Most of the times people forget to imagine the real reason why Nigeria is one of the greatest countries in the world.
By Opinion Writers
There are very many wild guesses when you are being asked to tell something about Nigeria. One of them is that; Nigeria is one of the African Largest and most populous black nations in the world or you can refer to Nigeria as the fastest growing economy in the world.
Most times people fail to recognize the power and influence of young Nigerian MINDS who have kept the pure energy of what Nigeria is made of.
Nigerian youths kept on rolling, in spite of the dirty narrative given to them, even from the darkest corner of Nigeria, a Nigerian youth is mostly hopeful of a bright future.
With over 200 million population, Nigeria seat at the heart of Africa’s economy as the major Business hop for investors. a 2/3 of the population of the entire United States.
It’s also understandable that when you attempt to research Nigeria, you get to see all the negative impressions about Nigeria in terrorism, banditry, poverty, fraud, kidnapping, and corruption.
What you don’t get to see on google or the media is the fact that Nigeria currently has the highest number of tech unicorns and the fastest-growing ecosystem in the continent positioning Nigeria as the brightest country to grow investment and do business in the world pioneered by the young Nigerians.
Nigeria has one of the largest and most hard-working diaspora communities in the world that make remittances of over 22.3 billion dollars a year to Nigeria.
Nigeria is home to most of the continent youngest billionaires and the world’s youngest millionaires in Dollars value who are building different business brands, initiating new ideas and models that would shape Nigeria in the near future.
Nigeria is currently the biggest exporter of afrobeat Music in the continent to the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other parts of the globe. with demand for Musicians like Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, and many others.
The Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs
Nigeria has a population of young people between the ages of 18 and 23 at 63% out of the total world’s youth population projected 74% who are cosmopolitan with a vast knowledge of global Business standards, and entrepreneurship skills.
Nigerian young generation is constantly keeping with the pace of time through learning and applying innovative technology in developing their Business Ecosystem inspired by global best practices.
The Nigerian Government has come under international critiquing and pressure over the Government’s inability to create enabling infrastructures to develop the country and its economic need that can elevate the standard of living of the people of Nigeria, yet the young folks are pushing beyond limits to build the kind of Nigeria they want for their future.
The youth of Nigeria in another hand have decided not to let their future be crippled by the inadequate opportunities for them as they are actively creating Business ideas and devising their own path to join the rest of the world in building their destinies.
The Nigerian Child is like an orphan whose rich parents didn’t invest in his future, left to break through the ice-cold and through the tides of a tornado, and through the storm of an unsettled sea on his voyage to the other side of the ocean.
The Nigerian Youth has realized that the future will not come in good shape if they do not take aggressive measures to build their own future regardless of the strain of financial support from the Government systems and policymakers.
This is why in Nigeria, every young Nigerian is aspiring to build for him or herself the future they desire on their own. and they are exceeding expectations.
The strongest street power and belief in Nigeria is to create jobs and not to seek jobs. The young Generation are leveraging their set skill, acquiring knowledge, and designing them in the ecosystem that Nigeria needs to shoot itself to the first world by 2050.
Impact of the youth on the Nigerian Economy
As the world continues to move in the direction of technology, Young Nigerians have not been left behind as they are always at the forefront of advanced technological inventions that are rolling out to better our society, with creative ideas, and developing strategies on how to solve the problem facing Nigeria.
Naturally, Nigerians are born with the thick body-cell ability to withstand pressure heat, and overall stressful environment and in the midst of the struggle of the Nigerian young man or woman, they endure the pain of lack of easy access to accessible infrastructures and enablement for growth in porsuied for their goals
The challenges that the Nigerian youth are facing however are not to be undermined as most Nigerian youths are still very much busy seeking other ways to leave the country for other parts of the world for a better life.
If you place the size of the measures some youth are taking to get out of Nigeria, side by side with those standing their grounds in their country, you will have to dust your hat for Nigerians who are supposed to be lockout of opportunities and are yet creating hefty opportunities for themselves.
The type of ideas and energic skillset amplified with talent and the ability to learn and adopt modern world-class business values vis-a-vis Internationa standard of trade will show you how much the Nigerian Youth are ready to move Nigeria to the future.
