Nigeria Detours
The trajectory of Nigeria's development has been far from smooth. History has led us through many hills and valleys, mountains and lowlands, rocks and hard places. Nigeria had been fed with tears as bread and had been drunk with woeful tears as water. Nigeria had been made a strife to her neighbours. We had become a byword and a proverb in the mouths of those who once benefitted from our glee. The enemies of Nigeria laugh her to scorn among themselves. The trajectory of Nigeria had been a diappointment to the nationalistic and patriotic founding fathers as they turn in their graves. There had been breaches to the Nigerian security apparatus and strangers had devoured luscious fruits of the Nigerian heritage. We had looked to men, arms, parties, places, hills and idols for the redemption of the Nigerian dream, all to no avail. In vain we had relied on helpless foreigners from the four corners of the planet. Where are those who despise the days of our small and meaningless beginnings