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How Great Is Nigeria! By Olawale Lekan Christopher

Many people would say that Nigeria is a great country because of its population that stands at a whopping figure of 191 million: the 7th largest in the world and the largest in the African continent. I may as well offer this rejoinder that there are countries in the world with significantly high population, which have never been esteemed with the word greatness or any such similar word. I would rather I did not mention peculiar cases.

Other people would say that rather than strength and greatness in sheer number, Nigeria is great because of her rich minerals resources. Indeed, Nigeria is blessed with abundant natural resources. Nigeria is the number one oil producing country in Africa and the 12th in the world; it has the 2nd largest oil reserves in Africa and has, in addition, ample quantities of natural gas, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, zinc and arable land. But what do all these mean? They are merely circumstantial. The entire Africa continent seems to be encrusted in natural resources. From gold and diamond in Ghana and DR Congo respectively, to a substantial quantity of crude oil in Angola and Libya, just to name a few, Africa is hugely endowed with human and natural resources. However, in the world at large and in Africa in particular, only few countries can lay claims to greatness even when the touchstone is Nigeria.

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How Great Is Nigeria! By Udeme Akpan

Arise o compatriots, Nigeria’s call obey… This is the first two lines of the National Anthem of my beloved country, Nigeria. Those words always brighten up my spirit whenever I voice it out or hear a beautiful harmonics of its song being played. I can still remember when I was a child battling with my pharynx in order to master and memorize each lines in its stanzas. Today, those words in the whole anthem planted seeds in my heart that have grown continually and built up patriotism in me which binds Nigerians all over the world.

The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a sovereign and democratic nation located in West Africa. She shares land borders with the republic of Benin in the West, chad and Cameroon in the East, and Niger in the North. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. This is Africa’s most populated country, as well as the 8^th most populated in the world with a populated of over 160 million people. Nigeria is a developing country that struggled through the colonial era, got her independence in 1960 and later became a republic in 1963. All hail this great nation!

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How Great Is Nigeria! By Kenneth Okpomo

Nigeria is a great country. This is a fact that cannot be disputed. In five main categories I shall discuss the distinctive attributes of this country with a view to capturing the real depths and dimensions of her greatness.

• Geography

With a land area of 923, 768 sq. Km (and an arable land area of about 34,000, 000 hectares), Nigeria is certainly a big and fecund country. The country’s savanna, mangrove and rainforest vegetation is distinctively suitable for various kinds of commercial and livestock agriculture. Crops such as millet, sorghum, cowpea, soybean, groundnut, tomato, sesame, melon, bean, cashew, tomato, onions, etc, grow well in the northern belt where livestock such as cattle, ram and goat are commonly reared. In the southern belt, palm kernel, cassava, plantain, yam, cocoyam, potato, cocoa bean, rubber, plantain, okra, grow well while poultry bird, goat, rabbit, snail, pig, etc, are commonly breed. Assorted sea animals are plentiful in the country’s expansive rivers and water bodies.

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How Great Is Nigeria! By Mpamugo Chinedu Christian

Good People, Great Nation

Besides in the setting of the slogan of the 2009 rebranding exercise and on a few other occasions, it is currently not common to see the word ‘great’ employed to describe Nigeria positively. The slogan itself is now scarsely heard, possibly more out of perceived inappropriateness than out of advancement beyond 2009. Indeed many headlines about the country today are those which, like a painter’s brush, successfully add successive layers of uncertainty and ugliness over her image. Unfortunately, Nigeria and Nigerians have become known for many unpleasant reasons. Widespread and deep-seated corruption, nepotism, misappropriation of public resources, insecurity of life and property especially due to militancy and terror, high unemployment and an unstable economy are realities which confront Nigeria. Adding to these bad governance at various levels, the weakness of basic infrastructure like education and health, poverty due to unequal distribution of wealth, continuous ethnic and religious tension and mistrust, and the surge in the level of crime, it is obvious that the concerns of well-meaning Nigerians are serious and sincere.

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