INDEPENDENCE

Yesterday was Nigeria’s Independence and though i am not presently in Nigeria,i would say i was kept informed of all the activities that would take place that day via blogs and other forms of the media.I thought the Nigerian Embassy here would do something but nothing like that featured on the website,so the few Nigerians I know here just resorted to wishing ourselves Happy Independence.

I came home and just decided to browse a little,lo and behold,a bomb blast in Abuja and rumours of clashes in the north,i quickly called my kid sister who is schooling there,she had not heard about the bomb blast or the rumours,so i just told her to be careful,sent a message to my cousin resident in Abuja asking if he was alright and then just prayed for their safety and those of fellow Nigerians.Later at night my mum called to wish me Happy Independence,i don’t think i replied to that,because the next thing i asked was about the blast.This was her reply ‘My dear,it was a nice celebration the devil just wanted to spoil it for us’,that kind of shut me up,which brings me to the crux of this post,why are we Nigerian’s so negative about our country especially if i dear to say ,those in the Diaspora,we seem to think that leaving our country to the white man’s land gives us some utopian power and thus we can just say anything,who knows i might just be talking now because i just got here,i might turn into them after a long stay here, who knows ?

Nigeria is not where it should be,i agree, i don’t want to be abroad monitoring events in my country and calling to tell my kid sister to be careful because she has no internet or ways of getting information in her university campus up north,i don’t want to think of our bad health care,road security and all the problems that plague my country,no i don’t, but i will not be among those who will add a nail to a coffin that is already tightly closed,sad i should use that analogy,i would rather help to dig up that coffin and remove every nail inserted into it and free that living being that has been in there.

A being that has been held bound by corruption etc,that being carries within it great scholars,writers,poets,musicians,entrepreneurs,fashion designers,inventors and what have you,a being that knows to keep striving against all odds,that is Nigeria.

I will make my little contribution to representing my country well in this foreign land,Nigerian females do not have a good reputation in Italy but i chose to be different and so do other fellow Nigerian female student and workers i know,we need to take one step at a time and believe that we are capable of good things as a nation and as individuals,and that is my problem with all this bloggers ‘THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF GOOD THINGS,’until you believe in yourself no one will believe in you.

Nigeria is a great nation,what has shaken some countries to their roots has occurred in Nigeria and we are still standing against all odds,to some we should have been forgotten history,but we are still here ,we’ll get there, but we should contribute positively to our great nation.Do your own good piece and i do mine and collectively all our pieces will come together to form a large piece.

As i leave you i wish all Nigerians Happy Belated Independence  CIAO

 

P.S. To all families who lost loved ones,may God give you the fortitude to bear the loss.

NOTHING IS ACHIEVED THROUGH VIOLENCE