Reflecting on Nigeria’s Independence Day, Challenges, Hope, and the Path Forward

Dear Nigerians

Dear Nigerians.

Happy Independence day. When our fathers or forefathers celebrated this milestone on October 1, 960, for the first time. They believed it was something good. They wore fashionable clothes and carried pieces of the green white green flags in joy and hope.

They believed it was something good. Perhaps, it is something good. Today, we own our nation. Like all projects worth anything, it becomes great by decisions. It also become worse by decisions. Between 1960 to date. We have had festivals of decisions.

The collective and leadership decisions we had has brought us to this place. Where we thought we made great decisions we had unfortunate set backs that reversed it. And we plunged further into errors.

For instance at a point we decided it would be MKO Abiola to take us to promise land. A dark wind refused that intention. We will never know if that decision would have truly taken us to the promise land.

Meanwhile, what is the promise land? Are we unto the promise land now? Any clue? Any answer? Cos what we know is the Naira has never behaved like our penises. Our population has seen increase upon increase. A direct sign that our male organs has maintained a more erected posture more than our currency.

The Naira has refused erection as a concept. The Naira has behaved like the Vagina. It has collected all the rates thrown at it. Today the Dollar lords at it. And the issues are numerous. We are not a producing nation. Why? Because we do not have the infrastructure to produce.

We are a nation that shares N8000 to her citizen. We refuse to create national manufacturing projects. We consume. We borrow money to invest in projects that doesn’t support the erection of the Naira. But we are hopeful. We must continue in hope.

We must not keep demarketing the land. We must keep hope alive. We must work. We must offer solutions. The times are tough. It will get tougher because the dynamics keep changing. There are alternative currencies playing heavily in the economy.

For instance we have Destiny X betting platform for instance. It is a crypto betting platform that’s allows bettors place bets using USDT and other tokens. Imagine that. Well, more on that platform later.

Today, I’d like to celebrate you and yours. Happy independence day again. Our solutions will come. Our nation will win. It’s the only one we can truly call ours. We are all failures, nationally, irrespective of the parts of the world you live.

If Nigeria is not working. I call on all Nigerians. Think of the nation. And offer solutions.

Your October 1 spotter

Ediale

#ForTheCulture

PS: We will get there.

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