Quotes
"Do nothing.
Stay and fight.
Or leave."
"Always moving, never fighting."
"We cannot become murderers, and we cannot endure any more violence, which is why we must leave."
How I lost my religion (as a Nigerian)
A Nigerian and religion are like a Siamese twin, one inseparable from the other. In a country of over 200+ million citizens, more than 95% identify as members of one religious group or the other. Most religion inclusive of the ones practiced by Nigerians preach the tenets of brotherly love, truth, justice, godliness, and general humanity to one another. Knowing all this makes me and some others like me to wonder, why Nigeria is in such a sorry state as it is today and getting worse, it's citizens fleeing en masse to other nations far and near, death, destruction, corruption, ritual killings, jungle justice, mob killings, violent robberies, nepotism and other vices too numerous to mention being the order of the day. And the irony is that all this vices are perpetuated by the same people who practice one or the other religions found in Nigeria. Religion, be it Christianity, Islam or traditional religion, all found in Nigeria, can be argued for positively, they give people ...
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