It's worst for the middle-class because there's nothing there for you, since you're not too rich to afford some of the things you need and neither are you too poor to benefit from charity. 

When I was in secondary school, the intelligent students get head boy, head girl , and all the heads position, then the very rough students gets labour prefects, game prefects, etc. The students in the middle gets nothing because they are not too good to get the head boy position neither are they too bad to get the labour prefects position.

The first way to win is to take away middle from your mind. It's either you're good or bad, hot or cold, rich or poor, tall or short, fat or slim, married or single. There are no in betweens.

The strength of every nation is in her youths, they represent gallantry and resource, and they are the pioneers of future civilization.

 The youth define who we are as a nation, where we are in the scheme of things, what we have achieved and where we are failing as a nation. 

Nigeria is a nation with multiplied languages, diverse cultural belief and practices, wide range of diverse history for her many people who do not share common origin that have united to form a state. 

And since 1960 when we gained our independence up till now, we as a people have been enduring a lopsided political system, a dilapidating educational system and surviving the social injustice and economic imbalance of our nation.

Despite the efforts of our leaders, the Goss Domestic Product (GDP) of our nation is in a downward spiral and our per capital income very low compared to other countries. 

Our only solution is in formation of new policies that will foster national growth and increased productivity rate as well as a review of old policies to get rid of systems that no longer serve us. And this is achievable.

When we talk about a new Nigeria, it will not come from the old people because they reminisce more on the past than they can hope for the future. 

Do not misunderstand me, as a young Nigerian, I realised that whenever I engage my parents or elderly people in a conversation, they always have a weird way of dragging and twisting the conversation until it turns out to be a conversation on how things used to be and the good old days. 

But when I am with young people like me, we do not sit and talk about the good old days and how things used to be rather, we talk about future days to come and how we think things would be. 

So the new Nigeria we all anticipate is not coming from the old because they keep looking back, it will emerge from us because we are the ones looking ahead. 

And we all have a role to play in this which starts by consciously developing a sense of responsibility and carry the idea that we owe our society something and we have something to give back to our nation.

If you take a look at developed nations, you would discover one thing they have in common, they all developed on the bedrock of innovations. Innovation is the greatest source of wealth creation any nation can ever maximise. 

Identifying a need and making up your mind not to blame it on the failing systems, not to carry placards and shutdown our streets but to gladly render service to our nation.

 While protest is not wrong, like I said earlier it is important that we review old policies and methods that no longer serve us and drop them.

 So bring your ideas to life in as much as it is not illegal and would not harm anybody even if it means selling it to the public in as much as the problem is solved, you have played your part. 

Let us take for instance, the invention of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 has created jobs for about 58,604 full-time employees as of December 2020. 

Left to the old people then, they would have gladly stick to their old means of communication because they are comfortable with it. 

The first step to change is in getting uncomfortable and creating solutions, this is where many young Nigerians miss it – keep wanting to graduate and work in government offices or under some big private organisations.

 We are eager to work for someone than we are about having someone work for us, you can now understand why the cry in the Niger Delta is getting louder though unheeded.

We must define ourselves as a nation not by our religion, not by ethnicity and not by social class, rather by our desire to thrive to see that our nation is number one in sports and entrepreneurship, until we have the best facilities in our schools and hospitals, until safety has returned to our streets and sanity to our nation, we remain faceless and unidentified among other nations of the world. 

Our mental attitude too has to change; the way we see each other would reflect in the way people see our nation.

Whether as an entrepreneur, sports person, politician, health worker, lawyer, etc. you do not have to come to the front to make changes. 

Because it is all of these fractions put together that forms a whole. So when we get better in our smaller communities, we are getting better in the larger one too.

 Strive to do something and be ready to constantly improve on it and we should not forget that a child who does not grow will forever remain his parent’s responsibility so likewise an unemployed mind is the burden of society. 

While we talk about a new Nigeria, the youth own the major roles, one of which is getting uncomfortable and innovating ideas. 

Nobody would walk up to you to hand down anything to you that you didn’t work for. Make your time valuable and make every day of your life count. 

There are not many people who choose to solve problems and that means there is enough space for anybody who chooses to be one. 

Contribute your ideas, engage in national issues and constantly educate yourself, update your skills, go for that position, aim for the best, reach out to somebody in need, feed a child, clothe a brother, educate a sister, cross new frontiers, be that person who chooses to stand for endless change within continuous self-innovations.

Let us not forget that Nigeria will be built by Nigerians.