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Why Nigerian Youths Engage In Yahoo-Yahoo, Ritual Killings -M.I. Abaga
A Nigerian singer and rapper, Jude Abaga, has explained why some Nigerian youths resort to internet fraud, ritual killings and other crimes.
Abaga, who is popularly known as M.I, opined that Nigerian youths are not lazy.
The musician spoke with The Tide source on the sideline of OgunTechSummit, organised by an IT expert, OlaniyiAyoola, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Reacting to why some Nigerian youths have decided to engage in Yahoo-yahoo, ritual killings and other heinous crimes instead of engaging in legal businesses, Abaga retorted that the situation was as a result of the youths’ inability to secure jobs.
“The youths of Nigeria have been looking for jobs. For anyone to make a claim that they are lazy, the person must be able to look at the indices. You cannot just make that sort of conjecture without having the economic framework within which that is true.
“You can not say youths are lazy and do not want to work if unemployment is high. The unemployment rate tells you that there are no jobs. If you look at the job market, you will see that there has been serious gross unemployment for a long time. Anytime there is gross unemployment, there is also a tendency for there to be high crime rate, which is what we are experiencing.
“But the high crime rate is not the indication of young people’s attitudes. It is an indication that there is an ecosystem where there is no opportunity for them to work.
“And, because they can not work, and they have to eat, that is why they have to find a means to survive. That is what we are experiencing in Nigeria today,” he stated.
However, Abaga advised the youths to take advantage of the opportunities provided by information technology.
He called for greater collaboration between “creatives and the tech space”, saying, “I think the creatives are sort of left as the unserious people of the society. What we want to show today is that creatives make everything better. They run the tech space.”
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
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