Let's Talk About Nigeria (Using NYSC as a Case Study).

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My dear country Nigeria, how I love to uphold the works of your heroes past. She is a nation of many tribes with diverse languages and beliefs.

Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba are the main three tribes that make up Nigeria, a giant in its continent, Africa.

Blessed with mineral resources meant for building and developing its citizens but lacking the effective way to channel these blessings in the right way.

On the 22nd of May 1973, under the reign of a great leader, General Yakubu Gowon NYSC (National Youth Service Corps) was created on three legs.

Firstly, to reconstruct. Secondly, to reconcile. And lastly, to rebuild the country after the Nigeria civil war.

To reconstruct the damages the civil war perpetuated. To make peace among the people of different cultures and beliefs, and to rebuild the nation economically, politically, and so on.

What a great scheme! As a beneficiary, still enjoying the dividends of this scheme, I give a Packard parade to the Generals who made it a reality.

Permission to relax me, sir,

Let's proceed, if you ask me, the aim of this scheme was mind-blowing. But my question is how can the youth of a country of about a 200millions citizens stand to reconstruct, rebuild and reconcile my country with this scheme standing on 'three legs'. That's the error. And am writing to call the attention of our leader to it.

My co-corps member and I were been paid 78.76 USD monthly as an allowance as a reward for sowing out a year after schooling for rebuilding, reconstructing, and reconciling my country. It's so sad. The cost of living in this part of the world we found ourselves in is so alarming. I can boldly submit to you that even the '33k allawee' as we used to call the monthly 78.76 USD is not enough for feeding, not to talk of standing on it to bring to pass the wishes of our leaders.

NYSC is a platform where youths trained to become Engineers, Bankers, Lawyers will end up wasting a whole year teaching primary and secondary school students how to read and write. What a waste of time and a youthful strength which leads to a waste of glory. "The glory of the youth is in their strength" when channeled appropriately.

Take, for example, a corps member trained as an engineer serving in the military barrack as a command children corps member as a teacher. Tell me, what knowledge will he/she pass to the children. He or she can not be at his or her best because he or she is not wired to be a primary school teacher. He or she will even create a problem in the life of those children.

That's why youths who are meant to solve society's problems added up to her problems after completing their compulsory one year service to their fatherland.

These abnormalities need to be changed.

The youths need to be educationally and financially empowered during their one-year service as corps members to the fatherland. After NYSC it's always a big problem for youth to know and decide what to use the rest of their life for, what area to channel their God-given strength to be a glory to them and their nation.

This is a wake-up call to Nigerian leaders to restructure and redesign the steps to achieve those wonderful aims and objectives of NYSC.

I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I DELIGHT IN ITS GREATNESS.

Am ONTB.