A lot of Nigerians think it is a good idea to be bashing Nigeria on X and other social media platforms. They even get retweeted and reposted and this convinces them that they are doing the right thing. The lot of them are poor and their mindset is also poor so they see Nigeria from their poorly calibrated realities. It doesn’t matter if they studied and became doctors, lawyers and professors. Poverty mindset is not mastered by book knowledge, it is mastered by mind renewal. Imagine someone comparing Ghana to Nigeria..: Even the president of Ghana and all their leaders wouldn’t dare but one guy who travelled to Ghana and managed to stay in a place outside of his poverty conditioned mindset is suddenly so impressed to the point of talking down on his own country. If you are following such a guy or lady on this app, I will ask you to please go and unfollow such If such a person had a business, I will also ask you not to patronize him or her anymore.
There is a reason Esau sold his birthright, in his mind it was not of any significance. The Bible said he sought it later with tears but it was too late From today, make it a point of duty to see yourself as a part of Nigeria (not just someone born in her and who is dwelling in her), this is why Russians call their country “Motherland” and as harsh and difficult their weather is, they mastered it and prospered. The secret to prospering in a country lies with the mindset of her citizens. A lot of Nigerians are unpatriotic and this is reflected from the behaviour of the leaders to that of the citizens. DANGOTE said something recently and I subscribe to it.
If leaders are patriotic and “corrupt” and they invest the gains of their corruption in their country, the citizens benefit. Unpatriotic leaders rape the country they profess to serve and they take the gains of the country to another nation because they do not have any love or sense of responsibility towards their country. Corruption is evil, Being unpatriotic is more evil.
When Saul wanted to kill the priests of Nob, the Israelites with him refused to carry out the order It was Doeg the Edomite who carried out the order because he had no patriotic affiliation or connection to Israel and the sanctity of the priesthood. Once you see anyone bashing your country, unfollow the person! America is experiencing serious flooding and before now heavy forest fires that destroyed property estimated in their billions. You don’t see Americans typing evil things about their country or comparing their country to Haiti and saying Haiti is better than America. The evils happening in America daily are much worse than anything Nigerians are experiencing and you don’t see people saying America has happened to them! I travel all over the world every year, I have never seen any country without its own issues.
America is in serious debt as a country. America has several communities without internet facilities and people who sleep on the street in their thousands. Poverty begins with denigrating your origin. Once you lose the essence of who you are, you lose the capacity to make the right decisions. Why do you think many so called Nigerians engage in crime even when they are outside of the country where they have the opportunity to live a better life as advertised by many? “They convince themselves that their country is not good, so they are also not good and therefore they can only do things that are not good”
Our parents would often say remember the child of whom you are. If however the child sees his or her parents as evil, whenever he or she remembers home, he or she would do evil things because that is what he or she remembers.
Nigeria is a great nation, Nigerians are blessed people, God is in the midst of this great country and this country shall continue to prosper. Amen
-GSW-