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

Despite the fact that I don't support under age going into the university, but I won't limit the age to becoming a leader, anyone can lead as long as you get the experience to, and sometimes this experience is all about being responsible regardless of your age, because sometimes age is just a number, I have seen young university students behaving very mature and coordinated, and seeing a 30+ years old man misbehaving in the same university environment, so the thing is Viz vasal and we have to accept that, but then also, it is very important to at least allow your kids to grow and be able to control and take decisions for themselves before pushing them to the university for whatever reasons.

Just as you said 18+ is very ok for a young person to gain addimision into the university but anything below that age is unacceptable for me.

We also have to note the effects of but going to the university at young age and also going into the university at old age, both of them have their disadvantage and advantages which we must carefully look at sometimes.

Make we all ginger our youth make dem get independence and sense of responsibility so that our country go better. The young ones na the power wey dey move our country, so if dem fit build themselves well, our country and people go surely see better days. For this time, as the nation economy dey jolly, na so the nation fit strong pass. So make everybody sabi about Bitcoin and the good wey e fit bring, use our economy shine well.

Actually it is common this days. I was in my jss3 when I was 15years and I know nothing and also not used to internet facilities much more like now. I think there is advancement in technology and also in the mindset of the younger generation. We were told to stay clear from women if not we will get them pregnant or going to social media will endanger our lives maybe by being initiated by white which and many other stories that frightened us, which made many people not being expose at earlier stage. But now the youths are privileged to be exposed at a tender age and it's pushing them to do all sorts of things. If you check now the death rate now, it is  no were  compared like now.  most people have fall victims of what we where been touht might kill us, because the youth think they have know it all. No matter how fast they grow in academic pursuit, I still think that the immaturity is always in them. maturity is not how fast you grow or how large you are, but the ability for you to handle complex things in a mature way.

One thing you should know is that size or age for not matter. But how you can handle things. I think a man of 35years has been a president and was not denied because they saw that he is capable of handling the government affairs if not I don't think he would be given that opportunity. So age does no matter.

Fact the world is evolving, back in those days people who where in the senior secondary schools where way bigger and has gone far in age, some could be above 20-30 years and some may even be parents who have given birth to like 2 children.

But the world today is now focused on the mind and what you can offer, barely the size of an individual, most 17 these days can even come up with solution that some 20's can't provide.

The younger generation are now smarter than before, in education, technology and in most cases business, they can easily have access to a place where the average 20 can't.

OP, what is the definition of your maturity? Do you know age alone doesn't determine how matured you are? We have some underaged people that are much mature than the old people.


I don't see reason why parents can't make decision for their children but where they got it wrong is when this decisions are being forced on them. Also, most times, parent don't support talents, all they want is for their child to study good profession like doctor, lawyer, engineer etc. Forgotten children do well in what they love than what they are forced to do. If children are left alone with their decision, they are still young and may end up making a wrong decision. Parent should try to consider talents, subjects were their children are good at and some environmental and societal factors to counsel their children on their path of career.


Failure is what everyone should embrace. The fair of being a failure may always discourage you from being successful.

Op as for me we are in world of digital not analogue again that is is the major reason and education is more closer to our door step compare when the rules of age to be in University is made just that our nation here don't amend certain rule that is not political all they focus is politics. Nowadays children bare much more exposed to learning in various means and are intelligent to withstand all force in the academy world, just that what they have to offer the society, the foundation is not set which brings about government failure, because graduate of such age supposed be employed to be fully productivity for the society in a country where things work you such such categories producing in many aspects such as tech. Etc which our people can if things are put in place, just approach some and see how intelligent they are some are even more exposed in technology theoretically than our old lecture or teacher that failed in carrying research .

Op your point of argument and observation are very correct in some length, the curses of seeing 14,15and 16 years of age in University as under age and children is lack of productivity in the academic system in Western country where things are working, technology are properly in place this age use seen as the production workforce.  university is not only where to read and write as we have it here in naija it's a place where you learn a skill and be versatile in every aspect of life. The area of parents forcing children on what to become not allowing them to work on their talent , is curse by so many factors in our society, this only occur from the middle class to the upper class, where parent who think they have money are engulfed with proud always wanting to have a lawyer,doctor etc without examining the talent of the children and that have course many failure of children, they forgot that when the child failed they also failed.

Leadership is not by age else Africa would have had the best leaders. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case with Africa where the leaders are old and mostly unproductive. Countries ran by youths and those who are within the age of active service tend to move in the direct direction far more than those countries ran by old men and women, although there are few exceptions. The youths are definitely the leaders of tomorrow, just that in Africa, the youths seems to be prepared for followership of tomorrow and not leadership because the enders have held the continent hostage while the youths are running away to other countries.

Understanding the times and the generation we are in will help you understand some of these things, so much that instead of you being worried, you have to appreciate our improvement and advancement as humans even though many may argue that such advancement do not help us much. We are in the jet age, a time where there is access to information, where people becoming extremely wiser and more exposed. At the age of 14, children were probably in junior secondary those days, this does not mean there were no moral decadence or immaturity in display, it was just the time. I was turned down several time from entering primary school because I was too small and my hands could not cross my head and touch the opposite ear... such a funny yardstick of measuring maturity

I will enjoin you to accept the times we are in, appreciate the uniqueness and be happy you belong to the internet generation where information is at your finger tips hence the fast pace things are going. Besides, have you checked if this observation is peculiar to Nigeria is same is happening across the globe. The later is definitely the case as you can see from Wikipedia article about Michael Kearney who graduated at the age of 10.

OP, going through all you have noted here so far, not being skeptical, I will have to tell you that am not against a child of 15- 16 being in the university, is just that our system made it to look as if it is bad or something, if we have a good university system where every undergraduate is been mandated to be learning one skill or the other in the said university and this would be part of their curriculum, it should be a must that the will learn the skill before being admitted in any university, the university system in Nigeria is negatively mind blowing that students don't concentrate on their courses alone, the do more of borrowed courses  than their main courses which is bad, how would you expect such a student to get the best, what we see this days are graduates that went to school to pass their courses with good grades but nothing to offer the society, practical courses are zero.

Which ever ways am of the opinion that be it private of government university should roll out strict skill acquisition programs that help the students once the get admission into the university, so that this will help them once they graduate wether they are employed or not with the skill they have so far, it will enable them to be self-reliance and employer of labour too.

For me I'll prefer a child of 15-17 to think of how they can acquire skill before rushing into the university, 15 - 17 of age are still tender in thinking and behaviour.  The university is an institution that needs mature mind that can be able to handle situations and challenges.  And I feel the best time to learn skill is after secondary school that one can also use to support their self in the university time and after graduation one can still look on to the skill as a source of income.

I no lie you, when I see the thing sef e weak me, you go just see one small pikin say na university e don enter. Without  much of life experience, now sef if the multinationals see your height and age, ma brother them fit even no give you work sef, because you never dey exposed to do many things, and your CV sef fit attest to that fact. For our time, after we finish secondary school, our parents gives us time to learn hand work, and that same hand work na one of the things wey we use take sustain for school. And from that small exposure of hand work, we learn plenty life lessons concerning being under a boss, or an authority other than your family members. When you rush life ehn, you go miss so many things, and the small wisdom wey experience sef they give you go still miss that one. Though plenty benefits still dey inside graduating on time oo, but plenty lessons dey wey you no go fit learn for school.

First off age is neither a test for maturity nor wisdom
We live in a contemporary world,one in which the elderly or alleged matured folk are rapidly losing touch with reality whilst still harbouring outdated ideas of how the world works.

The strength and future of any nation lies in it's labour pool and this comprises primarily of youths or younger people who tend to be more adventurous, curious,more enlightened and more technology savvy in comparison to their older counterparts
Moreover,it is widely known that  in almost all countries of the world,the youths are increasingly asserting their influence and leveraging their position to create more opportunities for involvement even in critical sectors like politics and leadership roles,defence and military,finance,industrial and technological sectors

The current prime minister of france Gabriel Attal is 34yrs old
The crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia M B S is 38yrs old
The head of state of Burkina Faso cpt Ibrahim Traore is 36yrsold
These are few examples of very young people occupying important positions and playing vital roles on the global stage

In a nutshell,the world as we know it has already changed and is changing still therefore we must try to be less rigid so as to be able to move with the tends and not be caught in between the fading and the emerging era's

To me I think say na even university education dey cause wey person go dey university get white bears, person go dey university reach 35 years while Gowon rule this country at the age of 31 and many more past government officials did all that at a young age and I don't know why they as young people took their destiny sharp sharp in their hand. I think say young people now self dey fall hand and that na because of university education wey dey make person think say you must enter university, study there before you become something and before you no it time don waka. Those families wey get opportunity to train their children for young age dey in order.

Okay now, for job requirements and recruitment, dem go tell you say if you dey above 25 years no apply for the job while some people don stay house 7 years after secondary at 17/18 waiting for jamb to free dem, funny. Job requirements say don't apply if you are above 25 years and at that age some people still dey wait to enter school, that is the unfortunate situation of bad policies of government.

Na this make private school dey flourish. Families dey run train deir children to commot school on time so that dem go still fit get opportunity apply for job no even for getting the job just to qualify to write job exam.

Education system don fall and in the past, the federal government officials hardly go university. Dem just do NDA,some do correspondence and na dem rule this country. We no go blame the youth like that, we see say the economy don really change.

Leaders of Tomorrow?
What really happens to today?

The current state of Nigeria as a country it's not promising the younger ones leaders of Tomorrow.
Where lies our conscience?.. the politicians has made it so difficult for us. But we keep being hopeful and optimistic definitely the younger ones will finally lead tomorrow. 👐

As you can see, the elderly ones can no longer hold this country altogether anymore because they are old and no longer strong enough to act faster.
It is a good plans for the children of nowadays grow faster so that they can understand what they are supposed to understand and get ready to restructure the whole things that needs to be restructured.
However, that will show that the country is growing and advancing, not like before when a 30 years old man will still be in secondary school or a 25 years old man also be in a primary school (maybe primary 5 or 6), that's odd, although that was how the country was, but nowadays one who's not educated will not longer go back to school because schools this days are filled with little ones that are little of age, just like going back to secondary school at the age of 35 and then you are the most else's and your age might also be higher than some of the teachers in the school.
This has made a lot of youths not to go back to school and complete their educations (mostly secondary school drop out) and this is very bad, so when you see a child at 16 or lower age in secondary school, you should be proud of him or her because they have taken good responsibility just to make sure that they are very different from others that are secondary school drop out.

This is the best that can happen in a country like this, it shows how adapting the country has gone with their educational system both parents are now getting the full importance of getting a formal education unlike then when a person old enough to be a parent will still be in secondary school then before moving up to the university.

This the reason why we have this old people as our leaders whereas their brain are now very weak to deploy strategically for the benefit of the country, we hope In the future this will be corrected with fresh and young people being in power.

I can never be worried because a person is young and is in an exalted position, it shows that the person started taking responsibilities at a very young age and its a very good thing. Like the saying goes, "Age is only a number", whoever is matured enough mentally can climb any height possible without limitation. Maturity is now a thing of the mind, unlike when it was thought to be accompanied with just age, although there's some level of maturity that accumulates as someone gets older, but it shouldn't be a  deterring factor for a younger person's progress.

The old people that you thought are matured enough to lead the country well have failed us and Led us astray. If the younger generation can set it straight, the assumed matured one can retire, so that the new generation can lead well. we are tired of these old fools who doesn't have our interest at heart. The younger ones should be given an opportunity to utilize their talents and help this country move ahead.

Have any one of you ever stumbled upon a child and for whatever reason and asked them how old they were and they replied " 14, 15, or 16" Then thinking they're still in secondary school, ask them, which class? and they're like " I'm in the university".

What were your reactions?   . I believe that moment you were probably worried about the future of this country.

The leaders of tomorrow, are children who can't take care of themselves. They're going to graduate from the university at about 18- 19 years old and then literal children would be in the labour force. How is this country going to not only survive but improve if the leaders of tomorrow are immature children who can't make proper decisions?

To be honest, some of these children actually deserve to be where they are. They are smart and responsible, but even regardless of age a lot of them are extremely immature and childish. The age for university admission used to be 18 years old, but now some schools just let anyhow children into uni, and this is mostly carried out by private universities.

Do you think NYSC can help these children? since some of its importance is teaching the youths resilience, independence, and patriotism. 

Another thing I've noticed is that a lot of parents don't let their children be independent or let them make decisions for themselves, then they grow up and become liabilities where at this point the parents start blaming them and comparing them to other people's children. This is very bad. Your child isn't going to be with you forever, no matter the age, when your child enters uni you should start letting them do things for themselves.  Let them fail, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, and get up. You can't protect your child forever oo.

Let's make this country better with these tiny efforts.


Thank you.