What Else Could Nigeria Be?

By Dr jarlat Uche opara

Oftentimes we behave and react like people who live within the operational drive of emotions against reasoning. Those who are controlled by the tickling feelings of sentiments against the hard truth and reality of empirical facts.

What else would Nigeria be if not a country of particular concern? Forget about the diplomatic meaning of what it means and focus on the basic English meaning of it. When one says that someone or something is of particular concern what does it mean? It means something or someone that causes worries, trepidation, needing attention to rescue from the depth of shame, malfunctioning and operational deficiency.

Apart from the religious genocidal impact on Christains what else made Nigeria a country of particular concern? A lot. They are legion and those concerns have actually placed Nigeria on the last rung of social justice, fairness, equity and positive maximisation of her natural resources.

Nigeria is a big country of particular concern, still crawling when she should be walking and running. Still begging when she should be self sustaining. Still borrowing when all she has would have placed her on the podium of world benefactors.

Lay aside President Trump’ Country of particular concern, Nigeria has been a country of great concern. Endowed with crude oil, importing fuel with no functional refinery, even when billions of naira had been invested on the refineries. Isn’t this enough of concern?

The way parents would feel concerned about their 60 years old child still crawling and mumbling with words, lacking distinct and clarity in speech is the way we should all feel about Nigeria.

Nigeria is a country of particular concern not only from the religious genocidal perceptive but from a wide spectrum of total deficiencies that have held her down, eating crumps from a global table she was meant to sit and eat as a Queen she is destined to be.

She is a country of particular concern in electoral fraud. A country of particular concern on corruption. A country of particular concern on nepotism and cronyism.

Nigeria is a country in ICU( Intensive Care Unit) , with oxygen affixed on its nose for survival. She isn’t just a country of particular concern, rather one that needs emergency treatment with all the best hands working to pull her out from a coma zone. A lot is eating this country into a skeleton. Religious genocide seems the least.

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