MADE IN NIGERIA

MADE IN NIGERIA…




I was reading through a news update on Vanguard Newspaper’s Facebook Fan Page on 20th August, 2014, with this caption: “Nigeria challenges the world with ‘9jaBOLT’ Solar Car; and the comments that were coming from Nigerians stunned me. The comments were negative, unpatriotic criticisms against the ‘Naija’ (Nigeria) made car. It was very disheartening for me to see such comments against such a good invention from Nigeria. I marvelled at how Nigerians could be so wicked and pessimistic to themselves. How they could not believe in themselves and cherish their own things.

I don’t like people who cannot believe in themselves. I hate people who don’t appreciate their own things; especially the so-called Nigeria youths and leaders of tomorrow – they don’t believe in anything good springing up from Nigeria.
The questions begging for answers in Nigeria are: When do we start believing in ourselves? When do we start appreciating ourselves and our own things? When do we start giving value to our ideas and inventions? If the world claims that nothing good will ever come out of Nigeria; must we also affirm to it?

Our industries are dying because we prefer imported items to our home-made ones. We prefer listening to foreign music and to watch imported movies, leaving our own music and movies to rot with the distributors. Aba have the best of designer wears and shoes in this part of the world, yet we fly to Dubai and other countries to shop for clothes and shoes. We go out there enriching other countries with our money while our country keeps depleting. In the end, we blame only the government and the leaders for our country’s under-development and unemployment; whereas all of us are contributing our quotas to the downfall of our dear nation. We complain that Nigerian products are substandard; go and as China, if they had left their substandard products for foreign ones, where would their economy be today?

It is high time we retraced our steps and change our mentality. It is time we start appreciating our own brands and ourselves. We should love and cherish our products; ideas, cultures, heritages, ethics and inventions. By so doing, we will climb the ladder of greatness among the committee of nations. We would prove the world wrong on their negative notions about us and be free from the world-class slavery we found ourselves today.

The time to act is now because if we do not appreciate our Nigeria; nobody else will. God bless Nigeria!


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