Motivational speeches have a short shelf life when it comes to matters than run deeper than words. What is faced by millions of Nigerian youths is far beyond the deft touches of a nice talk. Having left Nigeria some five years ago, I live in the United Kingdom still feeling a part of me lodged…
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet, I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino One of the unsavoury indices of most African economies is the level of youth employment. Nigeria for instance skirts around 30-50 per cent figure of unemployed youths. It’s no…
The National youth service exercise is most graduates dream. It’s a mixed bag-for some it’s a liberating adventure, to others, a sightless journey to the unknown. My university education rather shifted my personal fundamentals, from the happy-go-lucky attitude to one of stern addiction to handwork-because at school I only looked at life through the prism…
Nigeria is at the verge of breaking into an economically powerful province driven by the resourcefulness and determination of its teeming youth population. Economic power should be in the hands of the people in the first instance- a key import of a free enterprise economy. That has been the experience of the emerging economies- India…