Nigeria: A Grand Shithole

How do we address the situation of a nation that is so internally gifted, being unable to utilize the gift within?
A sleeping giant some will call it, but I'll rather it be called a dead rat because this place is rotten and smelly.
A country blessed with crude oil and arguably every mineral resource one can think of, has its people wasting tangible man hours at fuel queues and about 65% of its populace living in abject poverty and ill-conditions.
We claim to have leaders but we have no concrete direction, the whole place is in disarray.
The police harrass the youth for bearing good looks and donning pretty phones they kill us for fun and boast about how they'll go scot-free after the deed is done, and the Nigerian government has chosen to take no actions concerning this even amidst outbursts and cries for a scrapping or a total reform of the police department exclusively responsible for these inhumane acts.

Fulani herdsmen roam the country with their cattle and freely destroy farmlands and settlements where they are resisted. Still no turn of action from the Nigerian government, it's even more interesting when you find out the herdsmen are funded and supported by our so called leaders.

(Herdsmen or Hired killers?)
We really have wild animals for leaders in this country. Most times I wish there could be a re-colonization of the country by European countries, Nigeria is too blessed (human and natural resource wise) to be this unproductive and unsafe.
Nigeria is arguably the most 'religious' country, but it is a total opposite of what religion and good morals stand for. (We are just hypocrites). Every now and then, we converge in halls, churches, mosques and traditional places of worship alike, to 'pray' for the country, it's even funnier when you find out that some of the leeches in positions of power hold significant positions in their respective places of worship. What's to show for it? Who are we deceiving?
We cling so much to things of religion but ignore it once a person of a different ethnicity walks in. A friend of mine once said that Nigeria (Africa at large) will not be better until we realize we are one organism. A broom stick is easily breakable, but a broom of many sticks can only (at best) be bent. We can't move forward till we believe in togetherness.
Nigeria, a country where the rich are right and the poor are wrong.
A country with no value for education, the elite do theiir best to keep the people uneducated and ignorant so they could easily be manipulated into re-electing them into power.
Our roads are in dire conditions. A lot of lives are lost daily because of this, yet our government acts like everything is fine.
A lot of Nigerian dreams have ended because of the conditions in this country, others are dead or existing but not living as we find it really hard to survive in this godforsaken jungle of a country. Yet my people have chosen to stay silent and will rather burn fuel and human energy by screaming atop theiur heads in churches, begging God for things to get better, instead of facing the so called leaders in one voice and letting them know we are tired and cannot continue like this, if not for our own sakes, at least for that of the future generation.
Wake Up Nigeria. Wake up my fatherland.

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