Nigeria, March 22 -- "Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?" Harold Pinter asked. In Nigeria, that question lingers like harmattan dust over memory, over hope, over citizenship itself. For beyond the known rogues and the unknown saboteurs, beyond the loud thieves and the quiet accomplices, there is another country hidden inside this one. It is not on any official map. It does not trend. It does not dominate headlines. It does not throw money in public or spray arrogance like perfume. But it exists. It breathes. It endures. It is made up of the good, the very good, and the best Nigerians.

They are there in their millions.

They are the Nigerians who still want to be Nigerians for the right reasons. Not because there i...