With Saliu Woru Mohammed
My dear readers, Happy New Year 2018. As we entered into the New Year, let us thank God for keeping us to this time. Let us appreciate Him for all that He did to us in the past years. Let us praise Him and continue to worship Him. The Lord Omnipotent and Omniscience, the Creator of living and non-living things, the only mighty God Who has no deputy, O Lord, I raise You immensely as the New Year rolled in, I consider it extremely necessary to discuss with you the need for you and I to be absolutely loyal to Nigeria, because loyalty to one’s nation is pivotal and key to the development of and a crime-free nation.
In our early school days, the national flag was a sign of unity and pride to us, it was seen as a knot that tied us together, each day we go to school, the head teachers taught us the importance of recognising national colours, not necessarily that of this nation alone, we were nurtured to the extent that we can mention the colours of other national flags of other countries, particularly those in West African Sub-regions. We were taught to understand that a person who is loyal to his country will not engage in any form of criminality, such as armed robbery, house breaking or embezzlement of public funds and other related offences. Also of great importance in those days was the teaching of perfect memorisation of the national anthem. The anthem, though of colonial mastered by the pupils and students alike; the respect deserves by the anthem was usually shown on important occasion was it was being song while serious dedication and attention were accorded to it.
The practice of loyalty to the nation was particularly monitored with all seriousness on the assembly ground; such was memorable school days when loyalty to one’s country was at the heart and not in tongue alone. Because of this, pupils or students did not engage themselves in any form of criminality, such as cultism, cheating in examinations or destruction of public properties as we are seeing today. Nigeria is a country of large communities of people.
