WHAT IS NIGERIA TO NIGERIANS
Independence greetings to the entire world. Today marks my beautiful country, Nigeria 's 58th Independence Day Celebration. I consider it a privilege to come from a country with hundreds of reasons to be divided, yet with our collective determination, against all odds, we have found one reason to remain together over half of a century, brotherhood! The Nigerian flag on the map This is something that has defied the international community's speculations that we would cease to exist as a nation after 2015. Those institutions are still marvelled at how we managed to cross the deadline of their ominous prediction as yet a United Nigeria. This cannot be explained by mere natural science. This is supernatural. The truth is that we are a determined and unified people, full of strength and creativity, existing on the wings of faith and hope and tightly bounded by eternal love which cannot be broken. Together we have battled autocracy and ha...