Prof. Jide Balogun, a former Adviser to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters, on Friday in Abuja urged Nigerians to have a rethink of their views that "the country is a colonial creation.
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Balogun, the Guest Lecturer at the 2013 Public Service Day, said Nigerians should see the country as a potential Tiger currently wrestling with temporary setbacks, "rather than a colonial creation which is destined to crumble soon''.
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He said the country, which is endowed with a huge reservoir of natural resources notably petroleum, tin, iron-ore, bauxite, manganese, fertile and arable land, was destined to be a great nation.
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In his lecture entitled "Nigerian Public Service in the Age of Open Government; Giving Voice to the People,'' Balogun said that instead of Nigerians to use these enormous endowments to the nation's advantage, "they use it to tear us apart.''