**🔥 NIGERIA, WAKE THE HELL UP! WE ARE LOSING OUR CHILDREN TO GET RICH QUICK MENTALITY – AND IT’S YOUR FAULT! 🔥**
*By Chris Okoye (But Make It Nigerian)*

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Yo! I’m not here to play games. This is not a *light topic*. This is WAR.

I just read something that made me stop scrolling, close my laptop, and take a long hard look at myself. Because if we don’t wake up now, we are about to lose an entire generation of Nigerian youths to the **get rich quick mentality**, and it’s going to be on us—parents, elders, leaders, and yes, even the so-called “influencers” who’ve turned integrity into Instagram clout.

Let me speak plainly: **We are raising a generation of confused, broken, drug-using, morally bankrupt young people—and many of them come from homes where the parents are still alive!**

You heard me right.

This ain’t about street kids or orphans. These are kids being brought into rehabilitation centers and youth programs by their own mothers and fathers. Twelve-year-olds with addiction issues. Teenagers expelled from university for selling drugs. Twenty-somethings who’d rather hustle than learn a skill. And all of them? Carrying paraphernalia in their bags like it’s fashion accessories.

What in God’s name are we doing?

### 💰”Yahoo Yahoo” Is Now a Career Path

Let’s get real. We’ve created a culture where a 19-year-old boy thinks he’s winning because he got a herbalist’s soap worth ₦100k and borrowed half a million naira to start peddling drugs. That’s not success—that’s suicide dressed in designer clothes.

And you know what’s worse?

These aren’t poor kids trying to survive. They’re coming from **comfortable homes**. Homes where food is on the table, school fees are paid, and there’s money for airpods and TikTok data.

So why the hell are they turning to drugs, ritual, and crime?

Because no one taught them the value of work.

No one showed them how to earn.

No one told them that dignity doesn’t go on sale just because your friends are flexing cars they can’t afford.

### 🧱 The Death of Skill & Work Ethic

Here’s another truth bomb: Many Nigerians can’t find a tiler in Nigeria anymore. They resort to importing Tilers from Togo. Why? Because our youth would rather sit on their bum and wait for a “hookup” than learn a trade. They want to get rich without effort. They want fast money without sacrifice.

That’s not ambition—that’s laziness wrapped in delusion.

There’s no shame in being a mechanic, a farmer, a carpenter, or a welder. In fact, those are the people building this country while everyone else is chasing fake riches online.

But nooo—we’ve raised kids who think working with their hands is beneath them. Who believe that education is a scam unless it lands them a job where they do nothing but sip coffee and check emails.

We’ve created a generation that sees hard work as optional and wealth as a birthright.

### 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 PARENTS: YOU’RE NOT OFF THE HOOK

Let me talk directly to the parents now.

Where are you?

Why are you silent?

Why are you giving your kids phones, data, and money—but not time?

Your child doesn’t need another iPhone—they need purpose.

They don’t need more TikTok followers—they need discipline.

They don’t need freedom without guidance—they need boundaries.

If you’re not checking their bags, checking their hearts, and most importantly, checking yourself—you have no business complaining when they fall off the cliff.

You can’t blame society. You can’t blame the internet. You can’t blame the streets. If your kid is out there lost, it starts with you.

Because the home is the first place values are built—or destroyed.

### 🧠 What Happened to Wisdom, Integrity, and Contentment?

Listen, I’m not saying money is bad. Hell no! Money is great. But **character is greater**. Wealth without wisdom leads to destruction. Fast money without moral foundation ends in disaster.

You can’t party, lie, cheat, and still expect life to make sense. That’s not life—that’s a slow-motion car crash.

And let’s not forget: every yahoo guy, every ritualist, every fraudster—is hooked on something. Alcohol, weed, codeine, tramadol—it goes hand in hand. Because you can’t live that kind of life without numbing the guilt.

That’s not living. That’s existing in denial.

### ✊ Let’s Fight For Our Children—Before It’s Too Late

To every parent reading this: Be present. Be intentional. Ask questions. Dig deep—even when it’s uncomfortable. Your child needs your voice, not just your money.

Teach them that success is earned, not stolen. That dignity is priceless. That contentment beats comparison any day.

Be their safe space. If you don’t listen, someone else will—and they’ll fill your child’s head with lies, false hope, and empty promises.

Let’s rise up and fight for the souls of our children. Not just because they are the future—but because they are our **now**.

We may not save all of them.

But we must not give up on the ones we can reach.

### 🔚 Final Words

Nigeria, we are standing at the edge of a cliff. Our youth are falling—and many of us are just watching.

Enough is enough.

Wake up before it’s too late.

Check your kids.

Check your homes.

Check your values.

And above all—check your heart.

Because if we don’t change course now, we are going to raise a generation that doesn’t know how to work, doesn’t care about truth, and doesn’t fear consequence.

And then, my friend, we won’t just have a problem.

We’ll have a **lost nation**.

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