Nation Building - A Task For All!
In discussing Nigeria, sometimes it is difficult and sometimes nauseating because most often than not, what we dissipate our energy on are empheral and irrelevant. The core issues that we should be discussing are often relegated to the background, and often treated as non-existence. To me the Nigeria problems are multi-faceted and deep rooted but not unsumountable. What is required to solving them is the political will to solve them plus the concerted effort of all the citizenry. The root of our problems to me therefore lies with our values systems. The question is what creates value? Lie in the heart of value creation are education, exposure and experience. Our education which comes from formal and informal learning plays significant role in what we accept as the norm, and thrives that drive our actions and inactions. In other words, what we learn from the four wall of classrooms, religious settings, and interaction with fellow man from the home to the streets are germane to the ...