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Trading Beauty for Awesome Beauty
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Friday February 24, 2006 15:03 by yomi ogunyemi
Nigeria is gorgeous with breathtaking scenery, filled with flowers, trees and free-flowing springs but of what use is the beauty in the midst of abject poverty and squalor. What value is the beauty if the Government can not protect the lives of its citizens. I am a Nigerian. I come from a nation with a wealth of stunning cities full of compelling stories. |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1Yomi,
I was almost tempted to say you guys should have stayed to change your country but on thinking deeply I realized that staying can only be wise if the rulers of the country condone opposition. Which I do not think they do.However fleeing is not enough, there is a need for Nigerians in Diaspora to constitute themselves into a pressure group and push for change from the outside.
Beautiful article about a country we have all come to loathe for its corrupt leaders.