The level of decadence among the youths of
today has risen to a state which every parent and straight-thinking youth must
take seriously.
Lecturers now decry the display of wantonness
among students, their attitudes towards their academics, their colleagues and
even the lecturers.
Speaking with a civic education lecturer in
the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Mr. Tene John, he said, the problem lies
with the family which is a basic institution, they’re lacking behind in giving
their wards proper home training.
“Parents
hardly have time for their wards and where they should have run to for proper
admonition, that is the religious institutions, are not helping issues, clerics
no longer pay attention to the less privileged but to those who offer fat
tithes” John said.
He added that “some of these students even
use phones and tablets that lecturers cannot afford, and when you look at their
phones, what will be found there is alarming, they visit pornographic sites and
get distracted by meaningless relationships.”
Another lecturer of mass media and society in
the Lagos state polytechnic, Mr. Ifedayo Akinwalere also concurred by saying decadence
can be traced to individual homes and the schools.
“The parents and the schools have a lot of
work to do concerning these youths, there is the need to intensify the degree
of discipline among the students, its one thing to have the certificate and its
another to have the moral standard to back it up, it might be easy to get a job
but it is only your attitude that will retain you there.” He further said.
The lecturer however advised the youths to
be conscious of their morality because the best certificate they can have is
the degree of their moral.
MAR’YAM THAWBAAN.
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