In the midst of Nigeria's compounding economic and spiritual crises, a Catholic priest has translated years of pastoral listening into a daily devotional meant to accompany young people through hardship rather than talk them out of it. Fr. Victor Makinwa Ogunyemi's 'A Word for the Day' does not promise escape from suffering but offers something rarer — a framework for persisting through it with dignity and direction. The book arrives as a generation navigates unemployment, identity confusion, and the seductive pull of fraudulent quick-wealth schemes, and it speaks in the language of someone wh