April,2014
EDITORIAL
CampusExpress....Empowering the youth through information
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Love, Sex, Entertainment and the
Misleading of the Youthful Mind... What next?
Ibrahim-Ballo Taye Ozigi & Durosinmi-Etti Tobi
It is no doubt something of prestige
to be in one of the leading higher
institutions in the nation, the rigour
of writing exams and screening one
goes through, but once in, it so
happens people (the youth) tend to
forget what actually we are there for,
for some reason we are satiated with
the wrong idea, the idea that would
sadly haunt our future. The ideology
of university these days is one that
remains still a mystery to me from
whence its roots came, don't the
youth see their predecessors?, haven't
they at least heard of them?, the likes
of Akintunde Ojo, and students
during his time nation wide who
stopped at nothing to make sure their
right was given to them and they
haven't been cheated? Woe to this
generation of youths who measure
worth by the amount of vanity which
one can amass not minding if its
legal or not, we have brought to
ourselves nothing but disrespect and
dishonour, are we not ready yet to
redeem ourselves, are we going to
continue basking in mindless
fornication and wild partying night
after night? Internet fraud (yahoo
yahoo) is now a norm in the society
amongst youths, its become so
rampant we are known to the
international world to be fraudsters, it
doesn't end there, some even take this
to be their 'full time job'. When
would we realise a whole world is
out there waiting for us, when would
we realise the nation needs us, when
would we realise we have tarred for
too long, have slumbered like little
monsters, when do we realise its time
to grow up.
After myriads of situations
plaguing the nation, the one people
which it is affecting and would affect
still to come are the one people who
seem to be mindless the most about
it, the ones who have barricaded the
thought from their minds. They
would rather be of them who go
about with promiscuous activities,
but do they stop to think for once,
'after all of this what next'? Do they
stop to think for once, 'aren't I buying
my future with my nonchalance'?
It is saddening when the
youths these days expect a miracle to
happen to the country's situation,
even more saddening when most
don't even know what's happening,
and most saddening when just about
all don't even want to talk about it,
the little who then do get stereotyped
which till this day baffles me, the
only political talk that seem to
interest all youths is 'when I get there
I'll eat money too', the future of
Nigeria as it is. One would think
coming to the higher institution,
finally he would meet people like he,
but no, one thought wrong, it seems to be
higher institution means free ticket to sex
and booze and frivolousness, its fine if you
do all of this but how do you become a part
of what you don't know, how do you
become a part of a future you're a stranger
to? It would never end this cycle, always it
would remain the same, from the cabal of
these "leaders" would spring a ruler, and
who says these traits aren't passed, take a
look at the Kuti family where all of the
children are arguably activists thanks to
their Father Fela Anikulakpo who fought
for the then Nigeria against the military
regime, how our parents were scared of
them but with his music he held back not
and criticised them of their wrongs. Why
can't we be more like Fela the greatest
Africa musician that ever lived and with his
vociferous ways affect those around him
including his childhood mate Wole
Shoyinka yes, act of valour could be
contagious, why can't we be the voice of the
people, why can't we be the courage born in fear
and the strength born in weakness, why can't we
be the messiah's of Nigeria? How about the
Bankole family where the father was corrupt and
then the son even with his degree of education
wasn't so far from his father traits, who then says
these can't be hereditary? And we the youth,
when a little bone is thrown to our lap, we rush it
like a street dog, we are satisfied with just about
anything we are given, never complain, the
perfect zombies for politicians, is it an act of fear,
or are we just insouciant? Look at the current fuel
hike which in the real sense has been increased
for no just cause where is our voice?, have we
been oppressed so much our voice have been
strained so it makes no audible sound no more? I
am more critical of the youth for our parents have
lived this way and as we all can see it has worked
for the worse for them, are we going to continue
with their way too?, well I for one plan not to live
that way, but it is not a change only one can
make, it would only be an effort laid to waste.
Have you seen the ongoing national
CONFAB, have you seen how poorly the youths
are represented? The representatives of the
youths aren't so youthful are they, well that is
only because we the youths haven't fought to
represent ourselves and for that we've been left
out and allowed our future to be determined by a
lot of men who wouldn't even be there and until
we change our view and are more concerned at
least for our welfare it would remain like this
for a (long) while. Aren't we supposed to be
more concerned about this than the amount of
girlfriends someone has more than us, aren't
we supposed to sit and be more brave and
fight for our right from this tyrannical
government? Surely we are doing wrong to
no other but ourselves. The national
CONFAB is almost laughable, have you seen
the representatives?, there are amongst them
the celebrated thieves Maina the pension
thief, Bode George the NPA thief and
Alamieyeseigha who guised himself as a
woman to flee the country, our very own
states man acting like the movie character
James Bond. Still, it wouldn't be fair on the
path of delegates who have shown
commendable acts, who at least show their
loyalty to the country giving away their
royalty to the public, the likes of Tunde
Bakare, although still there's no reason why
people have to be paid to help a nation move
forward, it doesn't make any sense, people
who destroyed it in the first