Hello Wonderful children!
Hello kids out there! How was your week? Sure you are having a cool Sunday. You are the future, you are the real hope, true transformation and the change that the world is waiting for. How do you become this? Face your studies to get the necessary wisdom, knowledge and pray for peace in Nigeria for that ambition to be possible.
Dont ever join them to sing the song of division in your own country. Always remind yourselves that there is no excuse for failure. You are the change. You are the future. Have a great week.About a year ago while introducing Newspaper In Education (NIE) to some schools in Lagos State,
I asked a question, ‘What do you like to become in future?’ A young boy of about 13 years answered and said, ‘I want to be a politician’. His reason was that he wanted to be rich. To the little boy, being a politician is the most lucrative career.
What does this tell our politicians out there? Tomorrow’s leaders are watching and are already dancing to the tune of your drum. One begins to wonder if the money that is circulating in this country in the name of campaign is magic money and not from Nigeria’s treasury?
It makes one sick seeing many supposed role models that the young ones are looking up to being dragged into politics because of money. No wonder counselors now counsel our young ones to let God be their role model. What will our politicians tell the young ones looking up to them tomorrow if their propaganda boomerangs?
The deadliest aspect of the matter now is that leadership in this country is tagged, ‘Turn by Turn Leadership’. This means somebody will be there and embezzle money as much as he or she can and others working under him will not say anything but will also wait for his or her turn to embezzle.
It makes one sick seeing many supposed role models that the young ones are looking up to being dragged into politics because of money. No wonder counselors now counsel our young ones to let God be their role model. What will our politicians tell the young ones looking up to them tomorrow if their propaganda boomerangs?
The deadliest aspect of the matter now is that leadership in this country is tagged, ‘Turn by Turn Leadership’. This means somebody will be there and embezzle money as much as he or she can and others working under him will not say anything but will also wait for his or her turn to embezzle.
Where is the fear of God? With this type of behaviour, the poor will continue to remain poor while the rich will continue to be rich. No wonder during the last World Mental Health Day, statistics showed that 64 million out of 180 million Nigerians are going through mental illness because everything that would cause mental illness is on the increase in Nigeria. Poverty is on the increase, hopelessness is on the increase, insecurity is on the increase.
I believe that somebody with the right state of mind will not steal money meant for the welfare of Nigerians to keep for his or her children and generations unborn. Someone with the right state of mind will not want to build houses in all the states of the nation not minding that some people are sleeping under the bridge.
I believe that somebody with the right state of mind will not steal money meant for the welfare of Nigerians to keep for his or her children and generations unborn. Someone with the right state of mind will not want to build houses in all the states of the nation not minding that some people are sleeping under the bridge.
Someone with right state of mind will not want to buy armoured cars that can only protect few people not minding that millions of Nigerians are dying of hunger. Propaganda is all over the place and children are watching. Information gets to children through so many means and that can cause pressure in any form.
To our great future leaders, don’t worry about what you are seeing and hearing now. If our leaders refuse to show good example of leadership, your weapon to correct it is not in anything but to face your studies as you know that no illiterate person can take that position of leadership again in this country. There is no excuse for failure if you know you want to be the agent of change in Nigeria.
To our great future leaders, don’t worry about what you are seeing and hearing now. If our leaders refuse to show good example of leadership, your weapon to correct it is not in anything but to face your studies as you know that no illiterate person can take that position of leadership again in this country. There is no excuse for failure if you know you want to be the agent of change in Nigeria.
Source: Vanguard
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