Nigeria at 60: a shaky natioñ or a dying union?

 A beautiful Logo for our celebration but the nation is far from feeling beautiful. Usually when a person is told she is beautiful, she feels appreciated or when your possession is termed beautiful, you feel a sense of worth.

Nigerians today, have nothing but gratitude  to be alive in the face of daunting challenges facing the nation.

At 60 very few Nigerians will believe, we are where we should be. After several military Coups, a 30 month civil war, the effects of which are enough to straighten us but no. 

The first ever coup was about corruption. Today, we are more corrupt than ever. The civil war was about injustice, today we are more unjust.

Insecurity is the order of the day and yet our spendings on security are mind boggling.

So many schools and very many professors but our society is not academic in thought and deed.

Very many schools of agriculture and yet we not only import food aplenty, our agricultural practices are still basic and seasonal, denying us of any atom of food security and food prices unaffordable.

Our politics is getting worse by the day, electoral choice and campaigns still barbaric and lacking in commonsense.

Our data collection is still backward to say the least. Our population data are backward and gross.

Entertainment remains the only bright spot of our nation at 60. Musicians pulling crowds and winning international awards. Our sportsmen are trying in spite of odds.

Our youths are neglected and relegated into irrelevance as gerontocracy seems to be the order of the day. The youths are left uncared for and not reckoned with.

At best any sign of affluence on their path is met with suspicion, unsurprisingly, as they are expected to wait for Godot.

Wait, they will not, be the rulers want it or not, for in the words of John F. Kennedy 'those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.'