MY STORY, GROWING UP WITH A DISABILITY: WHAT EXCLUSION MEANS TO ME
People can be so unbelievably cruel to others with disabilities, and what’s surprising is that some adults act with less sensitivity to their situations than a child who didn’t understand the situation or even know better would have acted! I went to the bank to get my BVN like everyone else, I assumed I would be attended to outside, in the car park as usual since I couldn’t navigate the entrance. Instead I was told their machi
KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ENOUGH
Unemployment is gradually becoming the order of the day in Nigeria as a result of the quest for white collar jobs. There are over ten million unemployed graduates roaming the streets, prone to crime almost hopeless. This demographic finding portends challenges and opportunities. The challenges are economic and social, both are highly connected.
I THINK
I don’t know about you but many people take thinking for granted because they see it as a natural function of life. I don’t personally because I think intentionally.
Our Case Is Not Different
Imagine sitting in an examination hall blank on what to write. Then suddenly your colleagues answer paper flips and you see answers that triggers your memory. Every state in Nigeria is in an examination hall and needs memory triggers to work effectively most times.
SEXUAL PREDATORS
I understood then the hush that surrounds rape in Nigeria, why most ladies, young girls and children keep mute and die in silence for fear of being ostracized. Lest you forget, even married women are victims of rape by their husbands, girls are victims of rape from their fathers. Society makes you look not accepted, not liked and out of favour once you make your plight public.........
The Power of Questions
We need to stop conversations that divide us from each other and create conflict in the society. Instead we need to use conversations to rediscover and redefine our common good especially as it relates to youth issues. "Words create worlds" and we need to use our conversations to build a better future for us.................
Pushed to the wall.
I am not in any way in support of raising a finger at a woman.I consider it barbaric.In fact, only a mentally disabled man will beat and beat his wife at the slightest provocation. Having said the above, and with a thread on Nairaland about her friend that was always receiving the beating of her life from her husband, the story of my step brother came to my mind.Before my brother got married...............
Career Counselling;Brightening Your Future
The issue of Career Guide and Counselling, because of its importance, has always remained an integral part of any educational system. The Nigeria’s setting is not an exception. Hence, the sustained interest and concern it usually generates among students, would-be students and others who are wary of their future. Often times in choosing a career, students and would-be students could be influenced by.........
The Tyranny of Oil
Oil! Quite simple it sounds.Just a three letter word,but it wields such telling powers that the rich and the poor,the mighty and the mightless, the big and the tiny,and even the good and the evil,put their trust in it.Of a truth,oil is a proud and arrogant commodity.See the power and prestige oil has conferred on Akwa Ibom State,a state which.........
10PERCENT4YOUTHS Addressing High Youth Unemployment
Nigeria is currently confronted with a massive unemployment crisis. Hundreds of thousands of university graduates are roaming the streets without jobs. The rate of youth unemployment in the country is alarming. According to the “2012 National Baseline Youth Survey Report†54 per cent of Nigerian youths were unemployed in 2012. Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Statistics shows that Nigeria has a youth population.....
The Call for greater investments in youths
The challenges of growing youth employment rate is alarming increasing with latest jobless figures showing that 12.6 percent of young people or some 75 million youths are out of work. The need for increased investments in youths is paramount especially in Africa where .......