12/29/2025
When People Say “Pray Nigeria Does Not Happen to You”
When people say “pray Nigeria does not happen to you,” they are not being dramatic.
They are not joking.
They are not insulting a nation.
They are speaking from experience.
That sentence did not come from nowhere. It was born from years of living inside a system that constantly works against its own people — a system that drains effort, delays destiny, and normalises struggle.
And the uncomfortable truth we must finally say out loud is this:
Nigeria was never designed to work.
Nigeria Was Created by Men, Not by God
Nigeria did not emerge from a shared identity, shared values, or a divine sense of order.
It was created by political agreement, colonial convenience, and economic interest.
Borders were drawn.
Peoples were merged.
Histories were ignored.
What God creates has alignment.
What man forces often carries tension.
From the very beginning, Nigeria was a forced structure — not a formed nation.
A Foundation Built for Control, Not Flourishing
The Nigerian system was designed for extraction, not development.
For administration, not empowerment.
For order imposed from above, not life cultivated from within.
That is why:
• Institutions struggle to function
• Leadership often serves power, not people
• Excellence feels unrewarded
• Survival becomes spiritual
These are not accidents. They are symptoms of a broken foundation.
This Is Why Faith Became Survival
This is why Nigerians pray the way they do.
Not because they are lazy.
Not because they are overly religious.
But because God has been the only system that consistently works.
When power fails, God sustains.
When justice delays, mercy speaks.
When tomorrow is uncertain, faith becomes oxygen.
Nigeria has happened to many and only God has kept them standing.
Saying This Is Not Hatred, It Is Honesty
To speak this truth is not to hate Nigeria.
It is to love it enough to stop lying.
You cannot heal what you refuse to name.
You cannot rebuild what you keep pretending is functional.
Romanticising a broken foundation does not make it strong.
Maybe Leadership Is Not the Real Question
For decades, we have asked, “Who will lead Nigeria?”
That question matters but it is incomplete.
Leadership sits on structure.
If the structure is faulty, every leader will struggle.
So perhaps the deeper question is:
Why does Nigeria exist in this form at all?
And who benefits from it remaining untouched?
God Is Not the Author of Confusion
God is not the designer of chaos.
God does not build systems that require constant prayer just to survive.
If a country demands extraordinary faith just to live an ordinary life, then something is fundamentally wrong, not with the people, but with the structure.
Final Truth
Nigeria has happened to many.
That is not a metaphor.
That is reality.
And until we confront the foundation not just the symptoms, Nigeria will continue to happen to people.
Until then, we will keep praying.
Not because prayer replaces responsibility,
But because God has been the only reliable system in a system that does not work.
And sometimes, the beginning of healing is simply telling the truth even when it is uncomfortable.
