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I used to avoid post of relation to revealing the real average Nigerian (i.e. living in Nigeria), the environment, the life and the mentality, and not forgetting the reason for doing what they do. But of recent I have being reading lots of what is coming from them, and I couldn’t but help to come out with this post after nearly putting myself into an argument which I did not get involved in actually, after realizing their mentality and the blindness that enshrouds them.

I know Nigerians well, in-fact I am one myself, but the issue here is, do I understand the average Nigerian, why they do what they do? Be it honesty, dishonesty, or even the way they live their life. Not forgetting the religious condemnation and tension that flows above their clouds and also the tribalism that runs deep down, through their veins.

A Nigerian is born into the world of a two basic beliefs of superiority over his/her other countryman or woman, in the sense of religion and culture. Religion for one, in Nigeria of recent, has turned into a cult rather than what its primary supposed propose was; that is to establish a sense of law of keeping supposed good moralities besides respecting the existence of life, which came from a superior unquestionable authority of that law. And that Authority was of supernatural existence and the creator of man. Most religions of today or of the past but still practiced today, calls this supernatural authority God. Did I get it right? I am not an Atheist by the way, so you can be rest assured that I have nothing against religion itself.

Faiths in Nigeria, be it of the Muslim or Christian origin, is practiced in such an alarming way, and I do think that, it would be a threat to the future of Nigerian’s progress, peace and harmony. Why you might ask me?

Ok, Nigerians be it Christians or Muslims in Nigeria are evolving into religious slaves, whereby a wall of supremacy is being drawn, and anybody not of the same religion is classified as an abomination or in some cases a devil when related to religion. Even within the same religion this same problem exists, I won’t be surprised that in the future, individual churches for example, would forbid their believers from having anything to do with the neighbor church just 500meters away. Well I cant cite “ The Jehova witness” in this case because there are a special “breed” in this case, They are like that everywhere. How about some of the normal Church? What are their Pastors preaching? Well I suppose they are busy teaching their fellow worshipers, that they are all going to heaven, because they believed in him. Let me cite a post I read recently.

The poster a Nigerian Christian at a forum says and I quote “

Thank God, that in my faith, I am assured of heaven, not by my works but by the work of whom I put my faith in, and that is Christ Jesus. You’re! There is nothing we can do to be righteous, for man is evil by nature but my faith is on that which was sin-less and who bore my sins even before I was conceived and born. What else can I ask for?

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“ You can read more on the mentality of the average Nigerian Christian in relation to religion itself in a thread titled “Christians: Can a Non-Christian Go to Heaven?” . What a thread to discuss on !!:(

Now with such a belief or should I say mentality, what would prevent that person from committing a crime anytime? Or even being corrupt? This is happening in Nigeria today, and it is not stopping and won’t just end there. The other cases, that have been there for some years now have to do with culture, where cases of even inter-marriages dont really work out.

Well tribalism, which is, as we all know, a troubling issue in African in general,has caused a lot of havoc of past and of recent. The main tribes of Nigeria, that are the Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba have difficulty marrying each other, employing each other at job places or even having direct association in the realms of friendship to the core, besides the separation carved by the map of Nigeria. Well we even have organizations such as Arewa, Oduduwa etc of which their primary propose of existence is to promote tribalism.

I am very worried at the current state and the future of Nigeria. What can be done? I really do not know?

I just turned 22years old, and as they say, age is just a number, but is it really is?

But as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, says…..

A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944

Well so it is.