CHALLENGES OF THE YOUTHS AS LEADERS OF TOMORROW

CHALLENGES OF THE YOUTHS AS LEADERS OF TOMORROW.

It is of vital placement that the development of a nation is the sole function of its youth because the bright future of any country is always predicated on its present youth force, but any society with a mirage youth force is not far from a serious irreplaceable damage.

In Nigeria, the youth are always told in any gathering that they are the leaders of tomorrow but that tomorrow has never been allowed to come. The question now is “WHEN WILL THE TOMORROW COME?”

The position of the youth in the society is meant to be very scared because they are the future. " no child no future ", a quote says but bad government has made our youth the living dead who has despaired and resigning themselves to fate, and as a result of the inherent selfish nature of our leaders, it has brought the state of affairs of the nation in disarray In all aspect. The youth of our country encounter lot's of challenges which has resulted many of them as a waste.

      In several ways, many of them have been forced to embrace what so ever means that leads to survival, thereby resorting to all kinds of dishonesty, lawlessness, indiscipline etc due to the unbreakable hardship. It is no longer news today that most people involved in criminal activities fall in the youth age bracket, even those being wasted through forced prostitution and slave labor are results of unemployment,  unfavorable policies, inefficient education system, lack of basic attitude to think and excel, legible parental guidance which militates against the youth and being a great challenge.

Another painful one is that of our tertiary institution which has become a place which is meant only for the rich ones, while those from the average Nigerian parent is therefore denied to be educated because of the inability to afford the imaginable school fees in our tertiary institutions,  yet we are the leaders of tomorrow. Those of the school leavers spend several years waiting to get admission into tertiary institution,  the lucky few who were able to secure admission and graduate , graduate into unemployment while the ones who were lucky enough to get jobs are not yet paid salaries as at when due and yet Nigeria is among the leading oil producing nation.