What I hate the most about Nigeria is not the bad leadership, as bad as that is; bad leadership is everywhere. Besides, bad leadership itself is not the problem, it is simply a symptom of a deeper sickness that involves the entire people. The leaders did not put themselves there; we choose the kind of people we want.
What I hate the most about Nigeria is not the poverty or even the insecurity in the land. Poverty is a global issue and it will be with us for a long time. Jesus himself said we will always have the poor with us. And insecurity is, sadly, a global issue too. In fact Nigeria is not even among the top most insecure nations on earth.
What I hate about the most about Nigeria is not the battered economy or nationwide inflation.
What I hate the most about Nigeria is the kind of culture we are building. The very things that are supposed to make our nation beautiful happen to be the very things we use to tarnish the image of our nation; what am I talking about?
I am talking about our attitude towards our country and towards each other. Have you ever met a people who hate or despise the very land they came from? The very place their ancestors lived? The place their fathers fought for and defended with their blood and sweat and tears? Well, you have met Nigerians. (Sorry, I am not talking about Kemi Badenoch).
A fully literate and healthy Nigerian will look at you and call his country a zoo. A Nigerian will go on a global platform to insult the land of his birth and denigrate his very own people. A Nigerian thinks nothing of portraying his country in a terrible light simply because he is not the one benefitting from the national cake.
But it’s even worse. The way Nigerians see nothing in insulting other tribes or ethnic groups. The way Igbos and Yorubas are always at loggerheads on social media is so embarrassing. The way the “ethnic warriors” and “tribalists” are always quick on any post that involves a name like Emeka, Tunde or Musa. I sometimes want cover my face in shame whenever I see these things.
We are building and promoting a culture of hate. Hate towards our country and hate towards our countrymen.
The most embarrassing thing is that, we always think that when we condemn and deride Nigeria or fellow Nigerians on the media, we (or our own people) will somehow be respected. But it doesn’t work that way. When An Igbo person and Yoruba person insult themselves on social media, what a Ghanaian or Tunisian sees is Nigeria fighting itself. Simple.
You might feel like you identify more as an Igbo man or a Yoruba man than as a Nigerian. There is nothing wrong with that, But the world will always identify you as a NIGERIAN whether you want it or not, at least, for the foreseeable future.
You do not have to love Nigeria or be a patriot, but don’t disparage or condemn your country. Stop washing our dirty linens in public; the world will only laugh at us. We are disgracing ourselves in the name of “catching cruise.”
Please Stop!

Instead of moralizing on this for ever, let us face the REALITY. The reality is that we were forced to become one country against our clear differences. If democracy is real, let's do a referendum and renegotiate Nigeria.

docdes:
Instead of moralizing on this for ever, let us face the REALITY. The reality is that we were forced to become one country against our clear differences. If democracy is real, let's do a referendum and renegotiate Nigeria.

Honestly, I sometimes wish it will happen, even though we, the non-muslims in the north will suffer the most from it. But I sometimes wish it will happen. Let the country break into its different ethnic nations. Even if not for anything, but just so we will be exposed. Just so we will see our own hypocrisy. The north has always taken the blame square in the face without throwing shades or giving blames and that is making it even stronger than the rest will ever know. The other nations in the south who, for some reasons, even though they are ethnically homogeneous, could not leverage on that common cultural strength to assert themselves, are there fighting each other on social media. The people in the north are hardly ever vocal on social media, not because they enjoy the corruption in the government, but they are not wailers. They are the worst victims of corrupt leadership in Nigeria, yet they seem more united even though they have nothing in common culturally, except for those who are muslims. That is why Nigeria will never break up unless the north allows it, which I believe, is not going to happen any decade soon; maybe, not even this century.

All those things you mentioned can be corrected with proper orientation of our country men and women.

Until we stop seeing 'japa' as a form of success, we would keep breeding Nigerians who don't appreciate their motherland. China that is a world power today was once like Nigeria, if not worse.. guess how they became world power, they leveraged on their population to industrialize and start manufacturing. This is where Nigeria got it wrong, prioritizing TRADE before INDUSTRY.

Sadly the looters we elect to National Assembly are so clueless about the ugly situation on ground and how to remedy it.. same carrot and stick approach with no result. They are busy padding budgets, stealing monies meant for nation building.

For Nigeria to get better we will need an intelligent and purposeful dictator.

This democracy that we are practicing in Nigeria will not work because we lack the requisite values for it to work; for one we lack basic idea of statehood. Two, we don't even understand what accountability really means that's why INEC will be a joke till will change our ways.

I stand corrected though but we can't get it right with the present system of government that we practice in this country.

I knew you are igbo lol you want biafra you still have problems among your tribe a situation whereby Anambrapeoplebelieve that he/she is more igbo than Ebonyi people even Enugu and Abia ars also like cat and rat. Also mbaise people dont see themselves as igbo. This one Nigeria really a blessing in disguise for you igbo.

docdes:
Instead of moralizing on this for ever, let us face the REALITY. The reality is that we were forced to become one country against our clear differences. If democracy is real, let's do a referendum and renegotiate Nigeria.

Casham:
What I hate the most about Nigeria is not the bad leadership, as bad as that is; bad leadership is everywhere. Besides, bad leadership itself is not the problem, it is simply a symptom of a deeper sickness that involves the entire people. The leaders did not put themselves there; we choose the kind of people we want.
What I hate the most about Nigeria is not the poverty or even the insecurity in the land. Poverty is a global issue and it will be with us for a long time. Jesus himself said we will always have the poor with us. And insecurity is, sadly, a global issue too. In fact Nigeria is not even among the top most insecure nations on earth.
What I hate about the most about Nigeria is not the battered economy or nationwide inflation.
What I hate the most about Nigeria is the kind of culture we are building. The very things that are supposed to make our nation beautiful happen to be the very things we use to tarnish the image of our nation; what am I talking about?
I am talking about our attitude towards our country and towards each other. Have you ever met a people who hate or despise the very land they came from? The very place their ancestors lived? The place their fathers fought for and defended with their blood and sweat and tears? Well, you have met Nigerians. (Sorry, I am not talking about Kemi Badenoch).
A fully literate and healthy Nigerian will look at you and call his country a zoo. A Nigerian will go on a global platform to insult the land of his birth and denigrate his very own people. A Nigerian thinks nothing of portraying his country in a terrible light simply because he is not the one benefitting from the national cake.
But it’s even worse. The way Nigerians see nothing in insulting other tribes or ethnic groups. The way Igbos and Yorubas are always at loggerheads on social media is so embarrassing. The way the “ethnic warriors” and “tribalists” are always quick on any post that involves a name like Emeka, Tunde or Musa. I sometimes want cover my face in shame whenever I see these things.
We are building and promoting a culture of hate. Hate towards our country and hate towards our countrymen.
The most embarrassing thing is that, we always think that when we condemn and deride Nigeria or fellow Nigerians on the media, we (or our own people) will somehow be respected. But it doesn’t work that way. When An Igbo person and Yoruba person insult themselves on social media, what a Ghanaian or Tunisian sees is Nigeria fighting itself. Simple.
You might feel like you identify more as an Igbo man or a Yoruba man than as a Nigerian. There is nothing wrong with that, But the world will always identify you as a NIGERIAN whether you want it or not, at least, for the foreseeable future.
You do not have to love Nigeria or be a patriot, but don’t disparage or condemn your country. Stop washing our dirty linens in public; the world will only laugh at us. We are disgracing ourselves in the name of “catching cruise.”
Please Stop!

Our attitude is a symptom of a failed nation

Nigerians love Nigeria

Any part of Nigeria that works, Nigerians love and defend it

The unity among northern people is largely driven by widespread of ignorance, fear, and illiteracy. They are reluctant to speak out because majority have settled for less, plus manipulation from their religious leaders. Talk against government, they quickly use Quran to control them by pointing to a verse that speaks against such.

Casham:

Honestly, I sometimes wish it will happen, even though we, the non-muslims in the north will suffer the most from it. But I sometimes wish it will happen. Let the country break into its different ethnic nations. Even if not for anything, but just so we will be exposed. Just so we will see our own hypocrisy. The north has always taken the blame square in the face without throwing shades or giving blames and that is making it even stronger than the rest will ever know. The other nations in the south who, for some reasons, even though they are ethnically homogeneous, could not leverage on that common cultural strength to assert themselves, are there fighting each other on social media. The people in the north are hardly ever vocal on social media, not because they enjoy the corruption in the government, but they are not wailers. They are the worst victims of corrupt leadership in Nigeria, yet they seem more united even though they have nothing in common culturally, except for those who are muslims. That is why Nigeria will never break up unless the north allows it, which I believe, is not going to happen any decade soon; maybe, not even this century.

TheFreshVanilla:
The unity among northern people is largely driven by widespread of ignorance, fear, and illiteracy. They are reluctant to speak out because majority have settled for less, plus manipulation from their religious leaders. Talk against government, they quickly use Quran to control them by pointing to a verse that speaks against such.

Unity among the the northern people is driven by fear (Yes), but not by ignorance or illiteracy. I think the major factor is religion. Therefore, the fear is majorly religious. About 60% of the people in the north are muslims, and they are the ones in power.

There is illiteracy in the North, (Yes), but they are not ignorant. Even that is, strictly speaking mostly among the Muslim Hausa speaking people; the ones we call Almajiris. (Even these ones are not completely illiterate, they can read and write Arabic texts). They are always up to date with political happenings in and around the nation and the World at large. So do not be deceived, an average Northerner is well educated and and always aware of political happenings. They are only loyal to a religion that seem to always make them choose to settle for less, as you said. And the political and religious leaders always use that to their advantage.
Many of us, non-muslim northerners also choose to resign ourselves to just taking care of our immediate family and nothing else. We do not fight for power or too much because we know we might either end up killed (Patrick Yakowa, Ishaku, etc,) or frustrated. We belong nowhere (We are not fully Northerners because we are not Muslims, and even though many are Christians, the South do not consider us among themselves).
So yes, We are driven by fear; fear of the powers that be in the North and of offending the Muslim majority, and fear of not belonging. I wish we could be as stubborn as the Igbos or as competitive as the Yorubas. We do not have the numbers or the resources with which to defend ourselves when $hit hits the fan. I wish we are ethnically homogenous.