Should We Still Pray For Nigeria?

How long should we pray for a country whose prayers God has answered?
How long do we keep patching an error that has kept the system stagnant?

How long do we in the midst of many resources yet pray for miracles?

I refuse to pray for Nigeria.

Nigerians are a people with strength, determination, and power.
We are a people with goodwill and pure heart.

But it is disheartening that we lost it. The glory of a nation swims away in an ocean and our leaders are the spectators while we applause them without realizing how much damage we are causing.

Sometimes I jokingly ask myself if Nigerians will ever make heaven because many of us don't even know that using a cracked computer software is "stealing" yet we all run our computers with these stolen programs in delight because yes, we can't afford to buy from the original source because dollar is about 400times One Naira.
Our system has made us lose our prestige, "The Giant of Africa."
Nigerians are a strong people.
We are a people who writes hallmark achievement in the books of history, yet without ink.
We do international exploits, yet under poor economy.

Many of our youth are being celebrated globally in different fields from academics, sports, Music, to technology. Many more are being paraded on national television in Europe, Asia, and America for engaging in fraud. For stealing money that twice multiply the annual budget of many nations.

We become skeptical on tax payment. We ask ourselves rhetorically, "are tax payers money being spent judiciously?"
Our leaders harass the common man who hunts for daily bread in traffic without a clear structure of a better or even an alternative source of livelihood.
We all see wrong as right and yet we want to keep praying. Can we continue to live in sin and seek for Grace?

As we celebrate this day let us remember that praying for a country like Nigeria is not enough, we need to take a step. A step towards liberation. A step to freedom.
Without a renewal of mind and a willingness to seek what is true and live right, the change we clamour day and night may forever remain nothing but a six letter word.

Nigeria at 60 what are we celebrating?
SARS killing us like chickens?
Boko Haram bombing us for following a religion we believe in despite the promulgation of freedom of religion in Section 38, subsection 1 of the Nigeria constitution?
That bribery and corruption has become the norm?
Or that we can not get quality education in our government owned institution?

Do we celebrate our youths who seem to have lost hope on a better Nigeria?
Or our leaders who lied that we are the leaders of tomorrow? Tomorrow is gradually becoming yesterday and the future is still bleak.

To every Nigerian, I hope one day we have the courage to look our political, ethnic, and religious leaders in the eyes and ask the part they played tackling this oddity. Maybe then we will have the strength to fight for what is right.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIGERIA.

Simeon Olanrewaju
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-Psalm Oderinde
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