Nigeria, Aug. 1 -- Do you think Nigeria is normal? Although I stubbornly hold to my opinion that Nigeria is not bewitched, I must admit that the country needs help. It is a country that has no direction. This is not because there are no directions to follow but because its rulers choose to wander around and grope in the broad daylight as if in darkness. With the current crop of rulers in Nigeria, the country is not on the path of greatness and is not even ready to dream of prosperity. Nigeria is a sleeping giant. Yes! It is not awake, and even in its sleeping mode, it is not sleeping to dream of prosperity.

Except if Nigeria would be an exceptional case, it is difficult to find a country that developed by despising, humiliating and starv...