The Breaking News is that Nigeria, our own dear native land, is breaking. We keep segmenting or fragmenting as the “Atomistic Society” which Professor Ayandele said is “always at war with itself”. Is the cause that of leadership or citizenship? Whatever it is, the salvation of our nation is the common business of us all. In the famous, succinct, but paraphrased words of Thomas Paine: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot (in Nigeria) will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap (our fatherland), we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be so strange in...
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