As the final hours of the year slide quietly away, it is only human to look back, tracing the paths of our days, sifting through moments that have shaped us. With the twilight of 2025 upon us, will you gather at a humble or grand table, surrounded by laughter, silence, or absence? Perhaps you have already counted your blessings—each one a dim light in the dark. Or maybe your mind is busy weaving hopeful blueprints for the dawn of 2026. Just the other day, I watched the children in CoComelon sing their gratitude for life’s simplest gifts—things we often overlook, absorbed as we are in our hurried routines. How easily we forget that wonder. If we slow down, just for a little time, we all have so many things to be grateful for. Even the most ordinary blessings are worth our quiet thanks. In this spirit of reminiscence, my heart swells with gratitude for more than I can name, but here are a few gifts that shine especially bright: Sanity Good health A job/craft The gift of memor...
WORK EXPERIENCE
Many jobs out there want people with experiences even at the
beginning of their jobs and there are opportunities for these in school which
is during your IT and during your holidays. Many people get to understand this
later. Like I got this understanding after I attended a career seminar and this
was after I had already graduated from school. I found out that I could have actually gained some experience working as a student during my holidays. Now it
may not matter much to me because I’m a doctor but I think it would matter to
those who studied other courses. Apart from that, many of our youths still have
the mentality of “go to school, get good grades, good jobs are out there” and
that’s a problem that needs to be demystified from their minds. Rather, people
need to start looking out for what they want to become right from their school
days. Now, going back to the government and the employers; because of course
it’s a two way thing, the problem of this country is still the same. There is
corruption and this is stopping development from happening because
infrastructures are not developing and employers are not coming into the
country. If there are no foreign investors coming in, people starting
businesses, people cannot be employed. The government cannot cater for or
employ everybody. What they need to do is create infrastructure and ensure
development that will help investors to come. In fact, many companies have
moved their headquarters from Nigeria to other countries in the past couple of
years and this is because the environment is not good enough. Many people leave
Nigeria and they get jobs easily outside the country because the environment is
conducive for investors to stay.
Now the places where the government can invest is somewhere like
health and education. In developed countries the government strictly takes
responsibility for these things. Like the health sector in the UK is absolutely
free and they make sure that they employ enough doctors. They have a quality
control system even for hospitals that makes sure hospitals deliver enough by
employing more staff. This means day in day out, there are job opportunities
over there that even their own citizens cannot fill in so foreigners rush in to
take these jobs. Now that is government taking responsibility. In their
education system they are looking for people who will train to become teaching
assistants because they don’t joke with the standard of their education. Here
in Nigeria, most people attended private schools - primary and secondary. It is
at the tertiary level that you see most people attending federal and state schools and if you think about it the private institutions are gradually taking
over now. So everything still boils down to the government and the people
realizing that the government has nothing planned for them even as students so
they can start planning for themselves… That’s the way I see it.
A Shared Experience
Don't Forget to be Honest!
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