ASABA/Nigeria: It had been stated that unlike the dreams of the young, and the now growing ups, whose dreams is focused on abstentious living, with mostly flash and exotic cars of today without evidence of legitimate work, in years past, the dream of the average Nigeria youth between the ages of 16 to 19 was how to gain admission into one of the Nigeria universities.
This revelation was made by Engr. Philip Chukwumah Ugbomah, the Managing Director/CEO of CPU Construction LLT Nigeria Limited, and Chairman of CPU Foundation, also Special Assistant, Project Monitoring to the Governor of Delta State in a chart with the some Journalists in Asaba recently, on the state of the Nigerian youths, and the future of the country.
Ugbomah, lamented that the focus of many youths towards life today is much on how to acquire wealth without preparing for it, especially through formal education.
While not denouncing the idea of informal learning, he stated that the trend on how to quickly get rich, live in a big house, with flash cars had dominated the mindsets of the youths that it will greatly affect the country in the future if not quickly checked, through strong social orientation.
“My generation, gaining admission into University was the biggest pursuit at age 16/19, these days Benz is now the goal, we need a strong societal orientation.”
He stated that the time for the social orientation is now, in order to check the downward trend in which many of the Nigerian youths had fallen of late, with high rate of young school age avoiding to further their education.
Engr. Ugbomah, who is a well know youth supporter in Delta state through different youth programmes in the area of sport competitions, entrepreneurial development, scholarship to the needy, said he will continue to support those who are ready to develop themselves academically, and in other areas of endeavour that will position the person for a better tomorrow.
He advised that parents should do more to help their wards, and the youths around them to jettison the get rich quick syndromes, as it had greatly painted the country in many bad light.
“The entire society will have to be involved in this value reorientation, including the parents and guardians. Everyone of us have to start doing something to correct this trend.” He concluded.
