If I could shout 'Ma lo nogedede, ma lo nogedede, ma lo nogedede ko yo' and become an overnight millionaire, why do I need to burn the midnight oil in search of scholarship and intellectual industry? - Tosin Ayo

The greatest undoing of the unrewarding system of education is the disincentive and demotivation it occasions for the coming generation.

Gone forever are those days when parents admonished their younglings to go to school, study hard, graduate and become eminent personalities in the society. It doesn't work any longer.

With those literate forebears who have gone ahead of them, looking like the painful shadow of lack and classic examples of what they never wish to ever become- lettered hungry people with over-sized shirts parading the streets in search of non-existent white collar jobs, educated poor people with neither substance nor hope, weary and thoroughly dissatisfied job seekers with no end in sight. No sane person goes in the way of bleak no matter how packaged the advice is.

The alternative is aspiring to become comfortable artistes, entertainment crooners, prolific Internet fraudsters and political jobbers.
If your mentor is hungry and haggard, who needs a tormentor?

If I could shout 'Ma lo nogedede, ma lo nogedede, ma lo nogedede ko yo' and become an overnight millionaire, why do I need to burn the midnight oil in search of scholarship and intellectual industry?

If I could 'sashe' and live the life I want, why exactly do I need to go to law school? Until the lives of those who study gets better, I am afraid the choice of career path of the upcoming generation is crystal clear.

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If I could shout 'Ma lo nogedede, ma lo nogedede, ma lo nogedede ko yo' and become an overnight millionaire, why do I need to burn the midnight oil in search of scholarship and intellectual industry? 

Tosin Ayo is a Legal Practitioner, Researcher, Law Teacher, Energy Law Specialist, Novelist, Poet, Social Commentator, Public Affairs Analyst and Social media enthusiast. He is a distinguished author of several books and biographies. He attended the University of Ado-Ekiti and the Nigerian Law School, Abuja for his LL.B and B.L respectively and the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom for his LL.M Master of Laws, Energy Law where he emerged with the result of the best overall performance in the Energy Law Programme in September 2013. He has a passion for teaching, writing and counseling. He currently teaches law in the Department of Jurisprudence and International law at Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.