My Assessment

I lived in Nigeria till I was seventeen under a specific
system of things. Then I came to the United States and
have lived here eighteen years. Under a different
system of things. My assessment is an honest one.
It might never be the case that Nigeria redeems itself
from its current rot. The reasons have much to do with
pride and little to do with ability. The Nigerians use
their vast intelligence the wrong ways and so while they
have some of the best water ways in the world, and most
conveniently located dams, they have problem with pipe
borne water and electricity. This is the case because
of something we might call the "big man" effect. It is
a psychological statistic that is alarming which shows,
by number, that MOST Nigerian managers use their talents
for personal gain and if they used these talents to do
their jobs then Nigeria would likely be a superpower.
There are no more intelligent people in the world than
Nigerians, but intelligence is not wisdom, and this
is something Nigeria lacks dangerously. Wisdom. The wisdom
of fathers. Instead we have fathers teaching their
children to steal and made to teach their children to
be bad, in front of the whole world watching. Nobody
who has seen what I have witnessed truly believes
that Nigeria will survive. None! It is merely blind patriotism
that has us saying Nigeria will survive when in fact
it decays by the day. But then, the proof is in the pudding.
If Nigeria's leaders, as defined by those who I have
described, do not today and forthwith make a commitment
to using their intelligence to work hard and make
the needed change, then I predict the total collapse of
Nigeria "...on or about October 16th, 2013."
And this is my honest assessment. I continue
to work at LFOB-1 and enjoy my internships at NASA
tremendously (though this is a bit more than an "internship").
;-)