Nigerians can like short-cuts...

We like short-cuts, everything we do is basically on the premise that there is a shorter way to any and all destinations. We cut through a bush path in order to get home quicker, we 'hang' PHCN wires when we've not paid our light bills, we always want to jump traffic. I wonder whose fault it is that we lack so much discipline, the people or the government but then the government is the people. Thus, we, the people have ourselves to blame for the chaos that we have immersed ourselves in. These days there are no more long road to success, a student will rather practice '419ing'
than build academic excellence because what lies at the end of 'academic excellence' are no jobs and no hope. An entrepreneur will rather smuggle banned goods with the cooperation of the government (people) because it will fetch him more profit, a contractor will not complete his contract (roads are left half finished, houses collapse and infrastructure are left uncompleted) with the aid of the government and they'll both share the spoils. Look, nobody is helping matters, the government does all sorts of 'things', dilly dally a lot, make promises of change now the other 'people' wants to 'change the change' because the change that has been promised hasn't been fulfilled. Terrible, just terrible. We are practically killing ourselves slowly. We need to work on ourselves, we need to help ourselves we need to stop justifying our wrongs, we need to wean ourselves of corrupt practices and by ourselves, I mean the people, US. If and only if we can mend our ways and try to do things the right way then we just might salvage the situation, if not, we are doomed.