The greatest minds are
capable
of the greatest vices as well as
of the greatest virtues.
—Rene Descartes.
of the greatest vices as well as
of the greatest virtues.
—Rene Descartes.
A family of five perishes in one night because
their old generator caught fire at midnight and before neighbours could offer
any help, the soot suffocates them. A professor of engineering dies in a
general hospital due to poisoned intravenous injection he received. Famine is
ravaging several villages because the indigenes can no longer engage in
productive farming. The villages are now the den of robbers, kidnappers, killer
herdsmen and marauders. The road network linking several villages, towns and
communities have degenerated and disintegrated. Some of the roads that were
repaired are also quickly being eroded systematically.
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| *Nigerian Politicians |
No doubt, the situation in the various levels
of our societal life may not always be as sordid as earlier portrayed but in
some occasions it is or even worse. Our society has reached a negative tipping
point. We are on the edge of the cliff and if no systematic and determined
positive steps are taken by the citizens and the government, the result will be
an imminent and inimical descent into catastrophe.
