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WHEN WILL NIGERIA MAKE ME PROUD?



WHEN WILL NIGERIA MAKE ME PROUD?

With my sticks firmly gripped and centered within the moving balance of the rowing bike tire, my white turned brownish pants, naked upright skin and the excitement filled atmosphere with a couple of other kids rowing along the streets, suddenly; the outburst, shouting and screaming of excitement compounded the social atmosphere with jumping and singing soon staging ; up NEPA!!!!!!!! Won ti mu ina de, up Nepa!!!!!!!!won ti mu ina de...........(Yoruba chorus). Dropping my tire and sticks along with other kids doing same; I headed to our room to catch a glimpse of the recap of one of my best cartoon shows (#tele tubbies , you know nah, lag kids!), after balancing well on the couching chair with dust covered legs , in anticipation for an interesting showdown, the TV suddenly turned dark and phased out followed with incessant wailings, left right and from other corners ; Oloriburuku (unfortunate being) ni Awon Nepa yio, Aye woon ko ni daaa ooo ( it shall not be well with NEPA people oo) Chai e. Such wailings have not even ceased after years of my transitory growth from a kid to adult hood in my own Country.
I remember my groaning as a kid on public water facilities, most of us whose families couldn't afford to drill a bore hole or a well, where always at losing end, as many of those who could, lorded it over us and behaved as they loved on what they assumed is their self developed water facility.
Our public schools (mostly primary and secondary)have continued 2 be scary areas as far as the sanity of  educational institutions should accrue to in structure and quality; quite alarming is the nature of this devastation in Northern Nigeria; where students are out rightly pushed from one class 2 another whether they score as low as 14℅or 18%..... /100. You will hear; u dare not repeat those students. Physical structures are nothing to write home about, conduct is also zero, as students flee schools during class periods as act of truancy (which is an inclusive feature of all public schools in this nation) and teachers row their parole all around, selling and buying, and leaving school premises for other more important issues as they deem it. I once had the opportunity to be enrolled in a public school in Lagos state, and I was all tears because the average treatment and physical infrastructure were negligent. I tanked my GOD till date that He saved my head.
 Back in school (from primary - university) we football enthusiast both in play and cheering ; got no chances of progression 2 achieve our football dreams in at least any Nigerian football club or academy; all we heard was principal's cup that was no longer principal, Aspire Africa soccer clinic that was impotent. You will soon hear that to enter the golden eagles team one has 2 know the father of the daddy of NFF's president.
It’s quite devastating as government regimes have succeeded themselves over the years, but since I was young and now that I'm getting old; I cannot account for a profound developmental impact that was fast tracked by any Successive Government in Nigeria.
I hate it when I remember that as a kid; I criticized GOD for creating me in a Black man's land, and I lusted after the lives of the white kids I saw in jumanji, Tele tubbies and other American and European kiddies show. Up on till now many roads that have been grossly dilapidated since I was a kid still lie there smiling and saying we want to outlast you as my Country is a Nation where Problems struggle it out with people and outlive them, where goodness become seasonal rain and drought for the masses; it’s a sorry situation; but one thing I know; is that this problems will never outlive me, Nigeria has only but 1 option; and that's for her to work for the good of all her citizens.
GOD bless Nigeria.

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