11/01/2026
This past December was a terrible one for Nigeria! Many of our heroes who visited Nigeria left Nigeria in tears and regrets.
Anthony Joshua, the two times Boxing heavy weight champion of the world, visited Nigeria with two of his teammates and best friends.
After a short visit to Ogun State, he was making a short 2 hrs trip back to Lagos chauffeured by a Nigerian driver who ran into a stationary lorry or trailer well parked on the shoulder at full speed killing two of Anthony Joshua’s friends instantly, and Anthony Joshua himself surviving just by a stroke of luck!
We all watched in horror as Anthony Joshua was being helped out of the wreckage by a man on suit, possibly a body guard or one of his security details but there were no sight of an ambulance or medical personnel.
If Anthony Joshua sustained any serious internal injuries that will require proper handling before the patient gets to a hospital, we could’ve possibly or probably lost him too due to negligence.
A lot of Nigerians have lost their lives untimely due to both medical and vehicular negligence! We watch our elected officials joke around with the act governance in both our states and federal assemblies!
Now, our Literal Icon Chief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie also visited Nigeria and one of her child fell ill and was taken to a hospital in Lagos. The hospital requested that the little boy be transported to another hospital for an MRI examination or scan.
On getting to the hospital the boy happened to be restless and wasn’t calm enough for the MRI to be performed safely, so they had the baby sedated before the MRI was done, and after which the doctor also confirmed that the baby was given an overdose of sedation.
But instead of following proper medical procedure by putting the child on oxygen and proper monitoring, they simply carried the baby on their shoulders on the way back to the hospital without any oxygen or proper monitoring, and guess what? The child is dead! Another victim of Nigeria!
I only used two cases of two of the most popular Nigerians in the world for this write up, but if we should add the plights of an average Nigerian on Nigerian roads or their encounters with any of the Nigerian institutions be it medical, policing, judiciary, executive, every single institution that makes a functional society is dead in Nigeria!
I have to be brutally honest here, based on my personal experiences and assessments, I do not see any chances of improvements within the foreseeable future cos everything is total disarray. Nigerians are the ones safeguarding themselves from both the criminals without uniform and those on uniforms!
It’s a jungle out here. And those elected to bring about reforms and make positive changes are busy stealing as much as possible so as to be able to fund the next elections.
I left Nigeria back in the nineties, and almost 3 decades later, I can tell you that the only improvement that I can see is that people now use mobile phones and they have access to the internet.
Everything else is still as backward as ever with little or no signs of improvements.
But it will shock you even more when election time comes around, one may think that the people will be focused on finding the right leaders who can begin to change the wrought, but no! They’ll start talking about tribes and religion!
The situation is truly hopeless and disheartening. Just thinking about Nigeria will get you so confused as to why a country so blessed with much mineral and human resources can have itself so entangled in both corruption, tribalism and religious extremism and intolerance gets me completely bewildered.
