News you can use. Nigerians abroad remit to their friends and family a whopping $20b annually. This represents the largest revenue, second to crude oil for Africa’s largest economy. The only thing this country of 170 million people lacks right now is a leader worth some shit; someone who can harness its vast natural resources, energetic young population, rich fertile land that can be cultivated year round. The whole of Western Europe does not have what Nigeria has. We suffer from one bad leadership to another, exercebated by corruption and religion. If adolecents stop believing in Santa Clause why do grown ass adults believe there is heaven to reward their goodness and hell to punish their badness or that there are 72 virgins waiting for them in paradise after they kill innocent children of God? Why do people with above average education believe this kind of shit and then run for elected office?
Chinazor: The Mess That is Nigeria
Nigerians in diaspora sent home in $21 billion in 2015 to become the sixth largest receiver of remittances in the world. Nigeria is also by far the largest receiver of remittances in sub-Saharan Af…
CP-AFRICA.COM|BY YOMI ADEGBOYE