NIGERIAN YOUTHS NOT LEADERS OF TOMORROW, BUT READERS OF TODAY - YUSUF ALHAJI YUSUF Every nation attach a significant importance to the growth and development to its youths. The deliberate determination of a nation to upgrade the lives of its youths must be a major concern of the leaders. In Nigeria today, reverse is the case. Nigerian leaders do not show concern for the well being of its entire citizenry. The future leaders are the youths, who are expected to serve, protect and rule the nation. They hardly are celebrated and cherished. Every youths grow up with the belief that they are the leaders of tomorrow, as a promise of hope and some sorts of assurance of a better tomorrow. In Nigeria, the government has been designed by only the leaders of previous years; rule by the geriatric. Down the memory lane, when we were in primary school, we all chanted the song that "we are the leaders of tomorrow", but it was a fantasy and fallacy stage; only the gullible wil