One would wonder that since the new government came into being things should change ...however my experiance recently is giving the impression that chaning Nigeria might be a tough thing.
In the Camp where l happen to be one of the cordinators... We decidedto share certin things and at this point l have to commend the children at the camp but it became clear that when children misbehave there is the unseen hand of the adults behind it.
the children (620 in number at the camp) had nothing to lie abouut when collecting their T-shirts (DIGITEST branded Tshirts) but one of the teachers accompanying his students who was not part of the volunteering team tried to pass off a 16 pack T-shirt for 15 and was discovered in the process.
The whole thing happened les than 3mins but it struck home that something is fundamentally wrong when the thosexepected to teach values are the ones breaking social values, how then would they be ableto teach it.
interesting, l interviewed Dr. Nike Osofisan yesterday for the TV magazine DIGITEST LOGON and it was quite interesting talking to the first woman to get a P.HD in Computer science in Nigeria...l begin to think that though we are not perfect but we are going somwhere great.
My fear is that we would not wait for eternity to get to the required place we aught to be