Responsibility

Nation Building – Our Collective Responsibility for Nigeria

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What is Nation Building?

According to Britannica.com, Nation building can be defined as, “a concerted project to construct or rebuild a nation-state and its underlying institutions and sense of community.”

What is the objective or goal of nation building?

  1. The goal of nation building is to create a unified and resilient nation capable of addressing its challenges and pursuing its collective interests, ultimately contributing to the stability and prosperity of the country.
  2. The objective of nation building can be to create a cohesive nation-state that never existed or that never properly functioned or to rebuild one that has collapsed or has been destroyed” “https://www.britannica.com/topic/nation-building accessed 20th Oct 2023.”

What is a nation?

What makes us a unique nation, is not because we speak the same language or have the same cultural background, but our uniqueness is derived from the diversity that binds us together, and makes us strong, giving us a rich antecedent in the annals of Continue reading →

Our Culture of Respect and Value System

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As the year 2018 gradually comes to an end and 2019 ready to step in, there are some key things that we need to review in our nation-state and in our personal lives as well. As it is the season of making new year resolutions and commitments, its well benign, if we can put this in our commitment list for 2019 and work assiduously towards it as different individuals.

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#FakeNews And My Responsibility

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The recent hullabaloo on herdsmen killings took a frightful dimension yesterday with rumours been peddled on the social media that Fulani Herdsmen were shooting pointblank at cars on Lagos Ibadan Expressway and hunting people down. It was accompanied with a purported audio recording of an eye-witness who “managed” to survive the ordeal and pleading with people to avoid the express and the situation was real and purported pictures of “slain people” which ironically was a robbery incident in 2010!

Now, let’s wait a second, what are the facts of the case?

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