So some days ago, I made a post titled "Majoring on the Minor. It was about the importance of education and how how "big" companies prefer sponsoring shows and non academic competitions to sponsoring education or academic programs. Well a friend of mine had an experience in Lagos sometimes in January.
Hear him;
After a long time out, I found my way to Ketu bus stop where I had a meeting with some of my team mates and a partner towards our Skill Acquisition Project coming up in April. On getting to the popular Alapere bus park(Ọjà Ọba market), I saw something disgusting, annoying and shaming! I saw many onlookers, both old and young standing on and off the pedestrian bridge, and I was curious to see what was going on. What did I see? Young children of junior Secondary School(Precisely, Ikosi Junior High School), dancing to devilish and illicit songs, right in my spirit, I was terribly angry.
Instead of 'Fresh Yo' to help use their brand to promote education, charity, purity and even leadership excellence among our children, it is a shame that they are permitting and encouraging our children to be irresponsible. These are children who should have been home by now assisting their parents in house chores, these are children who should have been home reading and preparing for tomorrow in school! I have always seen youth indulge in this public dancing, I have never waited to watch them, neither do I encourage or liked it, but seeing children indulge in it is the highlight of how bad our nation is. Do we even have any national body that controls all these public advert and marketing? It is so sad!
I thought I had seen mad dance, till I saw these children (some were on the stage, while others were down the stage) dancing to the controversial Olamide song "Science Student" and as if that wasn't all, I saw children running to hold pillars, busses, and some even holding their opposite gender by their buttocks all because of "One corner" song 😭😭😭! I'm really sad, but who do we blame? Even big organizations are sponsoring devilish and pornography events such as "Big Brother Nigeria" and some youth will waste their time watching, analyzing and arguing about it, when we all should crave for the scrapping of such events for programs that empowers, develops and improve our lives in all forms and also help to improve our economy.
It might be so sad, but some of us will not give up! We will continue though struggling and striving to contribute our own little quota to make Nigeria a better!
I am Sir.
Gbam! I really agree with this. But I am convinced that we need to change something about our educational system to catch up with the global flattening impact of the internet.
Our educational system is sick. God help us bro. But we need to help ourselves first.