BY OBI NWAKAMA
Without a doubt, many Nigerians have given up on Nigeria. For these Nigerians today, there is really nothing left of Nigeria to aspire to, defend, promote, love, or protect. Every institution that normally creates value in a nation has collapsed or rendered pointless in Nigeria.
True nations are ones to which the citizens without compulsion rally to the flag with pride to defend her honor, her value and her standing.
But what is left of Nigeria to honour or defend? What is the great value of Nigeria? What is her mission? What is the purpose of Nigeria? Those are the questions. Nigeria does not appeal anymore to the imagination.
The condition of Nigeria hurts the psyche of Nigerians. No one wants to be a Nigerian today because Nigeria has no purpose; a reason for being unless you are a beneficiary of the rot in the system. Currently, most Nigerians feel alienated and constrained by their nation. It is not a very good feeling – this sense of being locked into a…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
