(Celebrating Nigeria @62) by SimonROCK Avingir Ter
Abia State, God's own State, which God were you referring to? Amadhioha or içi? 'cus God can not dwell in a land swelling with hunger, starvation, brutality, and manslaughter.
Adamawa, the Land of Beauty is home to all forms of ugliness, lack, wants... name it.
While Akwa Ibom promised to be a Land of Promise, that promise appears to be an empty promise, as Akwa Ibomites seem to have waited upon it as Moslems waited for the Ramadan moon recently
Anambra, the Light of the Nation where gross darkness and thick darkness have hovered over the great watery bodies like a midnight dew making Tourism turpitudinous.
Maybe Bauchi, the Pearl of Tourism has peeled off scurrilously the garment of Tourism leaving her ways in dinosaurs.
Bayelsa, Yenagoa was the Glory of all Lands, but somehow she lost her glory to militants, oil bunkering, and other social 'ah don't know '. I weep for my Nation, a promised land now sitting on a compromised future.
Oh, my dear Benue State, a fertile land tipped to feed Africa and the wide World.
A land full of natural and human resources, the Food Basket of the Nation has now been reduced to the home of hunger, starvation, deprivation, Herder-Farmer's assailment😭, should we now call it "Fools Basket of the Nation"?
The only commodity full in Benue is the full basket of lies from the "pebbles House"
Borno which was once the Home of Peace is now the Home of Boko Haram.
Crossing the Rivers, I found no Paradise, in my disappointment, I exclaimed ohhhh, Ayadeeeh!
Why Cross Rivers State, is this our paradigm? I wish I have a heart so big as that of Delta State, but the lack of good water has melted my heart into the wax.
This soup is too salty, for the Salt of the Nation, Ebonyi state isn't iodized causing my heart to throb in the stead of Heart Beat of Nigeria that Edo was known for. It is either Fulani herder's beating or some street riffraff in the name of confraternity.
Bring back the Land of Honour and Integrity, Ekiti where Mama Titi will make akara fanning the Coals of Unity.
Enugu was the Coal City State, but our tears have extinguished the embers, even the Charcoal is only used to roast our flesh.
Take me back to Gombe wherein we lost our Jewel in the Savannah. Even Imo, the Eastern Heartland is now turned into a Heat Land.
Perhaps, we may build our New World in Jigawa, but how can this be possible when school teachers have failed a common primary three maths in Kaduna, the Center of Learning? In shock, I exclaimed oh!Erufire!
Maybe we should forget education and venture into Commerce since Kano is claiming to be the Center of Commerce but when will true commerce commence in the land where alcoholic beverages which pull a lot of revenue into the national purse are suffering ban in their markets?
Katsina the Home of Hospitality is now hospitable only to banditry and Hostility. You talk of Equity in Kebbi State, but only practice religious Equality.
Let's bring now, every Nigerian to this Confluence State, Kogi and make it a State of Harmony for every Nigeria even those in Kwara. With this, we can altogether build our Center of Excellence, not just in Lagos, but in every part of Nigeria using the Solid minerals in Nasarawa State.
No gainsaying, Power is equally important and the gateway to the Shining of the Sun, which is why we need Niger, the Power State.
Ogun, the Gateway State, and Ondo, the Sunshine State. With power failure and lack of sunshine, we can't find that gateway.
Take this armor and the fulcrum of Unity, let us find that Land of Virtue like the Israelites did even in Osun State. As a Pace Setter, Oyo State will lead us to the Plateau, where we shall end every form of religious kerfuffle and enjoy a Home of Peace and Tourism.
By the Rivers, we shall find Treasure Base of the Nation, and when we return to Sokoto, we shall Unseat every Caliphate and Seat only those who troth this path with us for the Nature's Gifts of the Nation are lying helpless in Taraba state unharnessed.
Then in Yobe, we shall Pride in the Sahel and declare that Farming is Our Pride even as we shall stand tall in Zamfara and return to Abuja in One Unity, Purpose, Peace,e and Progress.
God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION.
CONGRATULATIONS NAIJA@62
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Author's Name: SimonROCK Avingir Ter
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SimonROCK Avingir Ter, a multi-talented cum gnomic aphorist Nigerian born B. Sc. Entrepreneurship holder is a passionate write, a Fashion Designer, an Actor and many more.
SimonROCK believes in the Unity of Nigeria beyond religious, tribal or ethnical diversities. He holds the dictum that the Nigeria of our dream can only be possible if we prune sectionalism and celebrate our diversities as a toll for national development.
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