We are a nation of religious bigots and fanatics. We have the largest numbers of Churches and Mosques per square kilometer in the world and we are still far behind the rest of the world in 2013 in terms of international human development indicators, such as life expectancy, infant mortality rate, standards of living, availability of social services, modern infrastructures, security of life and properties, educational and employment opportunities for our youths (who are our only hope and future as a nation) despite our naturally endowed oil-wealth that has generated over $600 billion for the federal government of Nigeria as our state revenue in the last 40 years .
Our problems today in Nigeria are bigger than the terrorist group that is known as the Boko Haram and its menace in the Northern Nigeria. We are truly a failing nation in the making, our government is bulit on electoral frauds and pseudo-democracy, our leaders are deeply soiled with official corruption, our state policy makers are mostly political opportunists, shady men and women as well as mediocres who are busy mismanaging and wasting our state funds. We are surrounded by lawlessness and brutality of the highest orders. Our oil revenue to date has only benefited our highly corrupt leaders and our top government officials to date in Nigeria. Nigerian nation has left behind about 80% of the ordinary Nigerians in the state of helplessness, hopelessness and abject poverty.
There is nothing physical visible on the ground today in the entire Nigerian nation to truly justify our status as an "oil-rich country" except a handful of the serving and retired military generals, senior civil servants, politicians, public elected officials, political appointees and their cronies who are now billionaires and millionaires who made their fortunes from the government patronage, the highly inflated and uncompleted government awarded contracts, the shady distribution of the nation's oil blocks, the monopoly of the import licenses for the importation of goods and for the provision of the basic services for Nigerians as well as our treasury looters. Our nation does not work fairly for all Nigerians from every ethnic, religious, social and cultural background in 2013.
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