2018 Person of the Year: A goddess of resistance | The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

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[FILES] Madam Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Leah Sharibu, sobs while at a press conference in Jos, yesterday. <br />

Apart from the economic recession, political dislocations or social upheavals that appear intractable, at least to the leadership, a certain human character deficit gnaws at the soul of Nigeria in a way that puts the nation’s future to question.

Indeed, the landscape can sometimes seem such a moral morass that finding joy, hope or inspiration is an arduous task.

The search is often in vain for those whose lives teach the important lesson that no man can be a first rate person in any form or field if his own life is all there is to him.

This is the bedrock of the monumental corruption and poor leadership now poised to kill Nigeria.

In this very dark chapter of Nigeria’s history, however, one person has chosen to write a bright message of love, selflessness, courage and hope to her compatriots.

The story of Leah Sharibu’s capture and her continued…



Source: Guardian Newspaper