As Nigeria marks its diamond jubilee, there is good reason to celebrate. It has survived various types of stress and pressure – political, economic, religious, ethnic, and above all, intermittent leadership failure. It is gratifying that this country of nations has held together, somewhat. But this is not good enough. Some may argue that 60 years is short in the life of a country. Ours, with so much endowment, can be far better than it is at age 60.
I regret to compare Nigeria with the People’s Republic of China . In every index of development and progress, the gap between the two countries is so huge as not to be explainable by a head start of only 11 years. I think, as many do, that, in the words of Chinua Achebe, ‘the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership’. Modern China, came into its own, so to speak, with its declaration on October 1, 1949, of a hard won independence from foreign powers.
However, if every Nigerian decides today to put the common good above personal interest, surely we will have less cause to complain about our country. Four centuries before Christ, the Israelites, under his inspirational leadership of Nehemiah, ‘built the wall [of Jerusalem]… for the people had a mind to work’. Three lessons from this are one, a trustworthy man offered to lead, two, the people trusted and followed him for the task at hand, and three the people prayed and worked.
How do we build great nation through righteousness? I have simple recommendations for Nigerians, be you president or parent, be you teacher or student, and be you director or janitor. captured in the words of Lou Holtz: ‘Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated’.
Nigeria can never be great with those old men ruling us, they're tired they have no vision, they're only taking what belongs to us, they keep extorting us on a daily.. They're thief being ruling since and has been done to make Nigeria better
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