₦airaland Forum

What is the Greatest Problem of Nigeria?
-Insecurity? Unemployment? Tribalism? Religious Intolerance? Corruption?

Perhaps the greatest, yet insidious problem confronting Nigeria is the Lack of our Good Perception of her.
Think about it.
Every new year kicks off with negative and bleak prophecies from certain so called prophets. Doom prophets as I like to call them. This already launches the year into a bad start. We subconsciously expect it to go south (no pun intended).

Then the media paints it's own grim image of a hopelessly corrupt and insecure country to Nigerians and the international community. This further insinuates and exacerbates an already impoverished hopeless image of the country into our minds.

We ourselves further promote this gospel of a Hopeless Nigeria in our engagements, our chats, blogs, fora, while doing business, at the news stands, at our favorite mama put, even in the church.

They say, As A Man Thinketh, So He Is.

Honest question, what does the average Nigerian think of Nigeria? Better yet, what do you think of Nigeria?

While you ruminate over that question, think of the exponential effect of the hopeless and grim thoughts of the over 180 million Nigerians that make up our citizenry, not forgetting Nigerians in diaspora among others thinking ever so negatively and pessimistic of her.

USA had Kennedy, Black Americans had Martin Luther King Jr, Singapore had Lee Kwan Yew, SA had Mandela. Rwanda presently has Paul Kagame. Who do we have to Give Nigerians the True Picture of What Nigeria Is, What She Could Become?

The elections are upon us yet again. We don't need another politician, we've had those and they failed (woefully).

We need Visionaries.
But who is qualified to be our visionary?

Number 1: Corruption.
Solution: Jail all politicians above 55yrs for a minimum term of their exact age.

thesicilian:
Number 1: Corruption.
Solution: Jail all politicians above 55yrs for a minimum term of their exact age.

But that hasn't stopped the problem in Ghana.

GavelSlam:
Primitive Nigerians are not ready for the future.

Care to elaborate?

thesicilian:
Number 1: Corruption.
Solution: Jail all politicians above 55yrs for a minimum term of their exact age.

But you dey vex sir. Lol