Oloruntobi Alabi
Veteran Nigerian rapper Tobechukwu Ejiofor, aka Illbliss, has openly accused the Nigerian government of abandoning the nation’s next generation, branding their leadership a “total collapse” for youth development.
The hip-hop heavyweight unleashed this fiery critique during a candid appearance on The Real Shareholders podcast.
He also slammed modern “woke culture” for glorifying reckless behavior, arguing that destructive habits once frowned upon are now paraded as trendy lifestyles.
His words cut deep: “We’re rewarding indifference and stagnation now. ‘It’s all cool’ has become our national motto – cool to destroy yourself with drugs, cool to demand everything while contributing nothing, cool to abandon all ambition. Our value system is rotting.
“But let’s be clear – the government has catastrophically betrayed Nigerian youth. I hear kids saying ‘Oga, we’re hustling hard because the system forgot us.’ That’s their raw truth.
“One boy told me he turned to scams because his civil servant salary couldn’t cover his mother’s cancer treatment. Young Nigerians are psychologically broken – exhausted survivors doing whatever it takes to breathe another day. Existing here as a youth feels like punishment. Growing old here? A battle. Being born Nigerian? A generational curse.”
John Okoro
