Education in Nigeria: The Key to Hold Certificates or Way to Succeed in Life? -By Oyekanmi Abdul Warith

Education is the key to success in everybody’s mind, but the powerful ones in my country have changed the good melody of that song to that of tyranny. The graduates in my country are now seen as the inventors of some evil acts in my country. First-class graduates are now serving non-graduates but well figured in person in the governmental sector of my country, this is telling us that school is just a way to know, not a way to succeed anymore.

Educated people are the ones you will find on the tricycles, speaking English fluently with a good certificate but the non-educated ones who are not sound in education will be found in the offices, controlling even the first-class and people who know more than they do. This sector of my country is like the bald head trying to beautify his hair.

My country gives admission to many people, produces many first-class students but has the highest population of unemployed graduates. So sad, this is not motivation but total depression. We all know how parents hustle to make their children reach the topmost in life through education, but all their wishes are turned off at the moment they want it on.

Parents feed their children to school so that the particular child could feed them more at the end of his or her graduation but this opinion is no more allowed in my own country, the parents will continue the feeding even after the graduation of such child in the University or other tertiary institutions.

Every citizen of my country knows how youths lose their lives in the cause of serving their fatherland. Are we to serve our fatherland with our blood? Some people wish to help the whole country with the little knowledge they have but the country they find themselves in turned them into what they are today.

The students (readers) are the leaders of tomorrow but these students are the ones that the politicians are using as agents of destruction in every election. Whose fault? It is not the students’ fault. They have been brainwashed that why will they live without money to cater for their family and their neighbours? So, they deceive them with some amount of money to work for their own interests.

Destruction of feelings for education is what the superior ones in my country are doing to the education sector which can destroy the life of the victims. Educated youth with no work to promote his family will later end up in any evil means to feed his family.

Students should be wise now and think well that education in this our country is second hand but self-dependent is the key to success. That means students should not depend much on government works. Go into entrepreneurship and depend on your own work to feed your own family and create a brighter future for your own generations.

Students should reason positively and stop being agents of destruction to every beautiful thing in their societies. They should learn to support each other in any way to tell the leaders about their wrong deeds, they should be their fellows’ mouthpiece and not for the benefit of themselves alone.

Should Hummi’s pride relax here as he writes with the edge of the sword against unemployment and the threats on students in the country called Nigeria?

Abdul Warith is a 100 level student of English Language, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.