Activist cum Lawyer Deji Adeyanju has lamented the moral collapse of Nigerian youth, saying young women now parade their bodies freely on social media while their male counterparts chase quick money through internet fraud.
He made the remarks in a clip from The Honest Bunch Podcast that circulated widely on Thursday.
Adeyanju said the behaviour represented a generation that had abandoned discipline and self-respect for instant gratification.
“Go and look at all the young people. They are n@ked on Instagram. They are na@ed on TikTok. They are all n@ked. The guys are all doing yahoo, defrauding people.”
He said a visit to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had brought the scale of the crisis into sharp relief.
“I was in EFCC yesterday. Go and see young people, 16, 15, 17, 18. They are all suspects in EFCC. Destroying their lives. Destroying the lives of other people,” he said.
Adeyanju also raised public health concerns, linking what he described as permissive social behaviour to the spread of disease. “Have you not seen the latest reports on how people are just spreading HIV all over town?” he said.
Contrasting the present with his own youth, he said intimacy was once something a man had to earn through sustained effort.
“During our time, for you to see the n@kedness of a girl, you work hard. You have to work minimum eight months before you can,” he said.
“Go to TikTok. Almost all Nigerian girls are n@ked. It’s not just n@kedness. Red lights. Look at the generation,” he added.
He said the trend was inseparable from a broader collapse of ambition and purpose.
“Open bre@sts. No job anywhere. Just open chest on TikTok and Instagram,” he said.
Adeyanju stopped short of blaming the generation entirely, arguing that the failures of previous generations had created the conditions for the present decay.
“I want to absorb their generation of any blame. They have no blame. Because if they have blame, they should also have blamed the generation before them. When will the blame game stop? We must find a solution to our problems in the immediate, in the interim and in the long run,” he said.
He drew on his own trajectory to illustrate what he considered the right path, recalling that in 2012, he housed seven members of his staff in his personal three-bedroom home while building his career.
“There must be a process to growth,” he said.
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