Iam Simeon

"Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an  #education"_Atiku Abubakar. Education is a very necessary tool in building ones self-confidence; one who lacks the audacity of making some certain decisions should simply get an education which apparently is the only solution. When we were much younger, our parents used to tell us that "education is the key to success"; In as much as this may not be the truth in entirety, neither were they totally wrong, because, one who has acquired quality education has a very low odds to being successful; but, without any fear of contradiction, it isn't a sure bet in a country such as ours(Nigeria) where it is based on who you know in most cases,and that has being a major set back to the development of our dear country.We depend so much on sharing the national cake(returns from the sales of crude oil) which has become sole such of our national income. With ...

As far back as 1960 since independence, Nigeria has being in search of quality leaders, leaders that understands  the kernel of  quality leadership and it's benefits to a country as large as ours, leaders that are ready to make sacrifice at all cost to redefine the notion that people have towards politics, politicians and policy making and etcetera.  Often times, I ask myself, how come we are still captives of our own selves? our so called leaders are even worse than our colonial masters, they went as far as defining politics to be a game in which the best liar wins, to make politics a game of self interest where there is no permanent friends, but, only a permanent interest. How then can we live together as one? when we have been engulfed in what I call ethno-religious sphere. Where did we get it wrong? this should be the question that we the youths need to make an in depth  systematic investigation on, let's take a trip into the past to trace the roots of the pr...

Student/youth Unionism as a tool for redefining Nigerian politics.  Nigerian students and youths of this great country must make it a concerted effort to bring that change we desire to our political system.Those who claim they hate politics or have no interest in politics should rethink and start taking part in political affairs from the student union level up to the national level,they must also realize that every thing around them is being affected directly or indirectly by the policies been implemented by our politicians that have made us to believe that politics is a dirty game to scare us away from participating,my dear brothers and sisters, politics is not as dirty as we think or as they have made us to believe, it is only seen to be dirty because, those who are currently playing the "game" of politics are dirty or rather superstitiously believed to be embodied with voodoo,hoodoo or rather some magical powers. I will give us an illustration in form of a rhetori...