The Tunisian Revolution, also known as the Jasmine Revolution, was sparked by widespread protests against unemployment, corruption, and economic hardship. The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor struggling to make ends meet, became a catalyst for the uprising. It changed the economic, political and social landscape of Tunisia till date
The Sudanese Revolution began with protests against rising food and fuel prices, economic mismanagement, and decades-long authoritarian rule. Demonstrators demanded democratic reforms, eventually leading to the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir. Sudan has not recovered from the aftermath effects of the revolution
These revolutions demonstrate how economic hardship and political repression can drive citizens to revolt and demand change.
Virtually, all nations that had achieved greatness has passed over various huddles.
The french revolution of 1789, changed the traditional monarchical system which removed king Louis xiv , and laid the foundation for the entrance of Napoleon the great.
All praises to God that had preserved Nigeria despite the civil war of 1967-70. However, that civil war cannot be equated to a civil revolution. It was ethnically driven. Civil revolution that are more dastardly are ones driven by hunger.
Is Nigeria gradually being driven by such hunger and hardship metabolic propensity that ends up refashioning a nation? Perhaps No, perhaps, Yes.
Our leaders presently hold the keys to Nigeria’s destiny, and I love God for what He is! He gives power to whom ever he wishes.
When General Buhari was on the street fighting for the Talakawas, he became a god of a sort to some people, and had led many protest against hardship in Nigeria, God gave him power to rule, he got there and failed. The same thing goes with Ahmed Tinubu, he was a social crusader and capitalist with Marxist clothing who had fought many social battles against military dictators in Nigeria, and just like Buhari, God gave him power, yet he too is on the verge of failing.
Could it be true that , there’s a demon in Aso Rock as Dr. Reuben Abati have said? The best of brains enters it and failed?
Late Tai solarin was invited to Aso Rock by IBB, solarin failed.
Prof. Soyinka did not fail with his Road safety corp ideology, but his aspiration was never met.
China, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan, India and many other countries develop with borrowed ideology and technology, but our presidents and government officials have never learn or stole any ideology from their numerous foreign trips aside jamborees and tourism.
Otherwise, Nigeria is a blessed country with every other resources you can dream of, to make this country great.
We should be known with a particular product even if it’s agricultural.
If a woman can create an identity for herself with cassava, why not Nigeria!
Oluyemisi Iranloye is a woman who established Africa’s largest cassava processing factory in Oyo state. The farm operates on an 8000 hectares and a network of 6000 farmers with an annual turn over of about 12 million dollars.
Why can’t Nigeria borrow such concepts and develop it into a national ideology that will shift our attention away from petroleum.
Nigeria can pick out two or three agricultural products and focus all resources on them and thus make them our national identity.
Until Nigeria recognizes where we are from and where we are going , we remain a nation on edge. This is nothing, but a time bomb, whose explosion might disintegrate the very foundation of the country.
We are being pushed daily to the wall, by the various non welfarist policies being force on the populace.
President Tinubu should calm down and see Nigerians as humans, and not as those nossy piggy brats in animal kingdom where very few, lord’s it over the majority. At that point, when pushed to the wall, the people will lay bare their fangs.
– Jesse Abayomi Oloke, a social commentator, writes from Mopa, Kogi state.
