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? W...