In this article, Timi Olagunju writes on a culture of promoting debauchery, and debasing education and innovation in Nigeria today. Recently, young boys were observed tearing the uniforms of girls; school girls, and also holding their private parts at them, because they were excited about finishing up their Senior Secondary School exams. Oh yes, right in the heart of Lagos! The girls were dodging and hiding! And guess what? Police officers were close by. Passers-by were laughing and passing. Well, it’s not their kids, so what the heck! Then someone saw it and confronted the boys to stop them, and they ran. Through further investigations, it was discovered that they had started like two days earlier. Such is the culture we are in, in our society! A culture of hyper-sexuality, heightened sense of sexual awareness and public sexual display garnished with loads of globally recognized sexual ignorance, worse in Africa, and much worse with Nigeria, considering our population and the educational decadence. What do you think made us this hyper-sexual, to the extent of not having the strength in our conscience to tell the boys to stop that nonsense for two days? What do you think made us this hyper-sexual, that the girls could not say, this is wrong and we must report this to the school authorities tomorrow? What do you think made us this hyper-sexual, that the boys do not know that, it is demeaning, wicked, stupid and criminal to do such! The problem is not with our stars, it is with our minds. Our minds have seen so much nakedness in music videos, everywhere! Heard so much lewdness and nudity and profanity (even at Children Christmas’ parties) that it sees nothing in ‘naking that girl apako ’. Let me give an instance, If you watch a movie once and it made you cry, would you cry the same way if you repeat the movie twice or thrice? No! That’s the power of familiarity, of exposure. We have celebrated, promoted a hyper-sexual conscience via sexually laden entertainment, such that our minds are becoming used to it. Now, are these things not in the US or Canada or UK. Yes, they are! But do they make it the one and only thing in the faces of young people; is that all they promote in public cycles? In the 1970s, the US Presidency realized that the Stupidity Quotient (SQ) of Americans was getting higher, so they researched, and they discovered that the movies Americans watched had that influence on them. The Presidency decided to have series of meeting with Hollywood and came up with plans to use movies to promote patriotism, science, and science fiction. After a short while, it is no surprise that some of the things in those movies such as flying cars, electric cars, are now being invented in the United States. This is a call to use entertainment for public good, whilst we make money in Nigeria. Even most Nigerian companies are culprits to increasing our stupidity quotient! Using their Corporate Social Responsibility budgets for shows and shows, with little or no educational program. The Government doesn’t care either! So are the companies! So are parents! The days of ‘Speak-Out’ is gone! But for how long would we be an entertaining country (with people without real purchasing power or skills or morals), instead of an enterprising country. Why not promote agriculture as entertaining? Why not promoting Science, Technology, Arts, Engineering, Maths (STEAM) as entertaining? Haven’t you observed that anytime there is a major concert or show, mostly foreign experts install the stage, sound, lighting etc! Why not build skills in these areas around the business rather than young people seeking to sing or dance or rack a joke, and let’s export such technical skills outside Nigeria, for foreign earnings! Look at Clarence Peters – he doesn’t sing or dance but produces videos and he is rich and comfortable! Why not diversify skills in the industry! Why not make community service entertaining! Why not start Fellowship programs at the national level that brings together young community leaders for some weeks of internship at the National Assembly or in Aso Rock! Why not do a Civil Service Fellowship program, where innovative bright minds contribute a few months with the Civic Service both at local, state, and federal levels to learn from experience about policy making and bring some innovation into governance! Like Fela said, suffering and smiling! According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), over 4 million this year alone joined the tens of millions of jobless Nigerians, who stand in the morning to argue over news items at Newspaper stands (“beer parlour argument”) or stand in the afternoon at the Betting stations or sit in the evening at viewing centres, whether there is a match or NOT.