By M.O. Idam, Esq.
It is becoming a dangerous era to raise a child in Nigeria. Young people are radicalised daily with unethical teachings flying up and down online—in the name of content.
The impact of these teachings must be waiting for all of us somewhere along the streets of the future.
If there exists no mechanism to police teachings that tend to radicalize the mind and possibly shift human behaviour from ethical norms to unapproved societal standards, then we all must be ready to welcome a generation with a distorted orientation.
One is already freely indoctrinating a sea of Nigerian Youths, another is on her way to start her own. Undoubtedly, several others will follow in no time. By the time they are done, the already morally fragile Nigerian young people would likely be turned to either beasts or wild beings against each other.
The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Ministry of Education must call these content creators to order now before we wake up to a society where human relationships have turned brutish, short and nasty like the Hobbesian order of nature.
It is not a joke any more!
M.O. Idam
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True—if this menace isn’t curbed now, we may soon face a society driven by distorted values.