{"id":11081,"date":"2023-01-14T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:06:25","slug":"youths-education-and-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11081","title":{"rendered":"Youth, Education And Fraud: Inevitable Confusion By Sikiru Kayode Emmanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Youths are significant<\/span><\/span> in every sphere of life. <\/span><\/span>They <\/span><\/span>are seen as strong, agile and fitted<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> being that <\/span><\/span>they <\/span><\/span>have <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>strength to achieve whatever they<\/span><\/span> set their mind at achieving. <\/span><\/span>Unfortunately<\/span><\/span>, the youths <\/span><\/span>of<\/span><\/span> today would rather channel<\/span><\/span> their strength to ac<\/span><\/span>tivities of doom that will eventually plunge<\/span><\/span> their <\/span><\/span>life into a lifelong abyss<\/span><\/span> and leave <\/span><\/span>them <\/span><\/span>frustrated, dried and wounded<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They <\/span><\/span>have the age advantage and the promising future to be the <\/span><\/span>leader<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> of tomorrow<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> but they have started e<\/span><\/span>ngaging in activities that render one <\/span><\/span>irrelevant and irrespo<\/span><\/span>nsible in the society. It was never recorded in time and space that nationalists <\/span><\/span>like: <\/span><\/span>Obafemi<\/span><\/span>Awolowo<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Nnamdi<\/span><\/span> Azikwe<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Ahmadu<\/span><\/span> Bello<\/span><\/span>, etc. started their youth days with any fraudulent activity. Instead, we were told of <\/span><\/span>how they strived to achieve <\/span><\/span>education <\/span><\/span>at all cost in order to liberate their people from<\/span><\/span> ignorance<\/span><\/span> and bring independence to the Nation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In our soc<\/span><\/span>iety today, Education is variably considered as an option amongst various means<\/span><\/span>. The popular say<\/span><\/span>ing<\/span><\/span> that<\/span><\/span>\u201cEducation is th<\/span><\/span>e best legacy\u201d has been rephrased<\/span><\/span> by<\/span><\/span> the present-day <\/span><\/span>youth<\/span><\/span>s into<\/span><\/span> \u201cEducation is a scam\u201d<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Whereas<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>fraud<\/span><\/span>ulent<\/span><\/span> act<\/span><\/span>ivities have been pushed into crescendo<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>They downplay the many adverse consequences that will eventually accompany the<\/span><\/span> fraud committed by anyone in the society and embrace the act without <\/span><\/span>consciousness<\/span><\/span>. The<\/span><\/span>y shunned the<\/span><\/span> clear signal that fraud brings<\/span><\/span> on th<\/span><\/span>e reputation and <\/span><\/span>honour<\/span><\/span> of the<\/span><\/span>ir<\/span><\/span>family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An <\/span><\/span>average teen<\/span><\/span> in a University is not interested in a reading group but will not hesitate to have a sleepless night with group of guys in other to get <\/span><\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/span>update<\/span><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/span> that enable them <\/span><\/span>to dupe a client. They <\/span><\/span>have<\/span><\/span> no interest in group reading but call themselves names like \u2018<\/span><\/span>my <\/span><\/span>gee<\/span><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/span>senior gee\u2019<\/span><\/span> which signify their <\/span><\/span>expert<\/span><\/span>ness or hierarchy<\/span><\/span> in fraud<\/span><\/span>ulent<\/span><\/span> activities. Names like scholar, professor, <\/span><\/span>efiwe<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>igiwe<\/span><\/span> are not constant among tertiary students<\/span><\/span>anymore<\/span><\/span>. The value for Education is gradually <\/span><\/span>turning into insipidity<\/span><\/span> among<\/span><\/span>st<\/span><\/span> th<\/span><\/span>e so call<\/span><\/span>ed<\/span><\/span> \u201c<\/span><\/span>glory of tomorrow<\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Crime rate<\/span><\/span>is alarming<\/span><\/span> these days<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>fraud <\/span><\/span>has eaten<\/span><\/span> deep into our core value.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They<\/span><\/span> view<\/span><\/span> Education as a <\/span><\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>play to be acted on a<\/span><\/span> stage<\/span><\/span> by<\/span><\/span>nonchalant characters whom will mock the seriousness in the term<\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span> through<\/span><\/span> their attitude and ac<\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ion<\/span><\/span>. The future of our youths<\/span><\/span>is at stake with<\/span><\/span> the direction in which things are heading. A disdainful<\/span><\/span> argument among<\/span><\/span>st<\/span><\/span> some youth<\/span><\/span>s of our generation<\/span><\/span> is that Education do<\/span><\/span>es<\/span><\/span> not liberate one from poverty while <\/span><\/span>fraud will liberate one<\/span><\/span> from misery.<\/span><\/span> Is this not an inevitable confusion? Is this thought and action not a looming doom?<\/span><\/span> Our society celebrate young boys<\/span><\/span> probably at the age of 25,20,18 years<\/span><\/span> when they ride exotic cars<\/span><\/span>, drink expensive wines, sleep around with young ladies <\/span><\/span>and spend lavishly <\/span><\/span>on mundane things. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Engaging in fraud is like hiding behind a finger which is a<\/span><\/span>bsolutely impossible to achieve, a popular proverb says \u201cAll day for the thieves one day for the owner\u201d the tentacle of law and justice will definitely catc<\/span><\/span>h up with any one engaging in fraudulent <\/span><\/span>act<\/span><\/span>ivities<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The best way to eradicate or revise this inevitable confusion is <\/span><\/span>to place more value on Education and increase the pace of discipline among the youth. Parent should buckle up in t<\/span><\/span>heir parenting responsibilities and shun any appearance of fraud from their children.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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SIKIRU KAYODE EMMANUEL<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Youths are significant in every sphere of life. They are seen as strong, agile and fitted, being that they have the strength to achieve whatever they set their mind at achieving. Unfortunately, the youths of today would rather channel their strength to activities of doom that will eventually plunge their life into a lifelong abyss and leave them frustrated, dried and wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[456,73,3634],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-education","tag-fraud","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11083,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions\/11083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}