Moral Decadence Among Nigerian Youths As Future Leaders: A Socio-Cultural Regeneration

Abstract

A day hardly ever pass without some media reports of ethno-religion conflicts, examination leakages, student unrest, secret cults, sexual abuse, certificate forgery, drug abuse and other cases of indiscipline across the country. Observations reveal that the youths are bad today, not only because of the negative societal influence but also because some homes have failed in their primary roles of inculcating socio-cultural values to the affected youths. This paper observes that moral regeneration of the Nigerian youths is not to be hinged solely and wholly on formal pedagogy. Traditional African people taught their young ones to be morally upright by devising effective and pragmatic ways of impacting certain ideals and virtues in them in order to mould them for leadership position of nation building in future. This discourse employs moral, social, cultural and theological springboards for the exposition through the use of secondary data. The paper recommended the reawakening of campaign on African traditional cultural values orientation and the encouragement of positive attitudes and values with the view of revamping the youths and the society from moral debility.

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“…Likewise, in a study by Posokhova et al (2016),the result shows that parents of children with visual loss experience low quality of life when compared to those raising children with loss of hearing. The economic power of parents with disabled children is usually threatened by the financial demands of keeping and managing their disability (Adebisi, 2018 ). Ede and et al, ( 2020a , 2020b ) observed that caring for disabled children imposes a serious economic threat to parents especially parents who combine caregiving and paid employment or business activities.…”

Moral Decadence Among Nigerian Youths As Future Leaders: A Socio-Cultural Regeneration

“…The phenomenon of moral decadence among the youths of Nigeria has reached an unbearable level. Recent research studies have shown that higher percentage of secondary schools and university students are engaging in various immoral activities such as examination malpractices, cultism, violence, cyber crimes, sexual immoralities, etc, and if something is not done to curb these vices, it may adversely degenerate the progress of this our country-Nigeria (Adebisi, 2013).Though moral decadence among youths has been majorly blamed on the parents (for lack of proper up-bringing of their kids) and the media (for exposing some critical scenes capable of polluting the innocent minds of the youths), our government on the other hand should not be left out as one of the prominent culprit. Nigeria leaders due to their corrupt practices have neglected the rule of law, show no respect to human rights, and are deeply involved in bribery and financial mismanagement.…”

“…Also, some of the sophisticated technology products being produced also contribute their own quota. One could easily see what video games, blackberry pinging, face book, movie magic, super sports, etc, has done to the academic records of some youths, who abuse the purpose of their invention (Adebisi, 2013). The fight against moral decadence among youth is what everybody should join hands in combating.…”

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