NIGERIA IS MORE THAN CAPABLE OF SURVIVING A WORSE OUTBREAK

  Although Nigeria is seen by many as a mere geographical expression, experience has continuously proved the contrary, the 100 years this year of inter-relationship between what used to be the northern and the southern protectorate of the British empire now Nigeria from 1960, has shown that Nigeria is much more than a mere geographical expression, unfortunately though most self-centered politicians and their cohorts inside and outside the shores of our great country are using our rich and positive diversity to create unhealthy tensions that have in recent times jeopardized and compromised the unity and the continuity of our nation as one indivisible entity.

  But Nigerians are a very special kind of people with a very uncommon mental capacity to surmount their myriad problems no matter how insurmountable they appear at first. Like every country, we have our challenges, the most important of all being bad leadership and corruption. And that is the area every Nigerian is expected to focus on and not the trivialities that our corrupt political elites are always selfishly diverting our attention to for their insatiable benefits at the detriment of our common good.

  Experience has shown that each time Nigerians come together and patriotically face their problems, we always come out victorious and the amount of Nigerians managing and leading important world institutions with the highest level of efficiency and professionalism shows that Nigeria as a nation is not short of credible, efficient and well trained persons to assume any leadership position within and outside our country. What is apparently wrong then is the status quo installed in our country by a handful of antipatriotic Nigerians most of who selfishly work to defend foreign interests at the expense of our nation.

  We are currently living in one of those rare seasons when it is a worldwide trend and a pride to be related to Nigeria, our nation, often regarded as a third world country with very limited infrastructures but that has been adequately able to contain the spread of the Ebola virus that came into our country through a Liberian infected patient. The lesson from that is that Nigeria and Nigerians are more than capable of making things work for our common benefit if we so desire. We must therefore apply the same zeal, the same level of patriotism, professionalism, sacrifice and love exhibited during this dreadful Ebola outbreak to fight other mortal and devastating viruses that are equally killing our people and withholding our advancement as a nation, such as Ignorance, corruption, intolerance, disunity, impunity, nepotism, favoritism and all other vices, especially used by undesirable elements in our political field to ensure that the real dividends of democracy does not get to the people.

  The message is clear; if we can beat the Ebola we can beat any other challenges on our part to a long overdue greatness. Let us prove to those who doubt that Nigeria will survive the 2015 deadline that Nigeria has come to stay.