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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

ALMAJIRI IS NOT MEANT FOR ALMS BEGGING. By YUSUF ALHAJI YUSUF     Almajiri is a Hausa word that refers to itinerant children in search of knowledge or Quranic education. It is a system of Islamic education practiced in northern Nigeria. Also, it was derived from an Arabic word, rendered "Al-Muhajirun" meaning a person who leaves his home in search of Islamic knowledge.     During the precolonial era, Almajiri was formerly called Tsangaya. It was established under the Kanem Borno Empire, one of the oldest ruling empires in the world extending from the frontiers of northern Nigeria across the Chadian region up to the borders of Libya.     It was established as an organized and comprehensive system of education for learning Islamic principles, values, jurisprudence and ultimately the recitation and memorization of the glorious Quran which became Islamic learning centres in all Muslim communities.     It is a worthy of note that the system that was hitherto organize

WHAT A NATION!!! Not that we came to birth during the wrong time but to the wrong NATION, A Nation where the leaders turn her dilemma to a means of embezzlement, Yeah we are locked down but what are we gonna eat?? Yeah we are locked down how are the children gonna learn?? Yeah we are locked down even givers don't have anything to give beggers, Yes!! Radio lessons for them how many people are aware?? Yes!! social distance is a cure but does that stop us from worships, Worships that are meant for us to ask the only LISTENER we've got, To help us find long lasting solutions to this problem, Is the increasement of the days really the solutions?? The lockdown has turned to something else in our Nation,  It's far beyond COVID 19 but Hunger 19, Where are those donations going to? Inside whose pocket?  It's no longer prevention but a source for their embezzlement, COVID 19 giving room for corruption 19 and embezzlement 19, Even the so called isolation centre has been turned to

               SCOURGE OF       UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA.  By YUSUF A YUSUF Every successful nation attaches more 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, but in Nigeria, reverse seems to be the case. The issue of unemployment in Nigeria is one of the major hindrances affecting Nigeria's economy. It occurs when the agile youths who are ready to work could not secure a truly satisfying job for a long time; this has been persistent for a period of time in Nigeria. Meanwhile, youth unemployment is devastating to both the individual and the nation as a whole psychologically and economically. It has become every youth's nightmare, having to undergo a lot of stress by roaming the street in an attempt to secure a job without any certainty. Those who could secure job in private sectors receive poor salary which cannot sustain them beyond feeding. In the same

"ONE DAY THE POOR WILL HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO EAT BUT THE RICH." The Scourge Of Poverty. Poverty is a degradation of human dignity and the inability to make wishful choices and get opportunities. Poverty is a major source of worry all over the world and it has been a major developmental problem in Africa and Nigeria in particular. Poverty, correlated to underdevelopment, ignorance, retarded growth and  illiteracy. Poverty remains a scourge of society as a threat to the progress and well being of humanity. The problem of poverty is so enormous that its reduction or elimination has become the common goal of all states and nations. Poverty does not based on lack of one thing but many different interrelated factors and it's more than the lack of income and resources to ensure a sustainable livelihood. Its manifestation include hunger, malnutrition, limited access to education, social discrimination, exclusion as well as lack of participation in decision-making and othe