Another Independence Party

At 48, this is a question that clangs through my mind and I’m sure of several Nigerians and Africans. What does the number ‘48’ signify for the world’s most populous black nation? What does this giant of Africa require to move to the next level, to become a “dream come true”? Postulating a single solution to the myriad problems confronting Nigeria would definitely be the woolliest task ever undertaken by man. Every independence eve, the nation’s media is saturated with nationalistic effusion; a yearly ritual which pits the arm chair social commentators and political analysts against government lobbyists. On the one hand the nation is left to rue at numerous missed development opportunities. How Nigeria ruled the third world horizon in the 1970’s where the naira exchanged with the dollar at par and Indonesia was offered a handful of palm nuts to feed its starving population, http://connectafrica.wordpress.com/headlines-international/ , so what does Nigeria need