Topic: The leaders of tomorrow. (Read 376 times)

i think that leaders of tomorrow have another entire meaning because we all can not be leaders but when we grow we can always make a difference one way or the other either in business or even in politics because if you look at every sector you will see that there are young people everywhere it shows that one way or the other young people are still becoming leaders and as far as politics is concern our youths are too careless and when they become leaders some sectors will suffer because of their carelessness, and all they care about now is money. and even going to extent saying that school is scam and many other things. and school is only a ticket to find your direction. the season we are in now is not about having finished school I will get a job. everything has changed and everyone is sorting there self out.

Omo looking at the Nigeria system,it’s. Not creating a good environment for engagement of younger generation to be successful because as days goes by the country keep getting harder and creating good policy to tackle the challenges we are facing in the society.back in the 90s as a graduate to the Chances of you been employed are at high chance but for now,the graduates are more than the jobs opportunities and the government is finding a way to create a better youth empowerment and more in the country in whole.

You are exactly correct in your assessment of Nigeria's destiny and how education and freedom benefit society, but I also believe that training children to make choices on their own and be free is necessary. So, I believe that injustice is one of Nigeria's most pressing issues currently. And I believe one approach to overcome this is to encourage an acute awareness of morality and uprightness in the generations to come. Of course, this begins with how children are nurtured at home, but I also believe it is essential for schools to include morals and principles into their educational programs. Finally, I believe the government should hold elected representatives responsible for their acts and to promote an atmosphere in which truthful and industrious individuals are appreciated. I believe that this is the only means by which to build a society in which individuals are driven to do the proper thing instead of engage in dishonest and immoral behaviour.

Truths be told OP, you can’t come into the future with the idea that, maturity is defined by some age. We might classify them as kids but, we’ve got real smart kids now than we had years a decade ago. Why is that?

That’s actually because, kids of this time built on what have been improved to become a better version of us when we were their age. I’ve seen some really smart kids and as well, I’ve seen the dumb ones too.
Hence having to define maturity by some age isn’t the best means to do it but, I can’t blame them those who put this form of categorization out to group things and how it affects certain parts of our lives.

If the future belongs to the children, let’s not bore them or mess it up with our outdated ideas on how to approach or run the society. Maybe that’s why Bitcoin is still a hard to accept innovation for most part of our world and people of our world till today.

The term leaders of tomorrow its still valid based on your perception and understanding. The country has failed us and not invested enough in our future as young ones, but its up to us to fail ourselves as well by relying on their shortcomings to decide or future.

We must take charge of our present and future and struggle to live better lives and achieve a lot in life, its a challenge and we must rise up to our responsibilities to ourselves. Utilize every available opportunities to upgrade and up skill, become outstanding and useful to ourselves and the nation, only then can we be the leader of the tomorrow they're stealing from us today.

Exactly.it’s no more leaders of tomorrow it’s just about them and their families.now even little children don’t believe the word. They actually sing it as a song without effect.

Really I don't this thing od saying leaders of tomorrow work's here in Nigeria because the system is totally different from when you are tender till you gets to be adult if time is not taken all your aspirations will definitely change.....

When we were growing up, our parents always asked what we would like to be in future and we open our mouth wholeheartedly and say doctor, pilot, engineer, banker, etc.

To be candid I wanted to be a Lawyer but today I am a post-construction cleaner, sounds funny but crazy. Whenever we went to school, there is this song we loved to sing then ‘parents listen to your children, because we are the “leaders of tomorrow”, try and pay our school fees and give us sound education’. Our parents have done their part by giving us sound education, we’ve done our part by becoming learned, yet we are not “Leaders”. Politicians of then said parents train your children well because they are the “Leaders of Tomorrow”.............

30years running, some graduated with a good grades, some went ahead and had their masters, some Bsc, some OND, some HND, some NCE, etc….......

what comes to some of our mind is desperation and desperation often leads to destruction because we are hungry, we are angry, we are jobless, we are frustrated and out of this frustration some have committed suicide, some joined bad gang, some become armed robbers, hired assassins…......
Now lets go to my main point, are we really the leaders of this day? When I can’t even afford three square meal, I don’t have an apartment of my own, you hardly see a 35 year old occupying an office in the house of assembly, house of rep, senatorial district and so on. These set of politicians that tell us we are the

“Leaders of Tomorrow” still occupy these seats comfortably and from the look of things they are not ready to leave in near future. Tomorrow is here, yet we are nothing near Leaders, are we truly the Leaders of Today?

What did you think you will become?

What did you become?

Where do we stand on this issue?

Who is to blame?

What’s your opinion on this?

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  The leaders of tomorrow don't have to be only for the matured people, those that is small of age can also be a leader, just in school there are students that are selected for different positions e.g course reb and so on.
   However, the aged people have ruled for a long time and the country is not getting any better, we can all say that because we are the ones witnessing the whole situations in the country.
   The world is getting more advanced every day, so as kids within the age of of 14, 15, or 16 as you mentioned are in the university we should be proud of them because they are making sure that their own generation would be more better than this present generation.
   Their classes will always testify about how smart and knowledgeable they are. During our days it's very difficult to see a kid that's not up to the age of 18+ in secondary school not to talk about in the university, so we should always motivate them to do more.

Perhaps I fall into this category of children but at least over a year now I have left the age grade mentioned above, the truth about all this is the educational system that has been in existence from the early stage our parents where your academic performance determines how successful you would be and that has lead parents forcing their children to school even at a very early stage, some of us in the university are results of feminism, where a woman would refuse to look over the children for some years and teach them morals, they would rather put them in school from the earliest age hence they finish secondary schools at the age of 13 -15 and will apply for university immediately and with the academic performance the university have no option than to accept them.

If productivity is taking a good look at some of this children (including me) would not be in university right now because they would have been some where doing apprenticeship in one skill or the other.

In regards to leaders of tomorrow, we are a some how immature to handle positions but at some point we are best suited for such position because we think faster, younger and can take any step in as much as it requires strength. Perhaps NYSC could help mode some of us i. the university but at some point parents don't let there children suffer to achieve a position rather they will buy them for the children.

Just as you said let parents let children be children, let them make decisions when they should and don't try to push them when they are supposed to be pampered.

I appreciate this form of argument. The Maxim that says the Youths are leaders of tomorrow is correct taking into cognisance the transistory nature of human existence on this planet Earth. I hope the statement doesn't mean that as at the age range of 18 -30yrs , a youth would be entrusted with an administrative position to oversee an organization, public or private. Either they could be confounded with certain tasks that have nothing to do with people future such as critical public policy decision making process.
It is also certain that the older ones and the youths would live side by side, and as the time moves on, the youths gradually would be growing up to maturity to take over from the older ones.
But contemporary events have shown that the tomorrow of the youths have suffered consistent shifting by the older ones in power. The domain of power has become the exclusive preserve of the older ones despite the fact that there exists mature youths capable to handle the instruments of governance in such domains.

Those grandfathers can't easily allow we youths to rule and these are part of the problem we have in the country. How will you expect aged man to rule a country effectively. We can't compare how a youth will think with old people. Till we citizen understand the benefit of youths as leaders that this country can change for good.

Our grandfather are now leaders of tomorrow not children or even the youths, Africa is in trouble because you can not see where a young person is rulings the president if such even exist then it is few which is very bad, though I don't really blame our grandfathers much on this because I noticed that the youths are not ready to take power, they youths are even the ones guarding the so called grandfathers.
The only way things will be done the right way in this country is for the youths to unite which I know that it won't be possible because the youths of this country has been compromised already by this political class called the grandfathers, they pay them to control them, so even though such plan was to be made, it won't see the light of the day because the grandfathers will get know about through this youths that ate working for them.

NYSC can help them because most of them might look small but deep down they have better things to offer to the society. Most people are childish in character but when it comes to education dey can play a glood role. There is different between childish and being educated. A childish person can educate people but still be childish. But a person who is matured in character but not educated can not teach a group of people.

No matter how you where brought up at home, when you gain admission into the university you will straight up as fast as possible because university is not for children. I could remember when I gained admission newly it was so difficult for me like washing my cloth cooking and doing everything on my own. But at a point I discovered that my name is (OYO) on your own. I decided to Pick up and become serious. Except that child has no basic skill of home training atol if not environment must change you when you are not with your parents.

When I hear leaders of tomorrow in this country I laugh. Which leader? Probably before they will become the leaders they might have gotten to 40 and above and by then they will have become matured. This country the older generation are not ready to step away for the younger generation to takeover, so relax they will get matured before leadership gets to them. Sometimes I wonder why parents rush their children to finish school on time maybe before 21 or 22. Not as if there is an already waiting job for them. NYSC isn't going to fix anything bro. Mind you same parents will relocate their children from where they are posted originally.

Worried ke,about which future of the country.The youths are the future of the country,they are the leaders of tomorrow.Why are they called the leaders of tomorrow?the youths are called the leaders of tomorrow because they are to takeover from the older generation.You don't generalize a word for every youths that graduated at the age of 18-19 years and can't take care of themselves,there are thousands of youths out there that graduated from the University and are doing well.You said immaturity,we have adults out there that still have the attributes of a child (childish)so maturity is not all about the age.Maturity is from the mind,children with matured mindset make right decisions for themselves and are fit to be leaders of tomorrow.Even the bible recorded that Jehoash ruled the people of Jerusalem at age 7, imagine such a young boy ruling people that are old enough to be his parent.So the age doesn't matter it's the mindset that matters.

Really, have you ever thought why students get involve in examination malpractice and with this saying school na scam, I don't want to talk bad against our leaders but they're the ones setting these example for the younger generation, lecturers now get involve in bribe and all sought of things you didn't mention those dirty act but instead you pointed out the examination malpractice, teachers nowadays get involved too in examination malpractice. I don't see any need point the younger generation or blaming them, politicians get involve in this act too by cheating and playing games with citizens emotions during an election, if citizens and leaders followed the rules and obeying the law all these examination malpractice will not even occur in some schools. Although the malpractice system has affected a lot of student,  if there's any way to stop this then the lecturers and leaders must set a good example first.

Bro...if you read this post very well... I already stated the fact that some of these children, for real, actually deserve to be where they are. Age wasn't the headline of the topic...but the immaturity that comes with their little age.

Can we even settle down and think about how the rate of examination malpractice is rampant nowadays, A lot of these uni students are moving faster than they should only to enter uni and focus on the wrong things. If this continues...the future of Nigeria will be rich people..terrible economy...party country...and scam based country.

Leaders of tomorrow was a language that our four fathers used to tell you and l, and now we have come to realize that a world like that is no longer new to us, and we have no regard for it anymore, because the leaders of today doesn't want the leaders of tomorrow to come to pass,they have chosen to remain the leaders of today and tomorrow which is not proper...

The world was created before with the mindset of grouping into different categories of people,the leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow,but the people are this world have decided not to have it in different categories rather to remain the same people today, tomorrow and forever..

You're actually confusing me cause from your last paragraph parents should let their kids make decisions on their own and your second paragraph say the leaders of tomorrow seems too young and immature to make decisions, if I'm not mistaking. The issue with age, young or old can't even help the country current situation and if I may ask do you think the old will ever give chance for the young generation to rule or you're just assuming cause I don't see that happening sooner or later, for example what's the current president's age and looking at things right now it will take time before the young can rule the country.
You using 15,16,17 as an example I still don't know why or you've experienced something you don't like, if the child is smart I don't see any point stopping the child and anyone trying to stop something like this is just wicked and you don't think you're holding the child backward?, if you feel your child should wait that's your choice but you should consider the young kids with creative ideas making money just because of their knowledge so I don't see any point stopping young children going to uni at age 17 or 18. This thing you talk na wetin people dey value for olden days not now wey every don modernism.

Well you said immature are in the universities but let me tell you something there are some children from the age of 16, 17, 18 some of them are smarter, wiser and can make better decisions and contributions than some adults. Though some when they go into the university at that tender age they feel they think they are old enough to do some decisions by their self and end up making the wrong ones and that’s why I think some parents to still making some decisions for their kids, knowing or having that feeling that they may or might make some mistakes.
But though I would say that a child is not allowed to go into the university without reaching a particular age