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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Nigeria: A Nation On Trial

 By Sunny Awhefeada 

The Nigerian state is undergoing a series of turmoil that is a desider­atum in her sojourn to nationhood. Great nations did contend with such moments in their history. The jour­ney to nationhood is not a hundred metre dash. It is long, tortuous and treacherous. It births heroes and throws up villains.

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While the heroes struggle to delineate the clear path the nation should walk, the villains deploy everything including subterfuge to subvert the quest in order to satisfy some base desires that often denude the major­ity of the people of stability, fairness and justice. What often baffles humanity in the course of the struggle laden quest is that some of the heroes turn out to be “heroes” who were wolves in sheep’s clothing.