Northern Bright Side N.B.S

This is not what Ñørthêrñ used to be or Nigeria as a whole, ours was a decent country whose leaders respected one another in spite of their political differences. Ours was a society that was morally sound, was a society in which all of us were our brother’s keepers; it is not the same today. Perhaps, some people say we have been brain-washed by our erstwhile colonial masters, it is true to a certa

in extent, but we are to a very large extent to blame, because we are masters of our faith, we should be captains of our souls. Today, as I have said we are no longer ourselves, our cultural values has been thrown overboard, if a people lose their culture – culture is the identity of the people, people often mistake culture as mare dancing and singing, it is much more than that. Culture is the customs and costumes, the characters and characteristics, the manners and mannerisms, the philosophy and ideology of a people, culture is the totality of a people’s experience, culture is the way of life of the people. In those days we adhere to the culture of the people, we had an identity, we had respect for one another, our society was morally sound, there was little corruption and so on and so forth. However, in spite of the ugly picture I have painted, I believe we can still get out of the woods, I am not a pessimist I am an optimist, I believe that if we can revive the glory of the past, by reminding us of the good achievements – the success Sardauna and his likes, of our founding fathers, if we recall what Sardauna did and emulate his example, we can certainly revive the glory of the past.