A Critical Approach to the Problem of Nigeria and the Struggle for Nation Building

Man abounds to have problems. Nigerians have problems but these problems become worse when Nigerians refuse to accept them, and in doing this, resort to self-deception and “Blame Games”. Many have seen, tried to interpret and also proffer solutions to these problems. However, this paper argues that the Nigerian and indeed African problems at the final analysis lie with the people who have the absolute power—the electorates/masses/ruled. But the question is: why have these problems persisted? Is it that the real and fundamental problems have not yet been discovered or that wrong solutions are proffered to them or that the people have refused to heed to the tenets of the solutions? Nonetheless, the paper will however go further to criticize these conceptualized problems or troubles with Nigeria, together with the proffered solutions and then proffer new ways to overcome the persistency.

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