By Victor Agbo

Nigeria is a country with great potentials, there's no doubt about it. People always debate about factors that prevent Nigeria from standing as a very great nation, but there is one thing I've never heard them mention, and that is the fact that most “Parents don’t give their children the freedom to choose a career path.”

Note that I use “Nigeria” because it is my country of residence and origin, not that this does not apply to other countries.
Parents find it so difficult to grant their children the freedom to choose their career path themselves, and it is EVIL. We are forced to follow what they've designed to be the "norm" around here. It is for this reason that many people abandon their dreams; they leave it behind and start doing what other people are doing. And when everyone is doing the same thing, at best we get innovation, and at worst, we get another person who failed at trying to be someone else.

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