Nostradamus had referred to Nigeria when he talked about
the rising of a prince at the trigger of a gun. The world will
never be the same without one nation at the centre of Africa
with a gargantuan population of over 200 million people. For
those who prophesy dooms day, we will be missing quite a
lot about this country if it fails to exist beyond 2015.
There’s quite a lot we may never be opportune to laugh
about and so much too the world may never be opportune to
see.
If there is one country that can never solve her power
needs, that country is Nigeria. Our inability to produce
enough electricity for our homes and offices has being more
than a uniting factor. You may be wondering how. It’s often
great to hear people shout “up NEPA” in unison with
dancing and hooting following the shout like a football
match has being won. Nigerians defy their differences, even
neighbors who don’t speak to each other, will herald the
welcome of electric power with vehement tenacity.
It’s only in Nigeria that people brag about where they have
travelled to even if they haven’t gotten anywhere. There is
huge chance you will hear someone say, I’ve stayed in
almost every state in Nigeria just to prove a point that he
knows what he is saying and can be an authority. Often, it’s
not always true.
Nigerians want to stay all over Nigeria even if it only
happens in dreams.
Nigeria is home to the world’s fairly used items. We even
have our posh name for them, “tokunbo”. Without Nigeria,
there will be no store house for used machinery. We don’t
like brand new items, we love them better when they have
being used and disused in Europe and America. Europe and
America will do all they can to keep Nigeria one.
In Nigeria, titles come first. The average Nigerian naturally
has his gaze set at one traditional title early in life and will
defend himself for the title once he gets it. It is an entwined
attribute that sparks immediately some lucre touches
hands. Nigerians will naturally call you chief once you can
spare a few thousands to a few young lads and throw a
feasting birthday to mark your incorrect birthday. To whom
will the titles Obi, Obong, Oba, GCFR, GCON, CON, SAN etc.
be given if the nation breaks into parts. Those who already
hold these titles still want to keep them. Nigeria will remain
one so that our titles will still be there to aim at and to keep.
Big brother is a common political parlance for Nigeria’s
population and resources. Nigerians like position. An elder
wouldn’t tolerate the rise of a younger one. The very fact
that Nigeria has decided he is a big African brother is
enough to keep him fighting for that big brother position.
That means, he will do everything to ensure he remains at
that position. That everything means remaining Nigerians.
Nigerians are generally a people who lack knowledge of
their history. There are varying cock and bull legends of
descent that one cannot tell with certainty where the groups
in Nigeria are from. It is common for one to hear; our
ancestor arrived from Egypt, Israel, Ethiopia or came down
from Heaven. He had seven sons. The legends of almost all
ethnic divisons carry similar storyline. This confusion of
identity will ensure Nigerians find their identity at being
Nigerians.
In Nigeria, traveling out of the country means you are well
to do even if you had to go in a container without
documents. It is a natural tendency for Nigerians to prove
they’ve being outside the country by their Americanizing of
voice accent and putting on blinks even if they had to cross
over the border into Benin republic. Its good international
Nigerians have Nigeria to return to where they can show off
their latest accents and cheap fairly used chains. Because
of them, Nigeria will remain one.
Nigerians like to brag about Nigerians even if we are not in
any way affected by them. We checkout for a Nigerian or
Nigerian institution on any international list and query why a
Nigerian national or institution isn’t in the list, even when
they are not qualified. We have this strong tendency to take
sides on our Nigerians who are doing well even if other
nationals do better. You would hear statements like
Enyeama should have won the African footballer of the year
ahead of Yaya Toure. Who will defend Nigerians if we don’t
have Nigeria?
Nigeria is world copying capital. We don’t like original
things. We love to repeat what has being done in foreign
land. We will often make compares between our land and
say the United States or Europe. If it’s possible, we could
have the entire world in Nigeria. We often get angry with
ourselves for not catching up with the best of the world. If
Nigeria does not exist, which country will we have to
compare with America and Europe and bring the world to?
None, so Nigeria will remain one for good compare.
Nigeria produces the greatest number of pastors in the
world. It’s a normal Nigerian spirit to do spiritual things in
big ways. We have some of the biggest congregations in the
world and our pastors have mega churches in Europe, Asia
and America. The world knows Nigeria is Christianity’s
capital with millions of missionaries scattered across the
world. Who will sponsor God’s missionary duties to the
world if there is no Nigeria? Non. Nigerian pastors will pray
all they can to keep Nigeria one.
Anyone who has to do anything in Nigeria has to do it in a
big way and expect fast profit. The Nigerian mentality is
“God must bless your hustle immediately.” Nigerians are
generally inpatient. They want fast result. If you think you
need results fast, get a Nigerian to head your marketing
department and give him a strange timeline.
Nigerians are known to succeed in very difficult situations
because of a system called the Naija way. The system isn’t
at all defined but it flows in the blood stream of every
Nigerian. The world will miss the Naija system if Nigeria
divides, a situation many multinational companies won’t
allow.
Nigerians love freebies. Well, it’s a culture here to have
things for free or almost free. The average Nigerian can get
anything at the best bargain and often at the loss of the
seller. Mouths are always sugar coated that the seller often
sells the product before realizing that he has sold it at a
loss. The system being applied is yet to become a global
law. The world will miss this new law if Nigeria divides.
Nigeria boasts of some of Africa’s most famous stand up
comedians. We love to laugh and God has blessed us with a
plethora of laughing machines to feed us with laughter. We
export comedy to the world like we were born to laugh and
some even say we are the happiest people in the world.
Could there be better laughers elsewhere? How about our
comedians? Is there chance there may be better comedians
outside here? No. The world is aware Nigerians are gifted
laughing machines and they would do all they can do to
keep the laughing nation.
Only Nigerians understand Nigerians. No one trusts
anybody. Nigerians often look suspiciously at their fellow
Nigerians and will make promises cheek in mouth. Truth is
often relative and can change in the direction of lucre. Even
brothers of the same ideology find it hard to agree. It will
take unity to divide Nigeria and this unity can never arrive
when no one trusts anybody.
America and Europe cannot divide Nigeria. Nigerians know
how to unite against external enemies. They have proved it
with Ebola and Bokoharam. They often find it difficult
though to unite for the benefit of themselves.
When a game of football is being played by black men on
green jerseys, Nigerians often assume the players are
Nigerians. We love football and quarrelling neighbors will
give up their quarrel over a game of football, hug themselves
over a goal, talk of how impressive the players had played
and return to their quarrel immediately the game is over. As
long as the game of football continues to involve Nigeria,
forget about division.
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