money speaks pilot edition1.pdF

Gone are the days when statements such as the
“the youth are the future” still held sway
because out of Nigeria’s 150 million population
approximately 100 million are below the age of
30, so it has become ever so clear going by these
statistics, that the youth are no longer the
“future” but rather they’re the “present”.
The youth are now the dominant force in the
nation as they represent the largest age group.
100 million young people who desperately need
to know that their government has their best
interests at heart occupy the land. Every single
year thousands of young Nigerians graduate
from university and are added to the ever
expanding list of those who are “educated and
unemployed”. When you add this figure to the
“uneducated and unemployed” segment of the
society, then you will realise that as a nation, we
are sitting on a time bomb.
Restlessness is synonymous with youth, and if
this idle army of young fire brands do not enter
some sort of gainful employment or self
employment very soon, then we could have a
revolution in our hands. The unemployment
situation amongst the youth can no longer be
used simply as a topic for discussion around the
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dinner table or as the catalyst to stimulate the
intellectual orgasms of a few economists who
spend their days perusing financial data and
pontificating (on a solely academic level) about
the economic realities of our time; it’s time to
act and we must act quickly before it is too late..
The proposal which I have outlined in this
presentation can solve this problem if acted
upon. The last thing we need is yet another
unproductive youth conference where people
simply attend in order impress each other with
their knowledge of the English language and
spout out phrases such as “paradigm shifts” and
after all that talk, the economic realities of our
youth remain unaltered. We finally have a
strategy which has the potential to solve the
unemployment epidemic besieging our nation
and revitalise our young and extremely dynamic
population.
The youth have become understandably
apathetic with the conduct of our political class
and very few of them believe that their
government actually cares about them or their
well being, but I am convinced however that if
the above strategy is implemented nationwide,
this prevailing apathy will dissipate and a
reconnect between the youth (who now make up
the majority of our population) and the Federal
and State government officials would occur.