WISE UP NIGERIA YOUTH!!!

WISE UP NIGERIA YOUTH!!!

What can I say am thinking of every day as a citizen of Nigeria? Is it how to prosper in this country, or how to rise to the top as one of the able, prominent, icon in the productive sector of my country? Well, it’s not of some people concern if one really progress in this country, in as much their pocket is full with ill gotten money.

Come to think of it, what can an average Nigerian citizen much especially ‘a student’, do to be self employed? These have been thinking of every day. Apart from thinking, that if you got it right through thinking, where are you going to get the fund to establish what you have been dreaming of.

As a youth, I always discuss with a lot of prospecting friends on way out, but most of the time we come to this dead spot where we are confused and tired, is it the situation of the country economy or we as an individual.

According to all the foreign motivational books which I have come across, I noticed there are a lot of difference in the way things are been viewed in Africa compared to that of America, but if most issues been discussed in most motivational books are put to practice, there will be little or more positive changes in personality development in building the right and aspiring youths that will not look into politics to survive in these country called Nigeria….which is known as a country of the survivor of the fittest.

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In order to give quality meaning to telling the history for a race, tribe, group of people or settlement, the need to start from the very beginning of man’s existence would be a worthwhile academic exercise. In deed, this page is about the history of the people of Ogbomosho land. The people of Ogbomosho land are undisputably Yoruba speaking people
It lies on the Plateau of Yorubaland (elevation 1,200 feet [366 m]) in an area of savanna and farmland and at the intersection of roads from Oyo, Ilorin, Oshogbo, and Ikoyi. Founded in the mid-17th century, it remained a minor outpost of the Yoruba Oyo Empire until the beginning of the Muslim Fulani conquests of Oyo in the early 19th century. By surviving the Fulani onslaught, the walled town attracted many Oyo refugees and became one of the largest Yoruba settlements. Ogbomosho's traditional rulers retained control over the refugee population, which, though the new majority, was not given political power. Following Ibadan's victory in 1840 over the Fulani at Oshogbo, 32 miles (51 km) southeast, the town shifted its allegiance from Oyo to Ibadan.
Now one of the nation's largest urban centres, Ogbomosho is inhabited mainly by Yoruba farmers, traders, and artisans. Yams, cassava, corn (maize), and sorghum are grown for export to the cocoa-producing areas of Yorubaland to the south; teak is also exported, and tobacco is cultivated for the cigarette factory at Ibadan, 58 miles (93 km) south-southeast. Locally grown cotton is used for weaving aso oke, the traditional Yoruba cloth; Ogbomosho weavers also make sanyan, a cloth woven from silk brought from Ilorin (32 miles northeast). The indigo dyeing of the cloth is performed exclusively by women. Although the craft of wood carving has declined, the town is known for its early wood artifacts and for its unique koso drums. Ogbomosho serves as a staging point and market for cattle, and it has a government livestock station. The town also has a shoe and rubber factory. Local trade is primarily in staple crops, palm oil, kola nuts, beans, fruits, and cotton.
The Oyo-Ilorin road is the main street of the town. A prominent landmark is the great square tower of the central mosque, which rises above the traditional walled compounds of private houses and the parts of the old wall that remain. Ogbomosho has other mosques and several churches and is the headquarters of the American Baptist Church of Nigeria and its theological seminary.