Going by the magnitude of natural and human resources with which Nigeria is blessed, there is no doubt that the nation is a giant in coma probably occasioned by bad leadership and followership. Everything she needs to become an industrial great is within her, yet, names like 'third world country', 'poor nation', 'backward nation,' still cling to her like leprosy.
In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Calabar recently, Professor Okon Douglas Ekpa, professor of Industrial Organic Chemistry at the University of Calabar, says that only Nigerians can sincerely make Nigeria great if they believe in themselves. Excerpts:
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