There's a Future only if...

Nigeria at 49, anything worth celebrating? Giant no more. Not in sport nor in economy.
No future is automatic. Not all conception arrive at delivery. If wishes are horses, beggars can have the glory of riding one. One can be born great and die mean. One can be born an eagle and die a duck. The difference is the PROCESS! It is never enough to dream becoming a star, it is more vital to build ladders to your dream.
Nigeria remains a blessed nation with nothing to show for it since 49 years of independence. She has won many undeserved titles; the Giant of Africa and the most corrupt nation in the world; how can those go together for a country? Nigeria and Nigerians alike need more than good wishes, what we need is action. We need to act in the direction of our wishes. Can there ever be an arrival at a destination without a movement? When direction remains the same, how can we expect a change in destination? Leadership in Nigeria has unfortunately been moving within one familiar circle of touts and animals called man of different colors but the same content. Leadership without a philosophy of life, leaders with no vision. They have been to great places and yet they cannot reproduce what they see in this homeland. They will rather go there for vacations and send their children to school in developed countries and mind not if there are schools in Nigeria or not. No wonder the educational system will shut down for months and yet they are insensitive to the havoc it will create tomorrow.
The problem is really not about where we are, but about where we want to be that we are not reaching neither are we moving in the direction of where we want to be.
Will the glory of this nation remain a dream? Will the wisdom and prophecies of Awolowo prove abortive? Will the labors of our heroes past now be in vain?
What shall we do? Make more criticisms? Pray more? Or shall we just keep praying that some day it will be our own turn so we can serve our own purses and our children with the delicacies of these no man's cakes? Shall we sit still hoping that someday things will be better without no plans? Or shall we hope that after a while we shall get our visa out of the country only to go constitute a nuisance to others who have diligently built their own countries? What seed are we sowing today that can guarantee our harvest tomorrow?
The future we hope for will only come,
If we shall all do something differently henceforth. If we pray more and pay for the good of the nation. If we the masses are ready to wriggle power from the few at the cost of even our very life. If we are ready to fight for the freedom of our nation from the enslavement of corrupt leadership. If we shall honor the nation above personal gains and comfort. If we are ready to enthrone justice at all cost and live by a rule of law that regards no man.
This land flowing with milk and honey will continue to flow with milk and honey that we may never taste, if something different is not done right now!