 Gritness is not faceless. Gritness has a face. It has many faces. It has over 200 million faces. It has your face. It has my face. Gritness is beyond what we do. It's how we do it. It is the people we do it for. It is never settling, continuously tinkering with an idea till answers to age-old questions emerge. It is our witness. It is our speed. It's our energy. It's our heavy punches. It is making melodies from anything. It is in the endless poetry of Nigerian life. Joyful, frustrating, sad, exciting. It's a mix of colors. Imitating the breathtaking tapestry of life. It's our defiance of fear and our almost-defined, nearly arrogant presence in the galleries of the distinguished. It is these everyday people creating timeless, priceless art, carving spectacle, crafting history. It is resilience woven into the fabric that we are made of. And we wear etu ashoke, akoete, kura, greatness, the Nigerian spirit. That thing about us that all recognize and still cannot find the right words to describe. Great is Nigerian. Greatness is when Tobias Mouchon does the 100 meters hurdles in 12.12 seconds. And his stunned world held its breath. Greatness is the chicken-scratch guitar chords that bewitched the world a new beat, Afro beat from Fela and how to burn a boy to Whiskey and Devido. It is the earthy Afro pop of Asha. It's the compelling, beguiling Nigerian R&B of Tiwa and Teni. And the alternative sounds of Ten's Johnny Drill and Chike. Greatness is how our phenomenal artists are selling out arenas both home and abroad with tens of thousands of people showing up to experience the pulsations of this mysteriously sweet music. Greatness is Kulia Folayo Jadisola Oshiberu Kemi Adetiba Nazo Nuzon hitting mind-boggling box of his numbers securing global film deals and rallying communities. Not so long ago, content was just television. And now digital content is a new all with our skit makers, content creators, thought leaders growing our digital economy. Greatness is Professors Kayode Uyeumi and Musayaku being listed among Elsevier BV's most productive scientists in the world. Greatness is Ethan Waneri at 15, becoming the world's youngest player in the English Premier League. Greatness is Abasi Enelbunk pioneering the inclusion of the African genome in research through 54 genes An Aisha Tofa building and nurturing a tech ecosystem through startup channel. Greatness is Amina Muhammad championing the voice of global peace as we take a prominent place at the table. Greatness is Miracle Izujuku becoming the youngest female commercial pilot in North America. Greatness is Faith Odunsi calculating her way to become the global mathematics champion. Express 0.00 Greatness is the pantheon of Nigerian authors. Their stories are stories bringing the world into the magic, the pain, the triumphs of the Nigerian experience. Greatness is the unicorns. Six companies created by Nigerians under 30 years old now worth over a billion dollars each. The stories, the people, Nigerian. Each of these stories of greatness across the globe has you in it and it has me in it. And we can almost take them for granted. They are so Nigerian. Jim Amanda talked about the danger of a single story where negative stories are used to flatten an individual's experience and overlook the many other stories that formed them. We are our stories. We are not one story and we must tell these stories to ourselves and to the world. Nigeria is not faceless. It's not an obscure concept or a dream hiding behind the waving of a green, white, green flag. Nigeria has a face. It has many faces. It has over 200 million faces. It has your face. It has my face. What is a dream without a dreamer? You are a hero in this great story. Your name hasn't been mentioned yet but it will be. Not the headlines yet. But you will. Oh boy, you never blow yet or you go zoom-blow. You know it. I know it. I know you won't stop trying. You won't stop trying. I know you won't ever give up. You know you won't ever give up. How do I know? I'm a Niger and you are too. And we don't stop until we win.