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"Soon enlightened nations will put on
Trial those who had hitherto ruled over them.
Kings shall flee into the deserts, into the company of the wild
Beast whom they resemble. And nature shall resume her rights." -The prophesy of St. Jaust, just before the French Revolution}.
WE need no eschatological clairvoyance to know that political-socio-economic vicissitudinary turgescency are inextricably intertwined with developmental strides in the life and times of any individual, state or nation.
Hence, the essayist William Blake (1757-1827) posited in his Proverbs of hell that, "the man or nation which never alters his / its opinion / state is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind".
This was corroborated by Schiller (1759-1805) in his Maid of Orleans that "that nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake everything in defense of her honour".
Whither goeth Nigeria after 53 years of independence? I daresay say, it has been 53 years of hellishly scorching pains and horrendous spasms of agony. Fifty-three years of a tale told by an idiot packed full of political, socio-economic sounds and furies signifying a superfluity of nothingness. Fifty-three years of the leadership graft and corruption- no light, no roads, no schools, no education, no water, no fear of God, no jobs, no transportation, no joy and no happiness for 99 percent of Nigerians, except for politicians and their cohorts.
In Homer's Illiad, he did an encyclopedic and kaleidoscopic encapsulation of Nigerians and Nigeria after 53 years of independence. He said: "The gods(Nigerian leaders) have so spun the thread for wretched mortals (Nigerians) that they must live in pains. " Nigeria has earned over one quintillion pounds from its multidimensional revenue base since independence, but very little to show for it. The leaders (executives and legislators) at states and national levels have allocated psychotic jumbo salaries and allowances to themselves, whilst the vast majority of Nigerians wallow in abject...