It is barely two
months that Nigeria celebrated her centenary; and issues threatening its
continuity rock her to the root. Nigeria is no doubt going through her darkest
age.
Issues she never
could relate to or imagine are right at her door step staring point blank into
her eyes. Not only is the country in her dark age, but also in her most
confused state.
One of the unspoken
questions in the heart of a lot of Nigerians are; “when will all of these end? When
will the peace Nigeria used to enjoy be restored? Is Nigeria going to divide? What
can we do?”
When I learnt of
the May Day bombing at Nyanya, few kilometers away from the place that was
bombed on the 14th of April 2014, I shivered as the country is yet
to recover from the abduction of the Chibok school girls on the 15th
of April. There are no definite solutions to curb the insurgence of bombing. When
I think of those female teenagers abducted at Chibok, I wonder what must have
become of them.
What scares me most
is that I fear we are losing our sensitivity as a people. The death tolls have become mere statistics. Whenever
I think of the families of some the victims of bomb blast, my heart get heavy. Somebody
just lost a father, a mother, a bread winner. Someone just lost a wife, a
husband, a defendant, a loved one.
Where do we go from
here?
I believe we can go
back in time. Maybe we should go back to our root; to our values and culture. I
believe Nigeria can learn from the success story of Israel. Israel is a little
nation of only 7.1 million people, 64 years old with no natural resources yet a
global giant.
I learnt 11 critical
lessons from Israel.
· 1.
Persistence
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2. Chutzpah
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3. Battle field
entrepreneurship
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4. Cultural innovation
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5. Mashup
· 6. Education
· 7.
Rosh gadol mentality
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8. Venture capital
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9. Immigration
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10. Diaspora network
· 11.
Betrayal
Stay close. I will
elaborate on them subsequently.
