Where is Nigeria headed, really?

In the cities, those who can afford to buy generators, dig bore-holes, send their children to private schools or overseas, fly to Egypt or Saudi Arabia for medical help, they also hire vigilante groups to patrol their streets. However, unlike the villages, where communality is still working, in the city everyone is to himself. Dirty […]

In the cities, those who can afford to buy generators, dig bore-holes, send their children to private schools or overseas, fly to Egypt or Saudi Arabia for medical help, they also hire vigilante groups to patrol their streets. However, unlike the villages, where communality is still working, in the city everyone is to himself. Dirty streets, congestion everywhere, poor town planning, lost of societal values etc.

What future do we see for our dear country Nigeria? The issue is not the president’s health, even if the president were to be around the same problems persist. Nigeria is a failed state. No functional school system, hundreds and thousands are failing their final examination, which in years to come may become a societal problem, no basic skills among the youths who are mostly semi-illiterates that are unable to contribute anything to the society. And we keep talking, deceiving and lying to ourselves that things are working. How? We have ourselves to blame, we take things for granted and left our destiny in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves. The future is bleak for over 150 million people and the effect of this neglect has started catching up with us. Let us continue stealing and amassing billions and stashing them in foreign banks, but the truth is there is a pay day. We have seen what happened in Somalia, Liberia and Sierra-Leon and other African countries, where injustice, bad governance, corruption was the norm.

Kabiru Danladi Lawanti, Area 11, Garki, Abuja