The Heroes and Heroines in Nigeria

By Ehi Ekhator

Many Nigerians think less of themselves. Their understanding about living in Nigeria is to survive, but the question is, what does a hero do?

When you look at the mirror, look at your reflection, dress out and look around you, you will realize that no one is a better hero than you.

Taxi Driver, Imeh Usuah who returned N18m forgotten in his car

What most Nigerians survived with, laugh with, ignore or even live with are things that make people take their own lives in other countries.

Notwithstanding the tribulations, the agony, the resentment, bundle of disillusionment from our pretend on-screen characters that they have succeeded in entrusting their common wealth to, they have the fearlessness to believe the following one that comes, in the trust that things might show signs of improvement, or rather, this time might be distinctive.

Survivors in Nigeria are enterprising, innovative, insane minded and wild thinking people God made on earth. The general population aren’t simply solid, however they live and survive in a nation such as Nigeria where a typical man ought to call “The Hell’s Kingdom”.

Being a Nigerian send chills to other nations not only because they have a wrong impression about the, but because they are survivors.

Nigeria is a rich country as blessed by God, a country of many talents which have been hijacked by the few opportunists forcing the victims to involve in repulsive things to survive, yet they still find people who returns lost phones, millions or even run to give a helping hands when one is in need.

What makes you a hero? Is it by dressing in costume and saving lives on the street? Is it by making sure by all necessary means you put food on the table of your family?

Many people give up, they question their lives, everything they believe in has been taken away from them but usually for a Nigerian, challenges, frustration, failure are parts of life.

Nigerians home and abroad, particularly the ones at home who live in a country without power, no road, no good education, no better health care, no clean water and no hope, are all heroes and heroines. These people should be story tellers giving motivational discourse in different countries on what it takes to live.

In a country where gun can be found in the hands of a 11yrs old child, where axe are no longer a dangerous weapon, yet people go to work and return home. These people should smile as they are nothing but heroes.

In a country where salaries are not paid for months, pensioners slump and die on the queue during screening after years of gratuities withheld, where kidnappers demand for millions of ransom with the police looking so helpless and no comment from the government, yet the people smile to work the next day with smiles on their faces, glass of wine in their hands, and still dance to skelewu.

For anyone who can survive Nigeria survives everywhere. The main reason Nigerians in Diaspora prosper can be attributed to the hardship they have lived with and survived in their homeland.

Nigerians aren’t just common, they are people with claws, thickness to withstand cold and rain, heart to take heavy punch of disappointment, and plenty of hopes to hold on to after daily tears born out of emptiness.

In the event that you survived, in spite of the hardship and frailty, without harming anybody, you are a Nigerian legend and a leader that the country wants, and it ought to be composed all over you. You are an uncommon pearl and ought to never settle for less

Be rest assured that it is not getting better anytime soon, know that the hawks are not ready to leave even the smallest piece of flesh for you and your family, but you will survive because you always do, plus for the fact that you are a hero.

Though many people call the dead heroes, but Nigerian heroes are the living ones, those living with the rots, the pains and anguish on a daily basis, those that the hospital refused to attend to because they have no penny to pay medical bills, those that spend 6 years to study a course of 4 years due to teachers strike, those who regained freedom from the kidnappers den, those who weep in silence that nobody knows about.

Welcome to Nigeria where almost everyone is a hero.

 

The Heroes and Heroines in Nigeria