Most young Nigerians would welcome the opportunity to leave the country and never return. What does that mean for Nigeria’s future?
It is 60 years after independence, and perhaps the most prevalent prayer in the minds of young Nigerians who make up more than 40 per cent of Nigeria’s population is the acquisition of Canadian citizenship or residency. If my grandparents were to be alive, they would laud the rapidly changing world, hail the ability to see another person who is miles away only with the use of a mobile phone. They would applaud a lot of technological and innovative additions the world has experienced but might lament the unchanging nature of an inexistent national identity in Nigeria.
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