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It is hope that keeps us all alive. It is hope that makes you wake up every morning and gives life another push. Though your job applications have been rejected time and again, it is hope that makes you submit it; time and again. Although he’s already three years old, he’s yet to utter his first word, he still can not stand on his feet. It is hope that makes that mother wake her child up every morning, wash his body, clean his teeth, oil his hair and wear him some beautiful pair of new clothes. It is Hope that makes her smile at him and waits patiently for his first word. It is only in hope that a student would find the courage to write an exam over and over again, hoping someday he’ll tell his story of how many times he had to try to succeed. You see, it is hope that keeps us all alive. It is hope that makes that beautiful young lady swallow her pride and ego to make that call that is going to change everything in her life. Because she knows the truth; he is the tr...

WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? WAKE UP NIGERIAN YOUTHS Awolowo was 37 years, Akintola 36, Ahmadu Bello 36, Balewa 34, Okotie-Eboh 27, & Enahoro 27 and they led the struggle for Nigeria Independence after the death of Macaulay. Only Zik was 42 at the time. In 1966, the first coup was led by: K Nzeogwu who was 29 years and countered by M Mohammed 28, T Danjuma 28, Babangida 25, Garba 23, Sani Abacha 23, and Yaradua 23, and brought into power Gowon 32, Ojukwu 33, Obasanjo 29, and Buhari 24. Most of the military governors who governed the states under the successive military regimes were under 30 years. The brief democratic dispensation which interjected the military interregnums also saw some Senators, and the House of Representatives, in particular, populated by members under 30. Under 30's were also not in short supply with appointments - we have examples of MT Mbu who became foreign affairs minister at 23 and Pat Utomi who became a federal adviser at 27 and so on and so forth. N...