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You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. This was the letter Apostle Paul wrote to the people of Galatians some hundreds of years ago. I am going to replace in this write up the Galatians with the Nigeria Governments and Political leaders across board. I have been wondering why our leaders so shameless, If any one of them is sick or having ordinary headache the next thing is to travel abroad for treatment. I heard recently that the formal governor of Lagos Asiwaju Bola hammed Tinubu just came back from Abroad where he went to have a surgery, Formal president Alhaji Umoru Yar’adua was flee abroad when he was sick the and so many others. The question I want to ask is, Is it not the government of those countries they traveled to for treatment that put necessary equipment in place to make their health sector what our leader can access? If a president of a country cannot be treated in his country, it means...

It has become part of every Nigerian to blame the government for anything that is not right in this country, every day, people keep saying the Government is bad. I could remember a musician by name Africa China; channel one of his songs toward this same line. According to him ‘our government baaad ooo, dem no wan give ghetto man Jooob ooo, Oh my God oooo…’ Is our government bad? This is a question that needs an urgent answer from every citizen of this country. No doubt about it Government is an institution of the state empowered with the power and authority to make an enforce law and order within the state. It is the duty of government to provide basic infrastructural facilities such as good Roads, Electricity, Portable water, Security of life and Properties etc to enhance the standard of living of her citizens. However, it is the duty of every citizen to make sure he/she safeguards what the government made available with tax payers money. My concern is that Nigeria is 53 yea...