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Most often it appears that most of our actions and inactions goes unnoticed by the majority of the populace all around us.

If you are into things that touches the lives of people in their number, well most times trust me it appears your labor goes unnoticed by people.

Some folks even complain to your face how what you are doing does not make sense. Well some two weeks ago I shared an insight into how to handle does kind of people.

Anything whatsoever

DOORS

We often learn life lessons in ways that seems most times absurd. But in as much as we still have breath in our nostrils, we will make mistakes and must be wise enough to choose to learn from them.

When a door gets shut against us, it brings much dejection

INCOMPLETE THOUGHT

Some peeps around you sometimes are just always funny in funny ways. 

Sometimes you are about to do some things you once conceived as noble ideas and just when you set out,

WHO IS TO BE BLAME?

Moral Decadence in Modern Day Youths

“Respect is Reciprocal” as the saying goes or should it be put as went, because it has now become a thing of the past, not because it is no longer being mentioned, but the emphasis on it seem to have been at its barest minimum. 

The people of the South West of Nigeria are known to be the most respectful sect in the nation, but over the years, it has become a difficulty for a Yoruba child to wake up in the morning and prostrate face flat on the ground to greet their parents or elders for the guys or completely kneel down for the girls.

Manners imbibed at home definitely have an impact on who a person is on the outside. 

One popular tradition in those days is the inability of children to start eating on the dining tables before their Dad start.

 Bringing that into the modern dinners or high class societies, you would not try eating until the convener of the dinner starts of give you the go ahead.

 Some people have mistaken some of such moves of impatience as part of modernization while it is simply moral decadence.

More of this is attributed to the dying cultures in Nigeria. 

A larger percentage of Nigerian youths do not know how to speak their native language even when they stay in the midst of their fellow natives.  

How would a child who is not necessitated at one point or the other to learn his/her language learn the cultures of his society? It has gotten so bad that majority of the modern day youths do not know where their ancestral fathers originated from. 

How long will this go on?

 How long will this decadence go on? 

A lot of abnormalities in our society have had their roots imbedded in the lack of home training.

As much as the children are to blame, majority of the blame falls on the parents.

 While some do not fancy teaching their children how a right thinking person should behave, so simply do not even bother creating the time to teach these lessons. 

Who then will these children learn other than from the majority (untrained youths). A lot have to be done in educating the over job-obsessed parents who have been the major contributors to the moral decadence in our society.

A lot can be done to curb this moral decadence called disrespect but the root cause which happen to be the home must be addressed. 

Cultural values must be preached in schools if parents refuse to perform their fundamental values, before we permanently loose our society to activities of the western world, which is in deep contrast to what every right thinking Nigerian is meant and brought up to follow.

WRITTEN BY : ORHERHE EJIRO

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EDUCATE US

If education is the key to a growing world, then school is the lock.

Lets take an holistic approach to the scenario of the neighbor next door, the child is very energetic, brilliant and adventurous.

Makes something we can ride on with car Boris and planks of wood. That child was exceptional. 

Looks for a burnt tyre gets the rings out and then makes something we can roll around with in the neighborhood. 

All kids shout with excitement and joy while playing around with these objects made out of a critically thinking mind.

Speaks and understands the indigenous languages very well, but alas when in the class room the teacher blows grammars that easily turns off his attention. 

Then the teacher refers to him as the dullest student in the class, does woefully in all courses except his indigenous language, arts and crafts.

From here,the debate of either using our indigenous languages in the class room  arise again.

For a long time education has been confused with schooling. 

Now that dude whose instances I just shared learned how to ride a bicycle and does it well than other kids in the neighborhood.

 His always desirous to learn new things. Then someone comes out and say something along the lines of 

" his destiny is to learn trades, let him abandon a formal education" .

But I am eager to always tell them he loves to learn new things, he learns pretty fast. That's a desire to be educated. Yet all I get is a snub.

The parents then looses hope in the vibrant kid because of the teachers comment.

Its time to give education a topmost priority. When you educate a man, you stop the spread of another evil.

 That guy or lady you liberate with an educated mind reduces the chances of the society having another suicide bomber or a terrorist.

Those kids you deny the right to education today either formally or informally might just be the ones to terrorize our territories tomorrow.

EDUCATE US, SAVE FUTURE GENENATION IS MY CRY.

Lets go a step higher. YES WE CAN.

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