NIGERIA AFTER 65 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, STILL REGARDED AS TODDLERS
By Comrade Musa Mohammed Moonlight Today Wednesday 1st October 2025, Nigerians worldwide remembered as the 65 years of independence of their country from colonial. But, there's nothing to cheer as Nigeria has remained a toddler, unable to meet her basic needs at her age. Nigeria has had the misfortune of being stuck in an unnaturally prolonged infancy. Our country is like a baby trapped in an adult’s body. It hasn’t even been able to change its colonially inherited national flag, much less its ill-fitting, colonially given name. Within this period of self-rule, the country has gone through different stages, surviving a bloody civil war in which over one million Nigerians’ lives were lost and several decades of military rule. Since independence 1960, Nigeria has also witnessed different types of leaders who have moved the country from one stage to the other- positively and negatively. Opinions are divided on their performance while in office. There is the general ...