Nigeria was granted independent in 1960 by Britain, ever since she has been playing a fatherly role in the African continent, some of the roles include laying a solid foundation for the establishment of ECOWAS with her continent sister Togo, she also played a lead role in peace keeping missions in Africa . Also to mention is the supply of electricity to neighbouring countries, to mention but a few with these one can conclude by saying Nigeria is truly a blessing to Africa.
What country will be a blessing to others yet a course to themselves? Nigeria has all it takes to make the economy better but bad leadership has made Nigeria stood still like a monument for so long. A country know for massive production of crude yet they don have enough petrol and it is expensive to afford. A place where cement is produced yet it is expensive. We have a vast mineral resources like gold, coal, gas, agriculture products like cocoa, palm oil, we have clay soil for ceramic tile and plate production and many more but yet we leave in outreach poverty. Sometimes I still wonder if the name giant of Africa still fits us, because I have never seen a person feeding another person why his hungry and you expect him to look fine and be called a giant. Although poverty is everywhere all over the world and not only in Nigeria, so let it no be like Nigeria is the only one suffering thesame thing but why Nigeria is mostly emphasized is because of their raw talent and the bunch of Natural resources which would have taken them far but they are still stagnant.