“Ekekwe, we have been looking for you this week but no one could locate you. Bordeaux Telecoms came here asking for our best student. I got an exemption for the written test and interview for you. And here is your offer letter.” That was my Head of Department in FUTO, Prof SOE Ogbogu. Right there, he gave me an offer, nine months to my graduation. It was a great job with a car/driver, furnished apartment and opportunity to work with Canadian expats. (I was away to Onitsha and Aba on business to get advertisers for my magazine, FUTO Bubbles)
Three months later, it was time for Schlumberger. Then a month to go, it was time for FUTO itself; Prof ENC Okafor was clear: “ I have taught you, you need to be in FUTO to teach my children”. But outside, banks were renting big halls, hiring new graduates in thousands. Nigeria was booming and it was amazing.
Graduate with a decent degree, and within 2 months of NYSC, you would be working. We bought cars, rented nice apartments, and began big. Our minds were lifted because Nigeria was working.
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But that Nigeria is no more available for young people. I write this with pain because it does not need to be that way. But tomorrow offers an opportunity to reset – and that means you have a decision to make: #vote for freedom from punted economic FUTURE, unleashing abundance in the land, at local, state and federal levels, OR, unfortunately, renew a 4-year contract to remain in economic bondage and stagnation. You have the power and you decide.
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We have prayed and the corresponding action to our prayers is making sure we cast our votes starting tomorrow 25th February, 2023. #Election2023
For the first time ever in Nigeria we have a presidential candidate who can discuss the economy of Nigeria out of understanding not scripts.
Nigeria is blessed. God has shown us mercy.
OBIdient is better than sacrifice. Let every well meaning Nigerian OBIdiently go out to vote.
It is a civic duty. Please, mine is certain by grace of God and do perform yours.
May God bless Nigeria.
Nigeria told her kids to go to school and get education, the latter agreed, but the former didn’t have any plan, so as people were graduating, many of the companies they were hoping to work in were closing down. Entrepreneurship was afterthought, because nothing in the curriculum we used in the university prepared anyone for Entrepreneurship, they were all modelled for you to graduate and get a job.
For any society to survive and thrive, Common Good must be prioritized and elevated above personal benefits. It is not enough to wish Nigeria well and condemn political actors, yet in your innermost heart, you seek the very things that benefit you above everyone else.
The brand of politics most people promote here is both debasing and vile, but in their twisted minds they tell you that all politicians are the same, without taking responsibility for how their selfishness promotes such absurd practices.
Kids will sleep with empty stomachs, your fellow compatriots will remain refugees in their own country, living in IDP camps; some parts in the southeast won’t vote tomorrow, because non state actors have commanded helpless people to remain at home. For some others, as long as they are not directly affected, Nigeria can go to hell.