Nigeria, May 12 -- The line between hope and hopelessness in Nigeria is so badly blurred that it is now imperceptible. For most Nigerians, life is now 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short', making the end of hope an existential reality. Living in contemporary Nigeria exposes that personal and national fates are unambiguous. Nigeria's national disposition connotes the end of hope. That disposition is real, blatant, concrete and hard felt.

A shared value most Nigerians reflexively subscribe to nowadays is the canticles of hopelessness that pervade the land. As never before, Nigerians have lost hope in their country. This is a very dangerous juncture for any country to be. A haunted nation risks implosion. The nation's swirling and cas...