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Every Nigerian below the age of 40 years should be forced to take civic classes. Those above 40 years may be irredeemable so there is no point.
The classes can be taught online, in schools, at motor parks, mosques, churches, town halls, pubs and every available space.
The lessons should be translated in every Nigerian language. Everybody must take 2hr every month.

The lecture will start from the definition of Nigeria and who we are.
The problem is not from the politicians. The politicians are from the same society, raised by families. We have less than 1m politicians in Nigeria they cannot and shouldn't have the power to turn the country upside down.
Political positions should attract the same salary as civil service salaries if at all a slightly better scale.Any aspiring politician must complete and pass the civic lessons and a leadership course either set either in English language or the local dialect.
We are too far from civilization. Poverty is not synonymous with madness, they aren't siamese twins.
Few years ago, I had a terrible accident on Ogbomosho - Oyo road. A trailer overtook another truck and was heading directly towards my car at top speed. I swerved off my lane into the bush to avoid the angel of death. I lost two tyres and my car was stuck in the bush.
I had money, my laptop and other valuables with me in the car. I got down, took 50k from the money and hid the rest in my boot. I took my phone and the little cash and I started walking away from the scene. I was afraid..
All the cars that passed didn't stop to help..
I sat down in the shrub some meters away, close enough for me to have a view of my car just to see if anyone would stop to help. After few minutes I saw two guys from the nearby village on a bike, they had gone to the farm in the morning to harvest yams.
The yams were on the bike and they had cutlasses with them. They approached me and asked if I was the owner of the car they saw few metres away. I said yes and asked if they could help me get back to ogbomosho. These boys went back to my car, cleared the shrubs,
These guys pushed my car back to the road, removed my tyres, took it to ogbomosho on bike, came back with a Vulcanizer, 2 tyres and the engine to pump the tyres. Their father came with them on a separate bike to further assist me. Eventually they sorted me out.
I offered them money and i was shocked when they asked me to give it to their dad who also rejected it. I begged the man for minutes before he accepted my offering. These were people who had to go to the farm to harvest yams for breakfast. Peasant farmers..
They were poor but they didn't think it was proper to steal, kill or destroy. The family, the society / the little village they come from in ogbomosho does not dignify crime. They will rather live decently and peacefully.

Nigeria as a whole is a sharp contrast..
Broken values, bad morals, broken families, broken society.
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