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We are all greatly influenced by the images beamed into our minds on a minutely basis, and in today’s tech-driven world, there are gigabytes of well-choreographed information that we absorb everyday which gives us illusions about reality. Nigeria also suffers specially from our inability to ward off the toga of a bad image, and our predilection to somehow believe the worst about ourselves. Many of what we say and believe about ourselves are statistically untrue.
The last concern is the separatism ideology that ails parts of our land and peoples. There is a long story here but suffice to say that it goes back to the relative ease with which we obtained independence and shortly after, the demise of our parliamentary system of government. The first coup led to another coup. Both were bloody, and naturally this led to so much animosity and a civil war ensued, with great cost in human lives.
MANY REALLY HARD LESSONS ARE LEARNT – Development often requires the learning of very hard and costly lessons. Most developed nations have gone through the worst of experiences that we should not wish for. Famines. Plagues. Wars. Diseases. What-have-you. These experiences probably made them hardened and innovative. We should not expect to waltz into development. The period of development is usually a painful period, not a period where we eat, waste and throw in the trashcan.
UNITY AND SELF-FORGIVENESS ARE IMPORTANT – The history of economic develop has shown that self-forgiveness is important. If a country dwells too much on infractions of the past from one constituent group to another, such a country will never move forward as members of one or more groups at every point in time will work actively to pull back the rest in retaliation for past ills.
WE ARE NATURALLY LUCKY IN NIGERIA – Our weather is great. And so is our land. A geographic or agricultural map of Nigeria will show that most of our land – 95% – is green and arable. Most nations cannot boast of the kind of positive diversity we have in our country across resources. We may even explain away our underdevelopment as a factor of the ease with which it is easy to live in Nigeria – and has been over time.
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