THE ROLES OF THE YOUTH IN NIGERIA'S POLITICAL CHAOS

Youths are the future leaders in any society. They are the baton for survival of any society. Youths in most civilized societies all over the world had in one way or the other made their ideology known in any current developments. The Nigerian youth contributions to ameliorating the present political dichotomy and chaos cannot be taken with a pinch of salt. 

The youths in Nigeria seems to be the ones complaining that things are not going on in Nigeria very well, and at the same time, they are the ones that don’t care of how government is run. What is being seen is that youths are interested in social media discussing irrelevant issues. When asked what idea they have on how to develop the country, most of them motioned that, ‘wetin concern me, na my father get government’.

The youth cannot continue in this odd method. It is high time that the youths stand up and say yes to the dearth of political looters and corrupt officials whether in the sacred or secular world; they should also make their voices known, such as the government taking the youths in appointments which is a dead practice in Nigeria.

Youths must stop sitting hand in hand with melancholy! It is time to act now.

RE: PDP GAINS FROM SARAKI'S POLITICAL DRAMA

APC displayed its peak of corruption when it promoted one of the ideologies of it ‘national chairman’ who has sworn never to allow Saraki, the senate president to remain in power. A close source indicated that Saraki was been witch-haunted by former Lagos State governor, Tinubu.

It is good to pose here that the political drama rocking the senate leadership is a big plus to the survival of the policies of the PDP. If Saraki is eventually suspended or removed, the PDP takes over the leadership of the house because her member is the deputy speaker in the person of Ike Ekweremadu.

CURBING EXAM MALPRACTICE IN NIGERIAN EXAMINATIONS

Students Who engaged in exam malpractice fueled by the Supervisor in Charge(WAEC GCE 2015 )

The growing rate of exam malpractice cannot be overemphasized, neither can it be underestimated. In the on going WAEC GCE 2015 exams, in a particular centers,  their are exam malpractice promiscuity. This is a situation where supervisors connive with the students, and he goes ahead to collect 1000 naira from each students, to grant them the go ahead to use their phones and other materials like textbooks.

Parents also are not helping matters,for example, in front of me on that fateful day of mathematics exams, a keke driver paid 2000 to a supervisor for the him to solve the answers and give it to the son. I begin to wonder if really the reading culture in Nigeria is not already dead. 

EDUCATIONAL CORRUPTION

Education is the most sensitive sector of the livelihood of any nation. Education can be divided into two major aspects, viz: 

a. formal education

b. informal education

Formal education is saddled with the responsibility of taking care of the needs of the child within the four walls of a classroom and its environment, while informal education takes care of the needed duties of a person within his her domestic environment, such as a girl being trained on sweeping the veranda in the morning, a boy taught how to cultivate the farm land, among others.

In today’s society, formal educational seems to have overshadowed informal method of education. Most parents due to their tight working schedules cannot meet up with the hour to hour care of their children, thus, the neglect of the child home trainings. This is not the theme of this write up. The purpose is to access the hike in corruption indices in Nigeria’s educational system.

The educational sector is being run by the Federal Ministry of Education. This ministry is the most corrupt of all the educational agencies in Nigeria. Yet, it pretends to be the custodians of future leaders. We are going to focus more on corruption in secondary schools.

Secondary schools today, especially federal unity schools, have been exploited by corrupt individuals in the civil service and the federal ministry of education. Some of the causes of corruption in secondary schools include:

1.   QUEST FOR PROMOTION:  Promotion to a new grade level which should come as and when due is not longer the order of the day. People bribe their way into some of the grade level they are, courtesy of the officials at the federal ministry of education. 

2.   TRANSFER:  Teachers nowadays liaise with corrupt officials at the ministry of education and their transfers are worked to better places. They are no longer voluntarily summiting themselves to environment they were initially posted to.

3.   POSITIONS: It is very appalling about the amount that teachers pay, especially those at the level of Deputy Directors (DD) for them to be posted to  good school as principal. In fact, data shows that millions are bribed to officials at the ministry so that their posting letter would come faster and to a good place.

The Solutions to the problem of corruption especially in the unity colleges with vilification of the Federal Ministry of Education include:

1.   Making sure that those in the helm of affairs of the Ministry are persons of proven integrity.

2.   Making sure that any teacher, notwithstanding if the person is a deputy director or even a director, caught in the act of bribing any official in the federal ministry of Education should be disgrace from the civil service and dismissed.

3.   CCTV cameras should be installed in strategic offices, where transactions could be monitored effectively.

When these factors are put in place Nigeria becomes a corrupt free place. Every teacher as well as civil servants should see themselves as custodians of morality watchdog of integrity.