Nigeria and Nigerians are often in the news for bad things. However that does not mean we should look down on ourselves. Here are a few things we can be proud of....


Religion: Hate us if you will but Nigerians are religious people; we don’t play with our Friday and Sunday worships. In fact many of us are so zealous we are able to attend mid-week services including a vigil. Doesn’t matter if many of these zealots are civil servants who inflate contracts to accommodate their bribes; politicians who rape the treasury so they can live large; policemen who gleefully arraign the innocent so the guilty can walk free; building contractors who use substandard materials all for an extra buck; the list is endless. Never mind your sin, perception is reality.



Unity: Nigerians are united never mind what the media tells you. We are united on one purpose; making sure we do all we can individually to rip the country off for our generations unborn. Or how else can you explain why lobbyists and government policy makers will gladly frustrate an indigenous business over a foreign one? Or why our leaders would collectively frustrate the system so it doesn’t work, only for their families to enjoy healthcare, education and tourism in foreign lands? While they impoverish their motherland, they develop others. We are surely united, in a Mutual Assured Destruction.




Resilience: We are resilient people; the ‘rich and powerful’ put us through hell because they know we will survive. For it is only in Nigeria an employee continues to borrow money to transport himself to work for an employer who owes him. A tenant will even after paying rent and all manner of dues, will live without water and light uncomplainingly least his landlord accuse him of ingratitude. You see in Nigeria we endure anything because we understand that might is right. When it is your turn, you simply do worse.




Humility: Humility is a virtue and we have got that in abundance. This explains why a security agent will happily in the full glare of news cameras and the world, wipe a minister’s shoes with a handkerchief. And why it is a taboo for a politician’s wife to carry her own hand bag; it has to be carried by a police (bag) woman. Even corporate executives are not left out. In a bid to keep our jobs and perhaps ensnare undeserved promotions, many a man or woman has gone plate or car washing in his boss’s house. If that is not a testament of humility, I don’t know what is.


I am a proud Nigerian, dont know about you---

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