Nigerians are facing hydra-headed challenges on all fronts: debilitating insecurity, extreme poverty, hyperinflation, high cost of food and essential consumables, diminishing trust in government and its institutions at all levels, and worse, there is no clarity on the way forward. Everyday the quality of existence for the average Nigerian is depreciating, and people are quickly bemoaning their fate and hoping for salvation - both spiritual and physical. The level of disillusionment is mindboggling, and most Nigerians are perplexed.
This situation is made worse by increasing economic uncertainties, the fallout of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the historical neglect of development antecedents by Nigerian leaders, who have failed to listen to and work for the over 90 per cent of ordinary Nigerians struggling to eke out a living daily, irrespective of the economic and security quagmire that have befallen the country.
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