You refer to the likes of George Weah, Wycleff Jean et co and their personal sacrifices. Fair enough! what you obviously don’t refer to is what happened to their efforts in the end and most importantly, why! Ever wondered why Weah quit the Liberian Lone Star? No? Perhaps you need to find out more about that.

No amount of selflessness from one individual can bring about anything good if that selflessness is not shared by those who surround them. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana is another particularly clear example of that.

Selfishness, greed, and the like, never create but rather destroy. Building a nation (and I mean a real nation) is a collective… it’s a WE!

I have read my post over (and over) again, and still see nothing judgmental about it. I clearly am not trying to find fault anywhere. The faults are there for all to see, I (just like the author) am only pointing them out.

Tell me, since when has critiquing anything amounted to being judgmental? Some people open themselves to criticism , in order to better themselves, but we would rather prefer to hide (and even accept) our flaws and remain in folly.

A serious problem I feel, we as Nigerians (I dare say West Africans) have is our incessant ability to shield and even defend wrong doing when it is clear for all to see, almost always for the same reason that you are right now- there is no place like home

You seem to be a fan of wise sayings. I’m sure you’ve no doubt heard this one

Only someone looking at you can tell you when you have something on your face.

Like a song writer somewhere wrote; “If I’m wrong, then I don’t ever want to be right”. In the same vein, if speaking against the ills in a society I identify myself with is “misguided”, then may I be misguided till the day I leave this Earth.

Best Regards.

Bottom line you have no other country you can call your own, if leadership failure and unpatriotism by a large segment of the Nigerian citizenry is enough for you to criticize your country so harshly then that very unfortunate.

When I remember the personal sacrifices the likes of George weah and wycleff jean make for their countries despite the many social problems Liberia and haiti may face it just reminds one of the wise saying there is no where like home.

Read your post well with an open mind and ask yourself if being judgmental is not the same thing as acting blameless.

Anyway, I dare you to mention just one part of the country where the power stays on for at least 16 hours a day, and I’ll gladly withdraw ALL of my comments. If even something as basic as electricity is still a nightmare in this day and age for a country of Nigeria’s standing, then I most definitely rest my case!

What you (apparently) fail to understand from your comments above is that the situation being discussed here goes well above any particular individual- most especially me.

In any case, I guess in the end, that really is another outstanding problem we (Nigerians) face.

I have read your misguided utterances and wonder if you are without fault. You are trying to sound like you are blameless, not one of us (Nigerians) i wonder if you have ever broken any of your country’s laws you sound very sanctimonious.

Now David, whether you like it or not, you are and will always be a Nigerian. Forget about whether Nigeria is full of lawless people, you cannot join the band wagon of hateful critics and other people who think the worst about us. Have you ever come across good Nigerians who people from other parts of the world envy? That should be enough reason for you not to belittle your country men. A lot of us back home do not like the way things are but that does not mean we should condemn in very harsh terms for that matter Nigerians as a whole especially when there exist people among them that are eager to effect a change for the better.

Do not use your website/blog to arm your country’s enemies with ammunition to hit her hard because that is tantamount to being among those given your country a bad name. Why not instead continue doing things the ‘right’ way like you expect all Nigerians to do without making a bad case for your country?

That is my little contribution long live Nigeria with or without her numerous problems.

A country which has the abundance in resources that Nigeria has, definitely has no excuse whatsoever for not being able to provide its people with the most basic of human amenities.

Before anyone starts to question my Nationality as well (as though I even care), I am a proud son of Okporowo Obgbakiri in the Emohua local area Government area of Rivers State, and as things stand I don’t have a place to call home anymore because of a war so senseless that it becomes enormously difficult to find an explanation other than sheer greed-
the same greed that makes Nigerian leaders and their fellow “elite” drive in their multi-thousand dollar cars on almost “non-motorable” roads through filthy slums around them to their plush mansions.

The irony that exists in the country is so sickening that one wonders if these people have their brains screwed on right.

As I type this, I am listening to a program discussing the crises in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. What a total shame. You extract millions and billions of barrels of oil from a people’s land, and still leave them frustrated, jobless and abruptly useless? What on God’s green earth do you expect.

If you won’t pass judgment of those two comments, I most definitely will. “putting shame on your country”, what a load of rubbish- you don’t need to do that, the country and its leaders are already doing a good job of that themselves. I doubt if they need any help from you.

Who is the “fake-Nigerian”? One who’d bury his head in the sand like an Ostrich and tell himself everything is fine or one who sees his country going wrong and says something.. hell even does something about it.

And who said Nigeria is not a failed state? Don’t even get me started man… 150 million plus strong human resource, abundance of natural resources and reserves, and we are still a developing country.

What rubbish! Nigeria needs to WAKE UP man!! Keep saying it and let them hear it.