NIGERIAN
YOUTHS AND HUMAN VALUE SYSTEM
A.
NIGERIA SYSTEM AND HER YOUTHS RESPONSES TO IT
i.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Naturally, to feel useless is enough reason to be violent. According
to the United Nations UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Official Document;
Official Document;
Article
23
1.
Everyone has the right to work,
to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to
protection against unemployment.
2.
Everyone, without any
discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
3.
Everyone who works has the right
to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an
existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other
means of social protection.
4.
Everyone has the right to form
and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
It hurts to feel hopeless in your country. Notwithstanding, our
collective responses to issues are destructive. Two wrongs have never made one
right and it will never. Even if our government concludes that we are
irrelevant, rise up and surprise the world. You are a specimen for greatness;
let no one look down on your competence. Show the government that they need you
more than you need them.
What Ayemafrica is doing about this………
ii.
CONVENTIONAL CORRUPTION
Because of the freedom and high power back-up the corruption has
enjoyed in the land, youths have taking to various criminal acts in order to
avenge the pains inflicted on them by this national virus.
Responses are key factors to manage if we will overcome our
national security challenges. People are responding to obvious issues. But I
chose to be making impact.
The ministry of information and the NOA are disconnected from the
grass root. They are only talking to the elites who already know more than they
are saying. I belong to the grass root and I trust my eyes.
iii.
SYSTEMIC EGO AND PRIDE
The rate at which Nigerian youths look down on vocations that are
not physically colourful with disdain is alarming. Our training programs
revealed this. Young people will rather hang out broke and will even prefer
begging; to start something small with their own hand. And often time when they
see others trying to do something, they mock, criticize, look down on and
humiliate.
What Ayemafrica is doing about this……..
iv.
UNGUIDED LOVE FOR LUXURY
Today in Nigeria, young people can trade their life for luxury; BB,
ipad, Cars, Clothing and host of other material things. Bad as it is, if you do
not have these things, you are considered irrelevant. Why? What some young
people spend on this business of oppression is good enough to build a
worthwhile business.
Girls accept friendship or marriage proposals on these material
factors. So we now have young people intimidating and oppressing their fellow
youths with these material things. Some parents are also making matter worse by
showcasing their wealth through the purchase of these luxuries for their
children and thus turning their children to oppressing tools among their cliques.
What we do at Ayemafrica on this;…….. Building a systemic value
system into the mindset of the youths.
v.
NATIONAL DISREGARD FOR VALUE SYSTEM
How we treat ourselves is another major factor. Do the leaders
belief in their followers? How accessible are our leaders? How real are their
promises and agendas? Then, how are the followers responding to all these?
My personal experience shows that our leaders are not accessible.
Is this right?
Among the youths themselves, those who feel they are favoured look
down on the less privileged. They even chose who to greet, how to greet who
they chose to greet and whose greeting to return. All these are critical
factors capable of causing societal problem on the long term basis.
What Ayemafrica is doing about this……
How we respond to all these issues is relative and also is the
reason we are where we are today.
Our events;
· GRYBS – GRASSROOT YOUTHS BUSINESS SESSION
· BUSY HANDS – SKILLS TRAINING
· G-NYBS – GRASSROOT
YOUTHS BUSINESS NETWORKING SESSION
· DAILLY SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION
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