I woke up this morning with the
Thoughts of Nigeria my beloved country
A country endowed with vast resources
Human capital, mineral resources, cash crops, good weather etc
A country that was once a beauty to behold
Has been made a laughing stock in the comity of nations

How did we get to where we are?
How did it all start?
I remember as a young boy seeing
Some of my “bros” who has just graduated
And just started work buying Volkswagen Beetle “tear rubber”
As an undergraduate in the early 80s
I had breakfast, lunch and dinner for N1.50 (One Naira, Fifty kobo)
I mean 50 kobo per meal (note this is not typographical error)
We were 3 in my room as “Jambites” and each of us paid N60 (Sixty Naira) as accommodation fees for a session.
This was the way we were until 1983 when the 2nd republic civilian government was overthrown by the military junta. That regime removed food from our tables as undergraduates. They stopped the universities from getting involved with our feeding. Feeding became “pay as you go”. For me that marked the beginning of the commercialisation of education in Nigeria. In less than two years we had another coup d’etat led by one gap-toothed general who calls himself the “evil genius”. He was to become the military president of Nigeria from 1985 – 1993 when he decided to “step aside”. It was during his reign that Nigeria began this “humpty dumpty” unending fall. He it was who started the devaluation of the Naira with his Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). The Naira has been falling abysmally since then. Nigerians became buyers of second hand cars (aka ‘Tokunbo’ cars), wearers of second hand clothes (aka ‘bend down boutique’). Corruption was institutionalised and it became our lifestyle. That was the period Nigerians began to lose its core values of hard work as many emergency millionaires emerged via 419 and drug deals. Banks lost their professionalism and became deluded (which they still are till date). They became flamboyant which has given birth to rogue bankers that we have today. It was also in the days of this general that Nigerians were ushered into the era of unresolved murder cases. We all remember Dele Giwa and the parcel bomb.
This trend that began in 1985 has continued in a geometric progression till date. It is no longer a secret that we have multi-billionaires and trillionaires who are so not by virtue of their hard work but by being kleptomaniacs. People with unbridle mania for stealing from our common wealth.
Nigerians no longer have values for human life. Lives can be snuffed out of people and nothing happens to the culprits. Just take a list at some of the unresolved murders of very prominent Nigerians (we are not talking about thousands of poor people who have been murdered in cold blood). Pa Alfred Rewane, Harry Marshall, Dipo Dina, Funsho Williams, Godwin Agbroko, Bola Ige (killed when he was the Attorney General of Nigeria) and just last week the Special Personal Assistant to Edo state governor was added to the list. Nobody knows the next person on the list.
To know that it is in this same Nigeria that Chief Eji Gbadero a wealthy man was hanged for killing a certain poor man in an attempt to snatch his (the poor man’s) plot of land is unbelievable. It shows the extent to which the discharge of justice has degenerated into in the Nigeria of today. The land has been desecrated by those who swore to uphold its constitution. In the Nigeria of today, killers go about boasting and threatening people with death threats and nothing happens. They have advanced further by threatening their state governors, commissioners etc. The police cannot investigate them nor call them to order because they are the people in power and the owners of Nigeria.
To you killers (planners and executors), I have news for you.
Except you repent, this is what awaits you.
i. You will die unsung (Pro 11:7; 11:10; 24:20)
ii. You will never go to your grave in peace (Gen 9:6; I Kings 2:5-6, 28-33; Mt 26:51-52; Rev 13:10)
iii. You will know no peace all your days (Gen 4:10-14; Isaiah 48:22; 57:21)
iv. You will reap all you have sown (Gal 6:7; Rom 2:6; Ps 62:12; Pro 24:12)
v. Your children, grand children and great grand children will reap from all you have sown (I Kings 2:32; 2 Sam 21:1-6; Ex 20:5; Num 14:18; I Kings 21:29)
Some of my readers might be saying what type of pastor is this? Cursing people? I am not cursing anybody, I am only reminding all concerned of what the Lord has in store for killers like them (Pro 28:17).
To you politicians and government contractors who will stop at nothing in impoverishing further the already pauperised people of Nigeria, you live as if you will not die one day, go read Luke 16:19-31 and know more about your end. Like my old school mate Ogaga Ifowodo wrote recently in his article on Sahara Reporters, Nigeria’s corrupt leaders amass wealth as if there is reincarnation whereby they rise again after their death and come back to continue from where they stopped in their previous life. Let me remind you if you don’t already know that the money you are amassing at the detriment of your fellow citizens will amount to nothing when you die (Ps 49:10; Pro 13:11; 11:4; 22:16; 27:24; 10:25). If you do not repent when you die you will go to hell.
What does it profit you seeing your fellow Nigerians live in abject poverty while you the leaders who once went to school in slippers live in opulence and comfort? If the Nigeria state was like this when you were growing up, do you think that your parents would have been able to send you to private secondary schools and universities? Why can’t you our leaders give back to the society what it gave to you? Why can’t you make Nigeria a better place to live for all of us? Why can’t qualitative education be available to the children of the poor peasant farmer, fisherman etc? Why can’t jobs be available to our young people roaning the streets of Nigeria today? What does it take to create jobs for our graduates? What are you doing about our hospitals? Are they still mere consulting clinics? Think about these and resolve to turn things around for the better.
It is time for us the church leaders to blaze the trail by living the life of Christ. Let us stop polluting the minds of our youths with our profane prosperity messages. Our Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 12:15 says “Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.”
Let us stop castigating fellow ministers who speak up for the masses of our society and against the injustice prevalent upon the land. Let us be bold to speak against the evil in our society. It is part of our calling as ministers (Pro 28:4; 1 Kings 18:15-18; Pro 31:8-9). Your keeping quiet, especially if you are a well respected minister in the society is not helping matters as it is an ill wind that blows no one any good.

The time has come for all our leaders and those of us who are being led to turn from our wicked ways and ask God to have mercy on us.

GOD Bless You.

see what oyibo has turned my people into.