What a tough time for NIGERIA, to many, it is as if the clocks had rolled back to the era of hardship and the time of the Great Depression. Company upon company declared bankruptcy. High rate of unemployment soared, economic meltdown, abject poverty and unsolved assassinations. The "severe and prolonged recession," as it is dubbed by the media, sent ripples of depression across Nigeria.

Politicians used the depressed state of the country to their advantages. It provided a great opportunity to  highlight the failures, shortcomings and faults of the opposite political party.

PDP members found in it an opportunity to blame the APC adminstration which is in charge. Reciprocally, the APC, in turns blame the "PDP adminstrations that created the problems" which the APC had inherited. Everybody is fixing the blame nobody is fixing the problem.

The problems persisted and grew, the recession ran rampant across the length and breath of the country unit nearly everyone is affected by it. No one is immune. I personally, felt it as a student of a Federal University. No one could deny the fact that the country has no problems. But the biggest problem we have is our attitude toward the economic problems.

Negative thinking spread like a plague through all levels of society. It was not easy to protect self from the infection of negative thinking, which spread by word of mouth, by conversations with friends as well as strangers, by Television, Social Media, and by radio news reports.

It spread quickly because in recessive times the tendency is to react negatively. Once an organism, a business, a life, or a country is infected with negative thinking, the infection attacks the mind, the heart, and the soul like termites that secretly gnaw away at the emotional support system.

Jauhar Salihu, is from Jos, Plateau State.
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