Recently, there is a viral video of a young boy who was expressing total disgust against the entire educational system (in Igbo language). For him, life has become so hard that if you are not a politician or a oversea scammer, then you have no access to what makes life enjoyable – money. When his interviewer suggested that he should stop thinking that way and focus rather on his education, the young boy retorted that ‘education is scam’, to use a popular street language in Nigeria. According to him, there is nothing there in the educational system. And he justifies this claim by arguing that graduates do not even get jobs, lecturers are hungry and they keep exploiting students. The worst is that there is even no money to sponsor quality education in Nigeria. Sad as his agenda – going overseas and making money – sounds, the lament of this young boy says a lot about how our society is crumbling.

Our society is crumbling not because of the difficulties we encounter but because of the corrosion of values. In a society where the symbols of success are represented by corrupt politicians and fraudsters, then we are all in trouble.

Where are the models of positive societal values? Where are the honest mentors of the future generations? Whose pattern of life should the young people emulate? Where are the uncompromised, the honest politician, the sincere and committed teachers, the prophetic pastors, the honest businessmen and women? Who still has his or her lamp during brightly to show others the way? It is not enough to say ‘follow Jesus’, because the helpless and disoriented people of the world today is looking for Jesus that is embodied in you and I.