THE FUTURE OF THE NIGERIAN CHILD.

If you are invited to the birthday celebration of a man whose house is an abode for terrorism and over 200 of his children are presently abducted.What question would you ask?


Myths about a Nigerian are She is docile ,her spirit is a tractable one ,her passivity is pathological and she is always hoping for a better tomorrow .We are at cross roads where our present integrity is questioned.our systems are falling ,policies failing ,structures crumbling,institutions failing yet all we do is to keep looking.We often forget that decay is a natural process,we keep getting worse until we intervene.There was a time terrorism was as far as Pakistan now it's as close as Abuja,a loud dull noise used to mean thunder now it's a bomb blast.We have been driven to the border of the permissible infact to the very edge of the cliff.

One good question to ask at this moment is What does the future hold for the Nigerian Child.Can our Systems and institution deliver a good future for the Nigerian Child.Follow me closely as I unveil the excerpts of a letter I wrote to my unborn child.
Dear Temiloluwa,I write this piece to you with disappointment ,first as a Nigerian and also because you will be born a Nigerian. it will shock you to hear you may die before delivery and I may even lose my wife ,your mother to child birth just because health workers may be on strike.u will surely bear my name but your christening might be postponed because  of street protests and pastor Femi may not be able to find his way here.I place so much value on good quality education but unfortunately in your university days u may be locked out of school because of assu strikes.these and many more are the possibilities that will rock your world as a Nigerian.You may see a whole of negativity in my speech but you will agree with me that we will be dwelling in a state of abuse and folly if we cast our children's future on our current realities.

The importance of good quality education , maximum security ,good health facilities,strict child protection laws cannot be overemphasized. These things should be institutionalized.But as good as these things are,they are not the critical success factor.Total dependence on institutions and system is a road to failure.if u have a virgin land and you want a garden you plant it ,if you want weed and thorns on it,all you need to do is to do nothing ,Natural systems are just programmed to give you thorns.At the end,what the future of the holds for each Nigerian child is the 'You' factor which I call the critical success factor.
Real value is not in what the system offers it is in what you make out of it.This was the message I was conveying to my unborn child that no matter what negativity or collapse he sees it's not an excuse for failure.the future of the Nigerian child does not depend on how old Nigeria ,it's not dependent on how much volume of corruption he sees around.no matter how dry the land may be the coconut still finds it water.we need to start imbibing the culture of independence in the Nigerian Child.If we set our focus on this,good systems ,institutions ,structures will be established.then the content of my child's letter to his child will not be the same as mine because the future will no be debatable.

Finally,if I am given the opportunity to say just three words to a Nigerian Child on what the future holds.ill say it's about you ,if just two words I'll say it's you ,if just one word il grab the child pull his ears and say YOU. I pray the child understands.