Mohbad is a young and very talented musical artist whose death on September 12, 2023, has attracted wide youth agitation in Nigeria. The youth are calling for justice because they believe his label owner, Naira Marley, also a musician probably killed him. Mohbad is the street name of Oladimeji IleriOluwa Imole Aloba given to the youngster after he made his first three songs. When his contemporaries heard him, they told him he was 'bad' because his songs appealed to them greatly. Mohbad is a combination of an English word and a Yoruba word, Moh meaning 'I am' and 'bad' which means not good. Mohbad resisted the appellation initially but eventually accepted it. Everything Mohbad did since then was ‘bad,’ that is, exceptional. His father, Mr Aloba is a poor carpenter who squeezed himself to send him to fee-paying primary and secondary schools. He did because he saw that his son was brilliant. Mohbad made his Senior Secondary School examination with very good grades and his father decided he must go to a higher institution. He got a surety to take a loan from an extortionist loan organization that the government allows to swindle people without hindrance. That organization whose method of taking back its loan is so cruel and unorthodox that many of its customers have had to commit suicide. Mr. Aloba dared the odds, took the loan and paid for Mohbad's entrance into a polytechnic. But Mohbad will not attend classes. He was fed up with his father's poverty. Many days he and his brothers went to bed without meal. He had seen his mother weep because there was no meal for the children. His mother abandoned the family and didn't see Mohbad for ten years.
Inorder to solve this youth problem we've to start from the LGA and state level by reintroducing primary and secondary school education. In Edo State for example, there are no primary secondary school infrastructures like, buildings, tables, chairs, teachers, education boards etc.
Secondly, the government needs to encourage and support people to go back to the village and farm. Farming was the occupation for three quarter of the state population. It was through farming our fathers sent their children to secondary schools and universities. Farming is now a joke in the village. Third quarter of the villagers has moved to the cities with no proper education and job.
Inorder to solve this youth problem we've to start from the LGA and state level by reintroducing primary and secondary school education. In Edo State for example, there are no primary secondary school infrastructures like, buildings, tables, chairs, teachers, education boards etc.
Secondly, the government needs to encourage and support people to go back to the village and farm. Farming was the occupation for three quarter of the state population. It was through farming our fathers sent their children to secondary schools and universities. Farming is now a joke in the village. Third quarter of the villagers has moved to the cities with no proper education and job.