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The Problem Called Nigeria
“When a bird in
flight is tired, it
perches on the
nearest tree.”
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African Proverb
■ Who is responsible for where we are?
■ What do we want and how are we going to get it?
■ Where are we going?
■ How are we going to get there?
■ When will we get there?
■ Where do we want to be - 5, 10, 20, 30, 40…100 years from
now - and how can we get there?
■ What lessons have we learnt from the past?
■ How can we dig out Nigeria’s gold nuggets from the dirt of its
bad image?
■ What is it that we want to achieve and how are we going to
achieve it?
■ Will we be committed and determined to achieve whatever
goals we may set for ourselves?
The key is the ability to ask the right questions at the right time
and get the right answers at the right time. This is always the best
place to start in analysing a problem or a situation because timing,
as they say, is the essential ingredient in life.
In The Third Wave (1980), Alvin Toffler asserts, “I came to appreciate
that the right question is usually more important than the right
answer to the wrong question.”
Listed below are some more questions we need to answer as citizens
of Nigeria. Please take your time to go through them and try
to answer them. In doing so, we will be able to chart our course
to greatness - the great new Nigeria of our dreams.
The Eighty-eight Questions of Nigeria
1. What is our fundamental reason for being?
2. What guides and inspires us as a people and as a nation?
3. What are our values?
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