Youthfulperspectives

So I and one of my buddies were having this conversation on phone and he was telling me about some things going on in his life and what stuck was when he mentioned ‘Post NYSC Depression’. Advised me to enjoy my service year while it lasts, since I was still a Corper. But honestly, every single day I think about my life after service and what it is going to be like. I’m sure not everyone goes through this phase of depression but there are others that do and I don’t hope to go through that. I have a plan of where I wanna be in the next 5-10 years but right now I don’t have the resources and the qualifications needed for that attainment yet. So most of the time I’m faced with the question, how do I go about this? How do I get the money to do this? What should I be doing to gather resources to attain my dreams? For someone like me that isn’t business oriented, I get so fearful and worried. I see a lot of young people making headway with their skills and it feels like I’m lagging behind. So...

Ever since Nigeria started its own version of democracy, right from the time of the man on the hilltop mansion to the one who initiated the idea of amnesty, the country has had to battle with all sorts of civil unrest. From fighters for the emancipation for the Niger delta to the bloodthirsty ones in the north east that have been at logger heads with education and everything it represents, for about a decade now.  Herdsmen clashes, Communal clashes between minority tribal groups, and occasional disturbances of small armed groups down south, all seems to serve as pointers to the fact that maybe the government itself is handicapped in dealing with insurgency in all the forms it has reared its head. Threatening to disrupt the Nigerian Project, if there is still something like that.  Different methods of engagement have been deployed all to no avail. Now more than ever, the threats faced by the country seems to be on the increase. Back to the brief picture of the transition of gov...