From Kaura Namoda to Otuoke, Iseyin to Gashua, Mbaise to Kotangora, or Badagry to Bakassi, the story is the same, cries of unease, difficulty in meeting basic needs of human existence, and everyone now asking some fundamental questions.....how did we get to this point??? why do we now find it difficult not only to feed, but to trust one another in today's Nigeria? What happened to the legendary Nigeria never say die spirit?

There is however a new horizon of hope. Amidst these sense of despair and despondence, there is a burning  among Nigerians to ride the storm. We shall overcome this recession. We shall overcome this political tension. We shall go back to the good old Nigeria, when the Hausa man was elected into the Eastern House of Assembly in the 1950s, when Chief Okonkwo and Sons established a fledging commodity produce market in Ksno, and later settled in the current Kwankwaso Community, originally called Okonkwo and Sons Community. In those days, an Igbo man was a legislator in the Western House of Assembly. Nigerians crave for a return to those days.
From Kaura Namoda to Otuoke, Iseyin to Gashua, Mbaise to Kotangora, or Badagry to Bakassi, the story is the same, cries of unease, difficulty in meeting basic needs of human existence, and everyone now asking some fundamental questions.....how did we get to this point??? why do we now find it difficult not only to feed, but to trust one another in today's Nigeria? What happened to the legendary Nigeria never say die spirit?

There is however a new horizon of hope. Amidst these sense of despair and despondence, there is a burning  among Nigerians to ride the storm. We shall overcome this recession. We shall overcome this political tension. We shall go back to the good old Nigeria, when the Hausa man was elected into the Eastern House of Assembly in the 1950s, when Chief Okonkwo and Sons established a fledging commodity produce market in Ksno, and later settled in the current Kwankwaso Community, originally called Okonkwo and Sons Community. In those days, an Igbo man was a legislator in the Western House of Assembly. Nigerians crave for a return to those days.

This Nigeria of our dream is different from contemporary Nigeria where there is an elitist conspiracy to divide us along ethnic and religious fault  lines, markedly different from today's Nigeria where politicians start planning for the next election two years early, even when campaign promises have not been delivered up to 20%. It is different from today's Nigeria where we o not check up on our neighbours, relatives and friends regularly because we are very busy at work ..little wonder the rate of suicide has increased/ that is not the Nigeria of our collective dreams.

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