THERE WAS A COUNTRY?
The justice is usually just an illusion,
The law could just be manipulated not on action,
The people are dare to be intimidation,
The humanity are left with illiteracy and temptation.
striking is the action,and no one to help in education students where live stranded.
In one country,
Impartiality is just a slogan of taking action,
Indigenous rights has been taking away by action,
Cultural riches has blasphemies every reaction,
Commoners at any time in manipulation.
In one country,
Capitalism has thrives into people creation,
Imperialism of profited is there in people action,
Foreign capital investment is rampant in the nation,
Foreign natives has dominated the nation.
In one country,
The people where murdered and ambushed with less action,
The poor battling With hunger, while the rich are pouring dollars in their weddings,
The expenses of medicines and hospitals frightened ones existence,
The life of people has left with a sword and weapons to be hanged.
In one country,
The conquest has never ending the war of people life's,
The consequences of burdens responsibilities has never ends,
The death has been the ticket to an unknown domain's,
The fear and thought die away and hope commemorate one to the next world's.
In one country,
The people always answers the question of who am I,
The things keep on falling apart,
The questions keep on mingling who is to be blamed.
"Nothing to Celebrate" (Nigerian @62).
The consequences of the challenges are numerous but let me start with concurrent one which has become a depression now especially to the students of public universities, we have been particularly felt in the brain drain syndrome, and in some cases, under-rating of certificates from Nigerian universities by the international community, including in academics.
The country is presently going through a period of widespread insecurity, scandalous process of leadership recruitment, free-for-all looting and loss of faith in common humanity and the unity of Nigeria.
Bad leadership, at all levels has been our bane in this country as a people.
Unfortunately, 62 years down the line, Nigeria is in the league of countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, where terrorism has more or less become the order of the day. Not only that, development appears to be on the reverse gear in such a way that life in 2022 is worse than it was in the 1960s through 1970s and even 1980s,
It is well known that for close to seven months now public universities have been shut down as a result of the elongated strike which began as a warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Every attempt so far to resolve the impasse has ended in a fiasco, with the lecturers accusing the government of playing the ostrich and continuously dribbling them. This means that students and their parents have been pushed to the very limits by what would seem to be official decoys in which government pretends to be finding solutions while not offering anything material or substantive. Bear in mind that our universities compete with universities around the globe which have not been shut down for two days in the last two centuries. How then is Nigeria expected to compete or prioritise innovation which is at the heart of technological and scientific development?
We have been going backward for the past 62 years, so what we need now is prayers and right choice of a good leader
Nigeria at 62 has indeed come a long way, but it is dangerously tilting towards the precipice; the country is exhibiting all the traits of a failed state.
Yet another dimension of the nation’s travails is the fact that a surging number of our young men and women are saying bye to Nigeria through overseas travel to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Their argument is captured in the popular refrain that they have only one life to live and they cannot afford to squander it in the uncertainty and official tardiness characteristic of governance in Nigeria. To evoke Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka’s expression, the youth are saying that while they can still help matters they are not prepared to be part of what the writer called “the wasted generation.” Official response to this phenomenon is either to sidestep it or to argue that some Nigerians hitherto living abroad are also returning home, though they are silent about the numbers of the returnees.
so we have to rethink again about our future in this country especially the youth, because the challenges are numerous and to overcome them is the big matter now ahead. "Nothing to celebrate Nigerian @ 62.
Amb. Sanusi Muhseen Harun.
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