Beyond the lines — The concept of The Pledge V

A BIT HIGHER, A LITTLE LONGER

Nigerians are among the strongest people you’ll ever know. The world sees us as a headquarters of challenges, they just don’t realise that we’re actually a class of people gifted with the capacity to surmount our difficulties and emerge much stronger. I hear people say “if you can make it in Nigeria, you can make it anywhere” and I don’t doubt that. I mean, we’ve had high rankings in detestable things like unemployment, corruption, insecurity, we’ve even been called the world’s poverty capital, but here we are, still smiling and pushing forward.

There’s no telling how progressive we can become if we look past our negative attributes and uphold our positive values. Our population is not a disadvantage, it’s a pool of human resources with diverse potentials to be utilised; our social issues are not a curse, they are opportunities that can be leveraged on in building great businesses; According to Myles Munroe, “Where there are problems, there are businesses”.

Foreigners colonised us, but they can’t define us. We had an identity prior to their arrival, that’s where our originality lies. It is in the modernisation and not the westernisation of our culture that we achieve real development. We will have more power and value if we first like and value ourselves and the things that pertain to us. With the help of God, the narrative can be changed, greatness can be attained, and we can build the dream Nigeria if we choose to uphold her honour and glory.