Nigeria: A Nation’s Planlessness Is Wasting Away Youth Lives

By Olugbenga Ogunmoyela

In recent months, it should have become very clear to every discerning mind that almost every family must be sharing in the present burden of our youths, many thousands of who have been “sitting at home” some for upwards of close to two years or more after graduation, without being able to mobilise for the National Youth Service Corps Scheme. There is seeming confusion in the land and no one seems to care; no one sees the social and health dangers that are looming in this national burden.

For example, I have seen a number of brilliant young minds idling away, waiting for NYSC mobilisation. I have a very brilliant nephew who studied Applied Mathematics with Statistics in one of our Universities and graduated with a First Class Honours and has not been called up for over one year for NYSC and yet cannot be gainfully engaged or employed because of the archaic law that prohibits our graduates from being employed without the NYSC Certificate.

Forgery: Kemi Adeosun’s Disdain Without Remorse

By Sufuyan Ojeifo

From the way the federal government is hedging over the saga of the forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, it is clear that the felony is enjoying condonation by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari; otherwise, the matter should have been decisively dealt with by now and consigned to the dustbin of history. Or, put differently, Adeosun should have, by now, become history. 

*Kemi Adeosun 

But this is not the situation. The minister, who is in the eye of the storm, has taken refuge in feigned meekness and has, in fact, continued to benefit from the paraphernalia of her office, perhaps, in the hope that the matter will die naturally. This is not only nauseating but also treating Nigerians with disdain. It is obvious that the administration is acting true to type, either mollycoddling wrongdoers or vacillating before giving them the boot.  Adeosun is, without a doubt, being pampered; this is, perhaps, the reason she has not deemed it fit to show remorse.