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It is true that knowledge is power! I believe it will always remain like that. The point I want to put forward is that life after university is not as usual as we use to know it. In the past people will go to university and come back with 100% of certainty of securing a job in the shortest time, which was prove to be true as the population then was little and the resources were enough to sufficed. Now that is completely different, the number of people turning in for universities studies today is ten times larger than before. With such turn out, the reality remain that the readily available jobs are not enough to catch up with the number of graduate. One thing we all have missed is entrepreneurship. The simple reason for that is we don't normally have a plan B for our lives. In an instance of one coming out from the university and he has search for jobs for several months and the search didn't prove successful, why not make a narrow excape of that and starts thinking...

As it is said we will begin to go backward when we are silent to things that matter. Child marriage!  Our generation is constantly in battle with the syndrome... of an increase in child marriages. Everywhere today campaign is being mounted to tackle this disease. In my country Sierra Leone (west Africa) we have a slogan in our local parlance pikito which means child that is in the age of 16.  However, some usually say young cucumber is the best. When you hear someone (men) say this just know that he is referring to a child that is below the age of consent. Notwithstanding, child marriage is the process that occurs where child/children that is below the age of 18 are sent or forced into early marriage. Child marriages today are seen as a global problem in the world over.  However, in some countries today tough laws are being put in place in other to solve this problem and in helping bring perpetrators to book. In my perspective, the problem starts mostly with a centralized...