Many people in Nigeria and in other parts of the world would define a Nigerian as a person that is from Nigeria or a descent of Nigeria. But for me, a Nigerian is defined as one of the followings:
A Nigerian is a person that always wants to be the first to perform a giving task, even if he was the last to come. A Nigerian is also that man or woman that will always want to worry about everything even if there is actually nothing to worry about. A Nigerian is also that youth that will always complain about how bad the Nigerian government system is, but if he is given the chance to make things right he would refuse and then say after all it is not my father’s business. But we all know that it is actually his father’s land and technically it is his business. A Nigerian is that man that would sit at home and say that government officials are dump and not intelligent. But if those same government officials proffer a wonderful policy, they would laugh at it and then say something like “don’t mind them they are looking for their own pocket money“ the most common definition of a Nigerian is; a Nigerian is a man or a woman that always complain about the corrupt nature of the country, but when it is time for elections and you go for campaign as a politician he or she would ask for a present from you and if you fail to give him anything he would curse you and then tell you that you are not serious in winning the forth coming election for whatever you are vying for. Please people is that not corruption? The least common definition of a Nigerian is as follows; a Nigerian is a man or a woman that hails from Nigeria and believes in the development and success of Nigeria and then works hard every day and night to see that the country NIGERIA achieves a great feat in terms development and progress.
Well this is Nigeria and this is the way we do things. I tell you as Nigerians we do not like change we always like to build a kind of comfort zone around an existing system. But can you blame us, no! Because in the past we did things right we always sort for the best way to carry out a project but it did not take us far. Other selfish Nigerians took advantage of our sincerity and dynamism to achieve their own personal goals.
Now for all foreigners both those in Nigeria and those that reside abroad that in one way or the other have been victims of Nigeria's corrupt practices, I on behalf of Nigerians all over the world is apologizing for the misdeeds any Nigerian must have done to you. We as Nigerians would like you to forgive us, because Nigerians are a very religious bunch. If you like you forget but if incase you don’t like you can keep remembering though since we Nigerians forgive people a lot but don’t always forget. Visit www.emmyjoach.blogspot.com to get more in THE NIGERIAN series.
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