Abstract
<p><em>The development of character in young people is an obligation that requires the efforts of parents, teachers and the community in a society with a decline moral tone. The involvement in immoral acts by some youths and elders in the contemporary Nigerian society may be traced to inordinate ambition of these youths and elders to accumulate material wealth. The young people engage in what is generally referred to as yahoo and yahoo plus, and elders engage in corrupt acts. Yahoo describes the act of defrauding people through the cyber connection, whereas yahoo plus involves the use of rituals to make financial and material gains. The paper examined how young people could be educated to cultivate the virtues of self-control, contentment, caring for others and self-discipline. It drew inspirations from virtue ethical theories to ground moral virtues in character education, and discussed some intervention programmes that could strengthen character development in young people. It examined the effectiveness of cultural dimension in character development, and argued that a healthy society might be vitiated by the absence of moral virtues, which is the core feature of character development, and concluded that young people develop positive self-efficacy when they are exposed to moral virtues such as trustworthiness, self-control, honesty, self-discipline, tolerance, and so on. </em></p>
Highlights
Building moral virtue at a young age is supposed to be one of the cardinal aims of education
We conclude that character education is likely to serve as a veritable tool to cultivate moral virtues among young people in Nigeria
In a world that is fast drifting into violence and chaos, character development provides an opportunity to arrest this dangerous drift especially in a country that is vulnerable to criminal activities
Summary
Building moral virtue at a young age is supposed to be one of the cardinal aims of education. Character defines our personality- who we are and what we claim to be In their discussions of virtue ethics, Plato and Aristotle attempt to work out the conditions under which individuals will be happy within the state. Aristotle does not pretend to show that he does not agree totally with Plato It is true, he argues, that individual should live under the guidance of the rational soul in order to achieve a successful life where a successful life is defined in terms of the cultivation of virtues. Sometimes parents provide explanations of why moral virtues such as integrity, honesty, truthfulness, responsible behaviour, and caring are valued in the society and what happen to those who indulge in vices Some of these young people may want to know why individuals could choose to cherish vices than virtues. There may be differences in methods and approaches to character education its relevance to individual life is incontestable
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