Nigeria, March 16 -- Cynics see Nigeria through a lens of perpetual distrust, convinced that every effort is doomed to drown in the same murky waters of past failures. They'll tell you, "Na who dey push wheelbarrow full of sand dey build skyscraper?"-mocking ambition as naivety. But their skepticism, though rooted in the scars of unmet promises, often overlooks the quiet revolutions: the techpreneur in Lagos coding solutions, the teacher in Kano rebuilding minds brick by brick. I am no cynic. I choose to see the cracks not as proof of collapse but as spaces where new foundations can be laid. Nigeria is a patient, not a corpse-and healing demands more than folded arms.

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