Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Director General, World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and a former president, Nigeria Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, among other notable Nigerians proffered solutions to the challenges facing the country.

They spoke on Saturday at the 113th anniversary of King’s College. The anniversary lecture titled, ‘Building the Nigeria of our dreams,’ was organised by the King’s College Old Boys’ Association.

Obasanjo, who led the King’s Week 2022 colloquium which was held at the Kings College, Lagos, said Nigeria as a country was poor, insecure, and had other challenges because of its choice of leaders.

‘‘We are politically divided, economically disunited we are nowhere, we are down the drain. Diplomatically, Nigeria is not at the table. Before we had sent troops to Sudan, Serria Lone but today, we can’t send troops to the Republic of Benin. There are three races in the world, white, yellow, and black. For now, America is leading the whites, the Chinese is leading the yellow race, and Nigeria with 225m people is created by God to lead the black race. When we stop disappointing ourselves we can take care of the continent and the black race. Nigeria has no business with poverty, insecurity, or political division.

‘‘It is the advertently or inadvertently choice of our leaders. It is not God’s choice for us. If God hasn’t chosen that for us we can do better. For Nigeria, we have done a few things right but we have not continued to do it right.’’

In her opinion, Okonjo-Iweala said that Nigeria lacks a social contract that would guide the nation in the management of its resources.

She said, ‘‘Nigeria can fight poverty, Improve people’s life if it is properly managed. Our revenue sources are not diversified we depend only on one revenue. Nigeria lacks a sacrosanct social contract in the country; there should be a guideline that dictates certain things that should be sacrosanct. We should have guiding principles to decide how we manage, save, spend and take vigorous actions on our revenues. As a country, we need to have certain indicators of how our economy should be governed. If we do this, we have so much to gain.”

Agbakoba said, ‘‘We have been to a lot of conferences it is time for us to face the real question, we will never come out of this if we don’t sit and ask ourselves if we are really one until the infractions are tackled.’’

For more : https://www.chronicle.ng/2022/09/nigeria-is-politically-divided-economically-disunited-obasanjo/

The solution to our problem is a revolution. This civilization is weak, faulty and unworthy.

In the future, God willing, the coming emperor "The Unity" will establish his New Era, and this planet will be saved.

Worse is people are still playing tribalism instead of joining hands to find a lasting solution.

Nigeria is not suppose to be one country But Yoruba Muslims are unity beggars

Obasanjo you are part of the problems bedeviling this country. The way you talk like a saint these days is annoying.