3. Nigeria has a long way to go!
Having stayed in places like the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and some other countries, you may now begin to see the very reasons why they call these countries ‘developed nations’ and your own country as developing or underdeveloped, as the case may be. From the very first mental development, a friend narrated an encounter with a danfo bus driver in Lagos.
She was about to cross a road using the zebra crossing around Excellence Hotel at Aguda in Ogba when a bus approached speedily. She asked: “didn’t you see the zebra crossing?” then the driver replied asking her if she was a zebra. But in other countries, once you stand on the zebra crossing lines, every driver assumes you want to cross the road. They slow down and stop. This is because lives are insured.
Many people don’t take cognizance of the laws of traffic in Nigeria. How many people have health insurance? Why won’t drivers hit people and go scot-free?
When you see other things like the infrastructural development and human and national security approaches, you wouldn’t help but say Nigeria has a long way to go.
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