Arace of people is like an Individual man, until it uses its own talents, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfil itself" Malcolm X. The Nigerian Youth today is a character of pathos. Many of them beg in the streets for food. They go from one car to another begging for alms with unkempt hair and tattered clothes. The schools they attend for those who do, are without teachers and appropriate facilities. They look at tomorrow and see nothing but a dark void. The nation’s foreign reserve has collapsed and our currency is greatly devalued. Our purchasing power is weak and education, especially tertiary education, is really feeling the brunt. Laboratories are no longer equipped up to standard; the poor economic base has resulted in disastrous spiral inflation to the extent that ordinary books and stationeries are no more within the reach of the students, teachers and even administrators. Libraries are empty. Computer science departments have no computers! Where they are available, more than forty students are attached to only one for practices. What type of scientists, engineers and technologists are we producing? This economic problem has really crippled the nation’s budgetary allocation. For example, N150 billion of today was only N1 billion in 1983.

The question now is: Why should Nigerian youths be so much interested in solving the Nigeria-problem. The youth marks the stage of the highest release of the physical, spiritual and creative energy among the homosapiens.

For examples, Isaac Newton was 24 years old when he discovered the gravitational theory of the planet; Albert Einstein was 24 years old when he discovered the special theory of relativity; Maxwell was 24 years when he came out with electro magnetic theory of light; Rutherfold was 27 years and Frederick Soddy 22 years when they both propounded the modern theory of radioactivity; Bohr was 28 years when he came out with the model of atom; Jesus Christ at 12 years was already engaging elders in intellectual discourse in and out of the temple, while Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) at 12 years was generally known as AL-AMEN – the trustworthy. Nigeria now cries out for her own creative youth. Today, In Nigeria, the rate at which the youths are hit by societal ills- prostitution, crime, cultism, vandalism, unemployment, ethnic militia and so on-Indicates a plunged future for our tomorrow leaders.

The trouble with Nigeria is indeed the failure of leadership. Our leaders and elders have beclouded our tomorrow but as from today, the youths shall assume their rightful position in the reigns of power from the elders that have misled us.

From this day henceforth, politics is for the young: strictly not for the elderly. This system of living entirely for money, thinking of money, and living a blind rat-in-a-cage life has to go. The scene has to change. If not because of the good politicians and those old people that are nice and caring, If not because of the rich that are responsible, I would have pronounced that; all those lying politicians, the rich, the people who have the power to say this and that, and make it stick, should have to go. The old who lives on dividends should have to go. Anyone over 65 years of age is much waste of food. They too have to go. Imagine! No more old men, no more old women cluttering up the street: just the young, what a marvellous nation there would be. But this cannot come to pass because of the good ones among these categories of people. For those people that might say that the youths do not have enough experience lead our nation, I want to ask them: What has the age of Methuselah to do with the wisdom of Solomon?

Lastly, Naiwu Osahon in 1972 had a piece of advice for our youth today. According to him, "our youths are too passive and self satisfied. We have so much wrong with our society, so much corruption, misery, suffering, poverty, ethnic oppression. Our youths should be raising hell and burning for attention. The youths like the free press, should be the mouthpiece of the people; the check on corrupt and seemingly impregnable elite stronghold. Our youths must organise themselves to be heard. They must be adventurous and cycle around the world; climb the highest mountains; walk to the Antarctic; have a definite ideological commitment that has nothing to do with money... Some of the most fulfilled and complete people in the world today are artists and scientists who have contributed to the worth of human lives through their intentions. ..Our youths must grow out of their shells and go out to win the world".

To this goal, we must all devote our lives; if need be, for this cause, we must be prepared to die.