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• chronic poverty
• threat of armed violence/abuse
• corruption
• no access to clean drinking water: the waterways nearby are polluted with....
...human waist
...oil slick from illegally tapped pipelines
• lack of education: illicit work
• the youth just want to survive

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1st Example from the book
[Rape]  (chapter 5)
The daughter of the major was raped with 18 years, when she was going home after studying in the late night.
The major (the father of the girl) was arrested for abducting one of the rapist.

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2nd example from the book
[The dead  of a 20 years old boy]  (chapter 6)
A young boy (20 years old) died in a gun fight between the militants and the military, because he only stood there.

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8th example from the book
[Koko pregnancy] (chapter 10)
Koko is a young women, who is working as a maid for Mr. Floid. She is pregnant from him and had an anonymous identity, because Mr. Floid do not want to release her Identity. She looks like a student.

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9th example from the book
[Anita and the girls in 1980]
(chapter 11)
In the 80th young girls came from the villages and were raped, pregnant or homeless. Others died and were discovered later in the river. There were a lot of prostitutes. Anita was one of these girls. She was 18 years old. Her parents threw her out of the house, when she was 16 because she was Pregnant from a very young boy, so they could not marry. She was in love with Zaq. After Zaq wrote about the girls like Anita in the newspaper, the government decided to help this girls like her. So she graduated from the university and worked in a bank. After that she had a relationship with a very rich man in the drug world. More over she was the reason why Zaq lost his job, because she put cocaine in his bag, when  they traveled to London to buy their marriage things from their.

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Hope for a brighter future...

• New and honest Government [stop corruption and lying]
• The youth want to improve the system in Nigeria by studying

Law [fight for the injustice system in Nigeria]
Medicine [improving healthcare in Nigeria]
to become a police officer [to end crime]

•collect signature and movements [for things to change]
—>the youth are still full of hope for the Future

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Why is the youth losing hope?
• children with rich families have a more chance to have a good future
• they are lured to corruption and become like their leaders
•are stifled by corrupt system [until the youth throw the tower and give up]
• justice is never served [rinse and repeat] [nothing had change NOTHING IS CHANGING]
—> that is why they get tired and start to care less

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The students have to...
• sitt on the flor or window sills
• write on their laps [no tables or chairs]
• wear: tattered uniform, rubber sandals, torn school bags
—> go happily to school
• re-educate themself later on before been employable
things they been thought in school are irrelevant for the future
(the most school are like that)

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1st Example from the book
[Rape] (chapter 5)
No real punishment for the rapist, because one of them is from a royal (important) family.

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A Nigerian Unemployed Youth Speaks Eloquently About What Is Wrong With Nigeria

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3rd example from the book
[Rufus Education] (Chapter 6)
When Rufus was 15, his father sent him to Port Harcourt to become a men and to learn a photography. After finishing his apprenticeship, he returned back to his family. Then Rufus father sent him away again to complete his apprentice, but Rufus did not want to complete his apprentice, so he decided to study journalism and he was very lucky.

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4th example from the book
[The Doctor] (chapter 8)
The doctor had been posted to a village in the near of the soldiers camp for five years ago. It was the time after graduating from the medical school. He tried to help the people there, but he could not. He set up mobile clinics In a boat.But people tell them, that there health is OK, they are just poor.

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#Revolutionnow: Nigerian Youth Protest In Lagos To Demand For Reduction In Fuel Prices and Tariffs

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4th example from the book
[The doctor] (chapter 8)
When people died, because of the pollution, the doctor sent their blood results to an Italian company, but they did not do any thing. After that he sent his results to the government, but they dumped the results in some filing cabinet. At least he sent his results ta NGOs and international organisations, which published the results, but nothing happened.

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5th example from the book
[the Professor] (chapter 9)
The professor (Ani Wilson) is young and criminal. He broke his education early and was in jail with 15 years.Then with 20 years he became a party Thug and with 22 he became a murder. He broke out of jail because of the help of his godfather, who was a politician and has a place in the senate. Now he is the leader of the professor militants group after he failed by killing his god father for money.

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6th example from the book
[Bouma and her husband John] (chapter 9)
John is since 6 months unemployed. Now he is very political and hangs out in the backstreet bar rooms with other unemployed youths, who play cards and drink all the day. They are also complaining about the government and had been full anger.

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7th example from the book
[Rufus friends] (chapter 9)
The friends of Rufus have also the same anger like John. That is why they blaspheme, rob a bank or join the militants, where they fight in forests and make millions of ransom money. More over a lot of them die.

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Reaching children living on the streets of Nigeria

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• fighting against police brutality {injustice in general that is happening in Nigeria}
• the youth are not silence no more
• fighting for a better future
• the youth have hope for a brighter future if they keep protesting
• gained international attention because of social media [social media protest]

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Youths Pray Against All Forms Of Police Brutality Across Nigeria

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Nigeria@60: What Nigerian Youths Are Saying About Buhari’s Speech

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• a social media revolt by Nigerian youths against their President, Muhammadu Buhari. The songs tells about the injustice in Nigeria in the point of view of the youth.