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The system has become modern day slavery. Those ibo men go to the village to bring those boys and then turn them to slaves, they make them sleep in the shop, while oga madam brings food for them the next day, she instructs some of the boys to go home and clean up the children's poo. Their oga sometimes delay in settling them after end of service, he might even accuse the boys of stealing his money and then hand them over to the police to be beaten up and detained just because he doesn't want to settle them.
Having seen the maltreatment become popular among their ogas, they either japa with any amount they can steal from their oga & start life afresh or yahoo as a means of escape.


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Yankiss:
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Na Yahoo and instant gratification boys dey chase now.

The resut of this would only be known in about 20 years time.

Sounds like normalised child labour, exploitations and abuse to me. I can bet my left balls that most nigerian ignoramuses on here will disagree.










Oya! Start! with your dumb remarks.

Sterope:
We will be left with those that barely know what they are doing. The young boys in SW would rather ride okada. Fast money, then they think they have arrived. They end up impregnating the girl that should ordinarily spend 2 years to learn a skill which is now a year because she done get belle.

That's the core problem: the love of money, get rich quick and very poor morals.

This article focuses on the Igbos. Yoruba's are still involved in the apprenticeship scheme but do not really k ow the depth.

As long as young boys have Yahoo boys and other vices as bad models, things will stay the same.

Sterope:
We will be left with those that barely know what they are doing. The young boys in SW would rather ride okada. Fast money, then they think they have arrived. They end up impregnating the girl that should ordinarily spend 2 years to learn a skill which is now a year because she done get belle.

you said it all...last time I went to my village,19yrs old don born 3!

pocohantas:
Way back when you go to get your hair done, you will almost beg for breathing space because as the shop owner is making the hair, almost 6 girls are struggling to see what she is doing. Both the ones that smell good and the ones that don’t.

The good part was you don’t have to be giving attachment (I haven’t met just one lady that loves doing this). These days ehn, na just you and the hairdresser with her crying and restless toddler.

Sterope:
We will be left with those that barely know what they are doing. The young boys in SW would rather ride okada. Fast money, then they think they have arrived. They end up impregnating the girl that should ordinarily spend 2 years to learn a skill which is now a year because she done get belle.

pocohantas:
“School is scam”
Why then is there no cluster of youths learning skills or businesses?




People in business, what has been your experience with apprentices?

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I agree with you, most time this oga's don't even settle the guys after many years of service, once they know it's almost time to settle them they will accuse them of theft.

Calitoscassius:
Sounds like normalised child labour and abuse to me. I can bet my left balls that most nigerian ignoramuses on here will disagree.










Oya! Start! with your dumb remarks.

YeyeGbami:
Nwa boy wey him eye don open, na the money wey dey enter him oga akant him dey eye. After learning for some months he go run off, mumu go think say he don sabi.

Go ladipo you will see them, they don’t know jack sh*t they just want to make money.

Na money now. Even yourelf

Seen the Nwa Boy Apprenticeship system with a friend of mine.

It's one thing I ired so so much.

So sad if this is true.

Tochukwu was my friend's dad's kinsman.

He did every single menial job without complaint.

I was there when he got his "freedom"

Was great to see.

Madam, we're in the 21st century! Things have changed. People are now upgrading to new models of doing business. This is the computer age.

I have always said it that if Igbo people are not careful, we'll be overthrown in the trading business for which we are currently known by Yorubas and other smarter tribes who value education and follow trends. I'm not talking about real business like real estate, tourism, media etc because I know that Yorubas are the owners of those. But at least the trading that we do, let us try and be upgrading and following trends.

How many "nwa boyi" does Jeph Bezos and the likes have None! They employ smart workforce and pay them for their services. But you want Igbos to remain in the analog age. Who will even agree to give out their children for such slavery when there are better skills to learn that can help them survive in this modern age Only an uninformed person will do that!

Nice thread, I have one nwa boy with me now, and I'm hoping to take another one when I travel for Xmas

Sterope:
We will be left with those that barely know what they are doing. The young boys in SW would rather ride okada. Fast money, then they think they have arrived. They end up impregnating the girl that should ordinarily spend 2 years to learn a skill which is now a year because she done get belle.

You hit the nail on the head.

OP don't blame youths today. When they have seen yahoo boys stealing and living the good life how would you expect them to focus?


And these are the youths that want to take over power in Nigeria o

gift01:
Yahoo don take over. Nobody wan learn skill again. My friend lost his apprentice the day they went to work in a Yahoo boy's house-naso him apprentice take stay there dey learn work

The apprentice saw 'light'.

pocohantas:
“School is scam”
Why then is there no cluster of youths learning skills or businesses?




People in business, what has been your experience with apprentices?

Nobody like suffer ohhh,why put your destiny in one person's hand for 10 years when you can learn on YouTube in 2 months

Unruly7:
I did boy boy for 8 years in Abuja between 2008 to January 2017
I was given 1m to start business



My good friend I met in the market too after he served his oga for 9 years they chased him out because of 40k they found under his bed



My other guy had issues with his Oga because he bought bag to be putting sales money without telling his Oga



What boys go through in the hands of the so called Oga isn't funny at all especially when your freedom is getting close


After they gave me 1m they still set me up with phone they almost arrested me as God may have it
Phone fell out of my madam clothes

It was a disgraceful thing that day
She did apologize to me

But till today me and her no de talk

They been wan ruin me


I senior my boss kids but he'd first daughter don ever slap me by order from her mother
All because I wake up to go pee in bathroom unfortunately I mate the small in the bathroom

My offence was I didn't knock before enter meanwhile the girl didn't close the bathroom door door because of fear

Well she asked her daughter to slap me infront of my Oga and other kids

My boss felt bad but can't talk
The wife is bossy

Bro...your friends were dishonest.

You too talk true, you wanted to be servicing under Oga while servicing his daughter under you.

Talk true.

They'd say Yahoo is faster.. Who get time learning skill nowadays Yahoo Don spoil everything..their favourite motto. Is.. Hey rich or die trying... Or money must be made at any cost crew The rot is sickening.. Even the females ain't left out of the madness ..check the jail across Nigeria now, mostly youth..

Seems young people don't want to serve for long again and there's also the case of those masters that refuse to settle the nwa boys after long years of service.

Let's even say nwa Boi takes longer years, what of the Yoruba people that back then they learn work for 1-3 years max and do freedom still young people dont want to learn nowadays ,lots of these vulcanizers, mechanics, hairdressers etc are beginning to lack omo ise

I feel it has to do with everything being in the fast lane nowadays.


But there are still some who are ready to serve,

Nwa boy don turn to yahoo boy. No time for dorime.

So many factors caused the decline of imu ahia or igba boy.

Social media factor exposing the things that use to be a secret.


Pressure from parents. Many Nigerian parents put a lot of pressure on their sons to start bringing in money to assist the family and this pressure most times pushes male children into fast lane (crime).


Greed of our today ladies that now look down on people doing legitimate jobs while running after guys doing illegal things just because they dish out money and material things more.



All these factors discourage male youths from being patient in learning trades, instead they succumb to fast lanes which are mostly crime related.

pocohantas:
“School is scam”
Why then is there no cluster of youths learning skills or businesses?




People in business, what has been your experience with apprentices?

we have serious social decay.

I no blame them... How you go Nwa boy finish then that useless gender go tell your oga cos d man marry am, say you do this and that..na so Dem go pursue obi without settlement..

Abegg make una help me check weda Soludo dn dey win Biko..

pocohantas:
“School is scam”
Why then is there no cluster of youths learning skills or businesses?




People in business, what has been your experience with apprentices?

Because they we have been thought to think that theory is more prestigious than practical

We regarded Universities as better than polytechnics

And thanks to our colonized minds and the industrial culture of the time, white collar (desk) jobs became regarded to the despising of vocational (handy) work.

Quick money mindset, yahoo, drugs and prostitution have taken over

Money management is the key to success.

pocohantas:
“School is scam”
Why then is there no cluster of youths learning skills or businesses?




People in business, what has been your experience with apprentices?

Many of them would come to learn skills and businesses after graduation from universities or polytechnics. Unemployment will reset their brains. It is already happening. The era of keeping boys or girls for years in apprenticeship business has gone.
What is essense of learning a job for 10 years?
In the future, many would learn jobs poorly and this would lead to proliferation of vocational training schools with government regulating them.

Ok

pocohantas:
“School is scam”
Why then is there no cluster of youths learning skills or businesses?




People in business, what has been your experience with apprentices?