 Nigeria was, than we think, not as bad as we imagined. Nigeria can currently be described as a nation plagued with unrest, kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, tribal hatred, love of money, and the least goes on. This can best be described as the worst times in Nigeria's history. That is, if we ignore the challenges that happened during the war, the Biafra War, the Civil War era. And thanks to social media, every event is adequately or overly amplified. Nigerians are not terrified. They are tired. Tired of hearing unpleasant news, tired of uncertainties, tired of bad economy, tired of dashed hopes, particularly from politicians. What is terrifying is the fact that the situation is actually worse than we think. Our problem goes beyond politics. It's a mannerism. It's a belief system. It is who we are becoming. I'm shying away from saying who we are because it's still an ongoing transformation. Governments or, in this case, politics only amplifies mannerism. You heard the story of the lady who claimed to be an orphan who had lost her limbs in an accident. What gave her out? Selfishness. When I went for... I mean, she refused to pay the people she was meant to pay or give them the share of the money. When I went for my NIN registration, I saw a guy at the center who was very angry and rightly so. While I did mine without paying a couple, he says he had paid over $50,000 to get NIN number for four people. Yet, after three weeks, he didn't get his card. It is bad enough that you collect money, but even after collecting the money, ripping the nation off, you fail to hold up your part of the bagging, selfish act. In our nation currently, without any fall from our leaders, it is difficult to set up a company or open up a shop and put someone in charge while you travel out of town. We're becoming more and more untrustworthy, disloyal, but I won't say we're greedy. I just won't say that. Now, life is all about self and not society. As long as me at the chop, hungry feet kill my neighbor. And I read Nigerian complaints today about bad governance and because he or she wants a change. But the truth is, he or she doesn't necessarily want a change. It is mostly because he or she is not getting a share of that cake. Once a relative gets into power, the rhythm changes, complains, sees, and suddenly, what is bad becomes acceptable. If you're greedy as an average citizen, what do you expect such a citizen will do? When or if he or she gets into politics, it will deprive you of every single thing you deserve. You expect a sudden transformation, a miracle that won't happen. But Nigeria is not all gloom. We have experienced bad governance for many years. Now we've lost interest in the very existence of the country. We see Nigeria as the worst country in the world, even if the news we hear is fake or what happens here is happening in other countries. We insist Nigeria is the worst. We complain about debt to GDP ratio. When that really is in the problem, where Japan's debt to GDP ratio is over 200%, China is over 55%, UK is over 85%, US is over 106%, even Ghana next door is over 60%. Nigeria's debt to GDP ratio is 30%, and we're giving a talking point to keep criticizing our country, not the politicians. We don't even feature among the top five in Africa. There are countries in West Africa where they have 24-hour light, but residents in the capital city cannot afford to pay for light because of poverty, so they live in darkness while all their neighbors have light. So when we call our nation poverty capital, because of certain research outcome that we have not challenged, we become the laughing stock. If you hear about corruption and corrupt practices in other parts of Africa, you will shudder, I tell you, at the fact that other African countries and even in the West experienced this. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we should encourage corruption. All I'm saying is that if other equally corrupt countries are able to attract investments and global respect, why can't we in Nigeria? Why can't we all call out our corrupt leaders but do well to honor our country? One thing we forget is that when we call our country the most corrupt country in the world, we're not talking about politicians. We're talking about the citizens because we are the Nigerians. The world is interested in not the politicians. When we call our country a zoo, it doesn't make us zoologists. It makes us the animals. And the zoologists in this case are the politicians. We hate our country so much that we never miss an opportunity to run it down. An investor can work in a corrupt government because that affords him or her an opportunity to undercut the nation and cut away money. But an investor cannot invest in a zoo or in a jagga-jaga Nigeria because he feels he wouldn't be safe. Nigeria is worse than we can think because we ignore the fact that we need an attitudinal change but it is not as bad as we imagine because whatever we're going through now other nations have experienced it, have overcome it and they're even bigger and better and we can do the same. In the words of the Ghanaian president I say to you, let be citizens and not spectators. Let's start a new hashtag, be Nigerian. I am Nigerian. Do a video on the great things you are doing. Let the world see you as Nigerian. They know not about because you are the one they care about. I want to strangle you. It's your rosy poetry. That's your rosy. I think that the part of it that I like is where you said people that are looking at us from outside and it's not the politicians, it's us. It's not the country, it's the politicians. So truly we the citizens have a lot to play in what has happened to the country because it's not just about the leadership it's also in the little things we do. Do you stop at the traffic lights? When you go to the bank they say line up. Do you line or you shunt the person in front to get to the front? All those little things like the one you said, should he be paying anybody 50K to get whatever. So it's even those little intangible things. But I'm sorry. I don't know whether it's like an ostrich bearing the head in the sun. It's not working. I don't know how you want me to say it. They are biting me. They are strangling me. They are suffocating me. Then you say no, I'm breathing. No, no, no. Let me set the record right. This is what I'm saying. You see we've waited on politicians for so long to change Nigeria and they keep failing us. And of course I believe a lot of us here have people we've trained, we've grown and you hear motivational speakers, thought leaders tell you that listen, the fact that your father didn't send you to school, you didn't have education, you had the poor background, doesn't mean you cannot make it in life. So what are they telling you that ignore all the challenges around you and you make an effort to be the change. And that's all we are saying that listen, if you keep waiting for politicians to say, okay, let's wait until 2023. We'll bring in another set of people. You're still going to experience the same thing. However, if we in our own little corner start respecting and honoring ourselves, ignoring the politicians, we can't ignore them because we need to vote and get them out. But doing our own little thing to make that impact. Because let me give you an example. I was telling someone that even Twitter went to Ghana, but I can bet that if Twitter had set up the company, the headquarters in Nigeria, the clients would have really good Nigeria. Twitter, you know, it's a better country. Ghana, Nigeria, I can't fancy one concept or country. This country, we're not in the world. You get it. And those things really tarnish the image of Nigeria. Those are the angles. Do we have enough Nigerians who are ready to join the bandwagon that you are talking of? I think he's saying that praise Nigeria, call out the politicians, point the fingers to the ones to blame. Do we? Because over the years, you were talking about, do you stop at traffic light? Do you do this, do you do that? You would find that at a stage, you could just get frustrated because it seems you are the only person trying to do the right thing. There was one morning that a cab was taking me out and the man stopped at traffic light. Quite a little money. If you see how the home behind him, the one he finally moved, if he had it when he was abused, insulted, that's it. I think we actually, in 2015, I was taking a class just before the election and I said to my students, okay, now we want to elect a new president. Can anybody here raise up their hand and say I want to be the new president? And of course, we're like, yes, now I can be the new president. But I said, but you are still a Nigerian. When you get there, you still do the same thing that Bwari is doing. Because we have selected our president from within ourselves and this is who we are as a person. We have lost our mannerism, as you said. Humanity, like you said, the policeman. Where is basic, simple humanity and kindness to the next person? No, I'm not saying that don't be Superman. Just being a normal person. Let me just, sorry to call to you again. I think it was Chinua Chebella that we get the nations we desire. You cannot divorce the country from the people in it. So I will extend it to say that instead of shooting the blame on the politicians we should put the blame on us. Each and every one of us are guilty as charged. So I think it comes down to the issue of orientating our values and I also like the hope aspects that are rooted in your script so that things can actually get better. As much as things are so bad out there, I think once in a while when we hear a message of hope it helps to inspire that things can actually get better beyond what it is today. What exactly do you want to expect of us so that we will not be in our heads anymore? No, the basic thing to do is for us to just love our country. Let me give you an example. The president, the head of AFCTA headquarters in Ghana he sent a mail out recently where he said he came into Ghana he was diagnosed to have a COVID positive but he went out, did test at two other labs and he was declared negative so he released the issue. Now generally, straightening it said it is bad enough for the country. I can trust Nigeria, you will have lambasted Nigeria but you know what he generally said? Listen, we are diplomats. Why did you have to make it public? Why didn't you write the president? Why didn't you write the challenge to Ghana Health Service? You are a mighty man. Why do you have to make it public? That is a journalist that is defending the nation although he later called out the Ghana Health Service but first of all went out and defended the nation because the image of the nation is bigger than that of the president or anybody. So protect Nigeria. Protect Nigeria, that's it. Let's start the hashtag. Protect Nigeria. You saw the Nigerian branch. That's it, that's it. So up next is Omani and he is saying we should let our boys do the cooking. Boys can cook to save their lives. Stay with us.