We are a nation of hypocrites. We are very religious but recently branded "a notoriously corrupt nation" by a 2012 research article.
Our high school students fail national exams. At a disturbing rate. The events in our society suggest that we may have lost moral values.
We have seemingly terrible life priorities. To make easy monies. At all costs. What is the cause of this decadence? Our government or ourselves? We may need years of intense studies to address these social problems. However, can we learn from public Nigerian datasets? In particular, can tweets from Nigeria suggest features that we need to focus on as a people that want to build a progressive nation?

Tweets from Nigeria were collected between 7:00 am and 10:00 pm (GMT + 1:00) daily from Sep 1, 2014 to Sep 5, 2014. A search was made for twenty most used words in the parsed 75,263 tweets. "Think" came out to be the least used word in this ranking. It was used 1,143
times (a rate of 1.5%). This was no surprise.

It is a fact that a people that think less will rot. A people whose priority is to watch news but not to make news will be at the mercies of others. A people that think less is a dependent nation. History has a lot to teach us about the fate of an unnecessarily dependent nation.

We will not base our conclusions on this basic data exploration. The data only reflects a tip of the iceberg of database being updated over a nine-month period. We nonetheless leave you to "think" more - a woman or man is what she or he thinks. We hope that a deep learning or mining of the data will turn out to suggest features that may effect our risks of not being counted a people of purpose but "a notoriously corrupt nation".

well said