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.
With the natural resources, intellectual minds and industrialization in Nigeria our country is indeed a blessing to the continent but due to bad and corrupt leaders the country is becoming something else , the rate of crime such as kidnapping and internet fraud keeps increasing because of the hardship an unemployment situation, this isn't an excuse for all these atrocities but if there were opportunities most of them wouldn't think of doing all that... Nigerians are being stereotyped by other African countries due to the things Nigerians are involved in.. Nigeria is blessed but limited by bad governance