various seminars and other educational talks in a bid to educate the students on the hazards of cohabitation and how to totally avoid it.

Written by Olorunsola Grace Adebisi.
A student of LASUSOC, 300 level.


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The time you spend with your spouse right before you drift off to sleep is arguably the most important interaction you’ll have all day. Largely, it helps you overcome all day stress and the hectic workload at the office or place of business.

Below, relationship experts share seven bedtime mistakes couples often make — and how to get back on track.

1. Going to bed at different times.



Sorry, night owl/early bird couples: Differing sleep schedules may seem like no big thing, but it’s more harmful than you realise, said Marcia Naomi Berger, a psychotherapist and author ofMarriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted.

“It’s a recipe for feeling lonely and emotionally (and physically) detached from each other,” she said. “One of the best things about being a couple is the warm, fuzzy time you share right before drifting off to sleep — why would anyone want to sacrifice that?
If you’re going to bed at separate times, there may be more to it than meets the eye, said Berger. “A conflict or grudge might exist that you need to talk about earlier in the day.”

2. Being inconsiderate of your spouse’s schedule.
If your late night TV or texting habits are getting in the way of your spouse’s rest, it may be time to move the flat screen or smartphone out of the bedroom, said Becky Whetstone, a marriage and family therapist based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Whetstone called on a real life example to illustrate her point.

One husband I counselled was a physician and had to be at the hospital by 6:00 a.m. every weekday. He pleaded with his wife, a stay-at-home mum, to not watch TV when he was trying to get a good night’s sleep but she wanted to keep it on all night as background noise

Whetstone recalled. “Despite every effort ­– like suggesting she get headphones or he get earplugs and blinders for his eyes — nothing brought him peace and she would not budge. A few years later, they divorced.”

3. Saying nothing — or very little — to each other before bed.
After a long day of work and looking after the kids, who can blame you for wanting to jump into bed and call it a night? Still, it’s worth trying to carve out some time to emotionally reconnect with your spouse.
“Take the time to talk about the highlights and low points of your day,” said LiYana Silver, a San Francisco-based relationship coach. “There’s no need to offer advice or therapy to each other — just keep it to a short share.”

4. Spending time with your smartphone over quality time with your spouse.
Do yourself a favour and escort your smartphone out of the room before you head to bed. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and texts should always take a backseat to your spouse, but especially before bed, Berger said.

“Taking a tablet or phone to bed with you harms your relationship in two ways: First, it isolates you emotionally from each other,” she said. “Secondly, when we’re on electronic device shortly before sleep, the stimulation from the screen tends to keep you awake. With insufficient sleep, we’re likely to be less patient, kind and tolerant toward our partner the next day.”

 5. Self-grooming in bed.
Save the grooming regimen for the bathroom. As Whetstone has heard from clients, nothing kills romance quite like an errant toenail flicking you in the face.A wife I worked with was disgusted with her husband’s tendency for grooming his nails in bed,” Whetstone recalled. “She’d say, ‘I hear a click or crack and every now and then a piece of toe or fingernail hits me in the face or flies across the room and bounces off the wall!’ Even when the nails didn’t hit her, she felt like he didn’t care at all about what she thought of him.”

A wife I worked with was disgusted with her husband’s tendency for grooming his nails in bed. Whetstone recalled. “She’d say, ‘I hear a click or crack and every now and then a piece of toe or fingernail hits me in the face or flies across the room and bounces off the wall!’ Even when the nails didn’t hit her, she felt like he didn’t care at all about what she thought of him.


6. Putting physical intimacy on the back burner.
Starting to feel more like roommates than spouses? If one of you is avoiding coming to bed or is seemingly disinterested in sex, talk through your issues before you hit the sheets, said Whetstone.
“When it comes to sex, quite a few clients have told me they suspect that their spouse won’t come to bed at the same time they do because they want to avoid sex — and quite a few don’t deny that,” she said.”I always say, ‘Wouldn’t it just be easier to talk about it rather than hide out in another room and tiptoe to bed once you know they’re in a deep sleep?'”

“I always say, ‘Wouldn’t it just be easier to talk about it rather than hide out in another room and tiptoe to bed once you know they’re in a deep sleep?'”

7. Going to bed angry.
You shouldn’t abruptly end an argument just because it’s late and you’re both tired. But allowing unresolved conflicts or misunderstandings to fester time and time again isn’t good for your marriage, either.

“There is a good reason for the saying, ‘Don’t go to bed angry,'” said Berger.

“Instead, do your best to clear up issues well before bedtime, so when you’re ready to turn in for the night you’ll both want to communicate lovingly, in words, tone and actions.”

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Isaac Owili-Mensah at 20:30:00 0
Mental Illness: A Time Bomb Waiting to Explode in Nigeria

By Imeobong Okon

Mental illness, disorder is characterized by disturbances in a person's thoughts, emotions, or behavior.

It can also be refer to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from those that cause mild  to those that severely impair a person's ability to function.
People only respond to mental health problems when it only related to SCHIZOPHRENIC, and ignore the other forms of mental health disorders which can more often lead to SUICIDE, than a SCHIZOPHRENIA.

The symptoms of mental illness can be very distressing.
People who develop SCHIZOPHRENIA may hear voices inside their head that say nasty things about them or command them to act in strange or unpredictable ways. Or they may be paralyzed by paranoia- the deep conviction that everyone, including their closest family members, wants to injure or destroy them.

People with major DEPRESSION may feel that nothing brings pleasure and that life is so dreary and unhappy that it is better to dead.

People with PANIC DISORDER may experience heart palpitations, rapid breathing and anxiety so extreme that they may not be able to leave home.

People usually experience ANXIETY about events they cannot control or predict, or about events that seem threatening or dangerous.

People who experience episodes of MANIA may engage in reckless sexual behavior or may spend money indiscriminately, acts that later cause them to feel guilt, shame, desperation and even contemplating suicide.

Please let pay serious  attention to our mental health, and seek help from professional and stop seeking help from pseudo therapists.
Talk to a professional social worker today.

Imeobong Okon is a social worker.




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By: Sam Ibok
A few months ago, the media was awash with the report that the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) has completed its university Mountain Top University. This is somewhat cheery news for Nigeria, especially the Christian population. The burgeoning youth population is in urgent need of more institutions to satisfy the desire to acquire tertiary education.
It is often argued that many faith-based universities are better equipped than public institutions. Backed by churches with deep pockets and sincere commitment to improving the society, no expense is spared in the bid to acquire state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for the universities. The efforts have paid off as some universities are now ranked higher than many government-owned schools.
Faith-based universities are also unique from another perspective. They profess to focus on the simultaneous development of the mental, spiritual, moral and physical make up of students setting themselves apart from secular universities, which have no business catering for spiritual needs of their students.
However, in the long run, this emphasis on spiritual training may prove to be their undoing. Public universities are training schools in moral and mutual respect. Apart from providing academic training, students many of whom have lived with their parents all their lives are brought in close contact with people from diverse backgrounds and belief systems.
Sharing rooms and bunks with Christian northerners and Muslim southerners, for instance, facilitate a better appreciation of the diversity that exists in Nigeria. It creates room for respect and integration of people with strict backgrounds into society.
Students in public schools are exposed to the many challenges of time and finance management, which help them to see how their choices directly affect the quality of their lives and how their choices affect their grades.
However, this, to a large extent, is not the case in many faith-based universities. In a bid to ensure spiritual and moral development, the administrators of these institutions have taken over the business of making personal choices for their students. Young adults, who should ordinarily be left to decide how to spend their time and to take responsibility for their choices are made to live regimented life.
Students in some of these universities only have access to school-controlled phone lines; they do not dare to be seen talking to ladies or holding hands in public. Exit from school premises is strictly controlled, and some of them attend up to seven services a week.
This, in my opinion, defeats the very purpose of university education. University graduates are expected to have learned some wisdom by themselves in order to live independently in society. They must be balanced people, who can tolerate and live with people of different backgrounds and beliefs. They must be responsible people, who can make informed choices and live with the consequences.
There is a need to strike a balance. The desire to provide faith-based qualitative education must be balanced with a healthy appreciation of the need to train responsible and tolerant graduates. Until this balance is reached, faith-based institutions will continue to contribute to the imbalance in the society.

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By: Sam Ibok
Sam Ibok
It is about that time of the year again when fresh graduates nationwide begin another phase of struggle after passing through stress to get higher certificates. They are preparing to be mobilised for the mandatory National Youth Service. In the next couple of weeks, the graduates will be in different camps of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Now, I am not against the scheme as the headline of this article may suggest. I just feel that the programme is losing its relevance and perhaps living on borrowed time. I have my reasons for holding this opinion.
The average Nigerian student goes to school and spends, at least, four years – that is if he is not an engineering, law or medical student who should complete his studies between 5 – 7 years. But in the academic years, periods of lecturers’ strike and their non-teaching counterparts are calculated and factored, which can make a four-year course to take five or six years for completion.
After spending at least five years, one graduates from school with its attendant stress, struggle and all other forms suffering. Then, he is mobilised for another round of stress for a year in the service of the nation. By then, a graduate would be reaching an age that employers don’t like?
In years past, NYSC was seen as a scheme that fostered unity and encourage understanding among tribes that make up Nigeria. It also allowed interaction and union (in the form of marriage) of people who never had history of meeting. It was designed to make the youths contribute to development of the nation.
The sad reality of it is that, these days, no one believes in the values listed above. First, a fresh graduate thinks of how he can fit in to the society quick enough to pay back his parents’ investments on him throughout his school days. He has siblings that depend on him for various domestic help but then, the nation is saying he should go to a far-flung community to serve.
What is the essence of rendering a service to the nation? Why should youths give their time to serve a nation that cannot guarantee give them shelter and ensure their safety and future? Has anyone ever wondered why we have square pegs in round holes in various organisations?
Many of our graduates fresh from school with little or no working experience are thrust on various sectors – schools, banks and local government councils among other – during their service year. Now you have a graduate of engineering posted to a bank as a cashier, what happens? In that one year, he forgets most of his engineering mathematics and studies banking principles to fit into his new job.
He gets used to banking and is then offered a full time job there on completion of his service. Because he realises that getting jobs in the country is harder than fetching water with a sieve, he decides to take the offer and thus ends up stuck in that sector for a long while. The same goes with other disciplines and eventually, the trend goes on and on.
Given the spate of violence being reported each day in the country and with little protection for Corps members, they will be targets of violent criminals who see them as strangers and easy prey. Government has no plan for their safety; when bad things happen and Corps members are killed, we start hearing empty threats and promises. But it is the parents that will lose in the end.
Why then should anyone serve? Service to a nation that does not have our interests at heart is effort in futility. These days, it is commonplace to see graduates influencing their postings to preferable states because they value their lives and desire something profitable.
Since the original reasons for creating NYSC have proven to be of no use today, can people be allowed to move on with their lives after graduation? Can they be allowed to pursue their dreams and desires rather than being sent to a prison called NYSC camps? Can they serve their nation with their talents? Questions will continue to be asked and debates will rage on until Nigeria realises that it has held back and derailed many youths through this scheme. To the prospective Corps members, may God be with you.


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Students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) in Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, are threatening to “occupy” the office of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, if he fails to meet their lecturers’ demands. This was their resolution when they gathered to discuss their lecturers’ ongoing strike. FESTUS OGUN reports.
When will the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) in Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, enjoy strike-free session? This is the question students posed last weekend when they gathered to discuss their lecturers’ ongoing strike.
For over three weeks, activities on the campus have been paralysed, following the indefinite strike embarked upon by the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the government’s alleged failure to fund the school.
ASUU said the government had not funded the school for 23 months, resulting in the non-payment of salaries for the past three months.
The students are wondering why their lecturers must go on strike before being paid their salaries. The students said the strike   would slow down the school’s academic calendar. They also expressed dissatisfaction over what they called government’s “lackadaisical attitude” towards the institution.
The school’s ASUU Chairman, Dr Deji Agboola, said lecturers had worked for three months without being paid. He accused Governor Ibikunle Amosun of “reneging” on the promises made to the union during a warning strike a few months ago. He added that the government had neglected the institution.
Agboola said: “The issue on ground is non-payment of salary by the government. And there is no assurance that we are going to have our salaries paid in the next four or five months.”
He said ASUU has adopted “no pay, no work” indefinite action to press home its demands.
The university, he disclosed, was being run with fees paid by the students. He said: “This government has not brought a dime to fund the university. The university management has used internally-generated revenue (IGR) to pay salaries of some workers in the past 23 months.”
Agboola said the institution’s IGR should have been invested in research and infrastructure projects on the campus, adding that all projects inaugurated on the campus recently by Governor Amosun, were those donated by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).
He said: “The university IGR was exhausted in June. By the end of July, it became obvious  that we were not going to get salaries any longer. Again, these students, some of whom were done with their examinations, are not going to come back until October. This means workers will not earn anything till then, because the state government has not been responsible enough to even do anything in the university for the past 23 months.”
The development is drawing a strong response from students, who are disenchanted with the continued closure of the school.
Barring last minute change of mind, students, after their meeting convened at the instance of their leaders, Students’ Union Government (SUG) last weekend have vowed to march on the governor’s office at Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
The planned protest, a source told CAMPUSDELIGHT, would be joined by members of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the local chapter of Joint Campus Committee (JCC). At the meeting, it was unanimously agreed that if the government does not reach agreement with the striking lecturers this week, the governor will receive “strange visitors” in his office. For security reasons, a member of the SUG said the date of the protest would not be announced.
A 200-Level Biochemistry student, Femi Wilson, said the lecturers’ action was lawful. He blamed the government for abandoning the institution. “The government is not ready to fund the school. If it is not so, I don’t expect the strike to have gotten to this level, where workers have had to declare indefinite action,” he said.
While many students blamed the government, some have faulted the timing of the lecturers’ action. They said the strike came at a “delicate period” in the school.
Olumuyiwa Odubela, a 300-Level Law student, said ASUU should have allowed the ongoing semester examination to end before embarking on the strike. According to him, the lecturers were insensitive to students’ plight before announcing the action.
He said: “I don’t know why the lecturers did not wait for the right time to embark on their industrial action. Examination time is the least period to think of strike. This will affect the academic calendar negatively, because all examinations will have to be rescheduled. Results of papers already written are being delayed, while graduating students are held to ransom by the lecturers.”
Another student, Titiloye Dawodu, told CAMPUSDELIGHT that she was not happy about the development, urging the government to accede to the lecturers’ demands. She noted that if the strike continued, she would use the period to learn a vocation.
For three weeks, students have been left idle. Most of them have expressed deep regrets over the development. Taiwo Dada, a 300-Level Political Science student, said the strike would prolong her stay on the campus. She said: “The strike has affected me and other students in a lot of ways. How do they expect us to cope with the attendant frustration? Many have stopped reading, yet whenever they call off the strike, they would ask us to come and write examinations the next day. This is deeply frustrating.”
Speaking with CAMPUSDELIGHT, the SUG president, Tayo Mabunmi, also expressed his grievances over the matter. He said several appeal letters were written to the government on the non-payment of the lecturers’ salary. According to him, negotiations are on-going. He added that if the negotiation failed, students would have no option than to march on the governor’s office.
He said: “Obviously, our lecturers are fighting a just cause. They deserve to be paid on time. Subventions for the school should not also be withheld. Students are clamoring for confrontation, but we have to put our consolidation very tight and put a lot of considerations in place before we embark on the protest. And if we are to protest, we are going to do it in a way that no life or property will be lost.”
When The Nation spoke to Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Modupe Mujota, to get the government’s reaction, she said she was in a meeting and asked our reporter to call back an hour later.
When our reporter called back after an hour, Mrs Mujota said the reporter should send a text message. She did not respond to the message before press time last night.

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Admin at 01:52:00 0
I remain Habeeb Whyte and I am still obliged with the responsibility that life placed on me to suggest a path deserving a collective action from Nigerian youths towards what fate have for us as Nigerians. You would agree with me that we are the architect of our present circumstance and blaming anyone for our actions or inactions would be injurious. However, this present action of voting the ‘change’ we desire is not injurious but a blessing in disguise. Nigeria is our father’s land and so shall it remain. The struggles of our heroes shall not be in vain and that is why we keep advocating for ‘positive change’ and not just change. The much talked about change can’t be taken by face value; it will resonate well on our daily lives, but after a long and painstaking work. In essence, President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort in the last 100days in office cannot be said to have failed the youth constituency.

I would be right to say that President Muhammadu Buhari was elected because we got tired with lying and looting personnel in the realm of governance. The country desperately needs an honest leader at that period. To the glory of God, we got one and our criticism of him should be to avoid the repeat of GEJ days. We can’t afford another stray administration, Change is not just a word, and it takes collective action. I would not join the bandwagon of those that assume that criticizing a shortcoming of Buhari is an expression of regret for ever supporting him. Of course, we must do criticism but what our government needs as at now is criticism that is founded on intellectualism devoid of bigotry, hatred or ethnic sentiments. Nigerian youth movement will make meaningful contributions to national development if only it is driven by intellectualism. The issue of PMB failing youths in 100 days is a perspective that is out of consonance with the interests of the youth constituency.

PMB in his manifesto before elected said among many things that relate to youth matters that he would harness and develop our potentials to the fullest so as to facilitate the emergence of the new generation of citizens. He said further that he would put in place measures to identify talents and promote Nollywood to fully develop into world class movie industry. All this emphasized statements are directed towards the youths. It is so shameful that most of us are already having heated arguments on whether he has made attempt to make this come to past in his 100 days in office. It is just so painful that most youth movements are not driven towards a defined goal and with clear constructive objectives. Individual youth and youth leaders has personal goal and objectives perhaps but a movement must be unified with a vision and commitment stimulated by some mutually beneficial objectives. My own understanding of the problems are clear and have been stated on many occasions vis a viz;

• That the phones, games, electronic gadgets, cars, clothes, shoes, jewelry, wrist watches, etc. that we crave to acquire and fondly display to the extent of undertaking unethical 'jobs' and crimes to earn enough to buy, are made by our mates in Singapore, China, Brazil, India, Korea, and even South Africa. Therefore what youths in Nigeria need is not to be handed leadership. We rather need a development programme comprehensive enough to provide for ideal value-orientation, standard education and training, entrepreneurial capacities, and funding mechanism that will enable us to compete with our mates in knowledge, skills, executive competencies, and industrial diligence.
• That an average actor in India writes films that promote national interests, revamp failing value system, or depicts India's strength over Pakistan and Kashmir or express the values of Indian culture in comparison with Western culture. Indians won’t kiss in films nor have sex but play love within the parameters of their culture. Where are we? What do our Nollywood actors do? Imitate western cultural behaviours that are illicit in our cultural eyes in the name of civilisation. Nollywood and our music industry, a youth driven sector, as it is only contributes to the bastardisation of our future leaders and therefore need serious orientational reform before funding.
• A youth that will make meaningful contribution to national development must have trained and developed his/her mind to be stimulated by patriotism, constructive contribution and a sense of pride attached only to dignity. It has being a count of scores (deaths) in some state capitals among warring secret cult groups and the increase in cyber fraudsters is so alarming. Are these the youths clamouring for youth inclusion in governance? We had seen youth given top executives positions in the dark days of democracy and were at best doing the dirty jobs for their 'good and youth-friendly' bosses, I appreciate that PMB has a responsibility to depart us from this trend. How is he going to go about it, I don't understand but his leadership styles in these 100 days suggested to some of us that he understands the implication of a nation with over 100 million youths population mostly uncultured, mostly half-baked in education and training, and with zero sense of pride in their nation.
I will therefore mobilise Nigerian youths to support the ongoing reforms tar getting firstly our orientation about governance and corruption. Without fear of disagreement I would say PMB has not failed the Nigerian youth constituency. He is already setting the pace for us to be handed a good leadership system. My reasons are stated below:
• Every other sector he had touched has youths benefitting the most. Civil service has over 60% youth population. So, his interventions that put smiles on the faces of workers benefit youths the most. Even the elders in the civil service can now fund their youth-children's education and upkeep.
• When the Agric sector reform takes off, youths will make over 60% of benefactors.
• If the treasury management reform saves us a fortune in national revenue hitherto unremitted to treasury, Nigerian youths will benefits the most.
• When road accidents reduce, when avoidable deaths reduce in our hospitals, when Boko Haram killings stop, when security of lives reached climax, youths will benefit the most.
• There are youths in every sector of the economic and every aspect of our national life affect youths. So, there is no gainsaying that PMB has touched the lives of youths.
• Our Universities centers on youths. So, reforming education is youth centred project.
The problem is that we assume some individuals that are self-christened and parades themselves as youth leaders to be the youth PMB must talk to or 'touch' directly. It is a crooked thinking and Baba himself is aware of this. Our constituency holds the key to the greatness of this country. We must assume the position to help and not be helped. We must reform ourselves before we are been reformed.
(WHYTE HABEEB IBIDAPO is a Lawyer, United Nations Award winner, Africa International Arbitration Award winner, Coca cola/ The Nation Campuslife Award Winner, Promasidor Runner-up for the Best Future Writer in Nigeria, i-Hustle Campaign Initiative Ambassador and Editor Egba Youth Awards Foundation.
Email: whyte287@gmail.com
@whytehabeeb


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