9ja's Oracle

An article by  Chidiebere Nwachukwu  (A Human Rights Activist and Legal Practitioner based in Abuja) The man whose house is on fire does not go chasing after rats. Many people will say that the recent security incidents have exposed the rate of insecurity in Nigeria: the Niger delta militants, the kidnappings in the South-east and South-south, the Boko haram issue, the Jos crises, armed robbery attacks and other social unrest has not , for me, exposed the lapses in our security but has shown an  in-depth  revelation on the part of the government of the Federation’s inability to provide employment for the citizenry. Recent statistics(National Bureau of Statistics) has shown that more 40 million Nigerians are unemployed, and more than 4 million Nigerians under employed and the most shocking part of this report is that 90 percent of these figures are youths. Nigeria’s population is over 150 million, with about 65 million of this population being the youth population. It will b

Our leaders have explicitly failed the nation...this I know YOU! Yes YOU have failed the nation implicitly and/or explicitly...I know that too The result? What we have now as Nigerians. We are all part of the rot in one way or another... But the question is...what is next? The foolish take the easy route and hate the Nation. They see Nigeria as a failed project; Blame the rot on every other person but themselves; Talk incessantly about how bad things have become; Shout about how our Senators and Representatives waste our money Yet secretly nurse the intent of being members of the National Assembly... ...Not to change things, but to take their share of the "National cake"... Their ideology is simple: Nigeria is dead, let's bury her.... And today... They would be the ones with litanies of Nigeria's woes And not a word of encouragement or prayer. The Patriotic take the more difficult route. They acknowledge that things have gone wrong; They acknowledge that Nigeria is l