Building a better Nigeria

DID YOU KNOW?

That Japan led Belgium in the World cup football game yesterday by 2 goals up but later conceded 2 goals to give up the lead and eventually lost by just 1 goal (i.e. 2 : 3) at the very last minute (94th minute) of the game.....

.... and yet, the fans picked up all the wastes in the stadium areas where they sat before leaving while the players cleaned the dressing room, leaving the floor spotless and sparkling clean as if it was never used, regardless of their loss .......

.... plus still left a 'THANK YOU' note in Russian?

There's surely something worthy of learning from JAPAN!

A country with a population of 127million but the 2nd most technologically powerful and the 3rd largest economy in the world, plus has a GDP of about $4.9 trillion (which is more than the combined GDP of $2.2 trillion for all the African countries with a population of about 1.2 billion).

A country with Shinto and Buddhism as their main religions and with tens of thousands of shrines and temples all over their lands, and yet demonstrate the highest sense of responsibility and respect everywhere they go plus an incurable commitment to valuing life through a sociocultural philosophy called IKIGAI whose meaning translates roughly to a reason for being, encompassing joy, a sense of purpose and meaning and a feeling of well-being (unlike we Africans with christianity and islam that frown at idol worshipping and pray frequently and for long hours as if God needed plenty proofs before answering but have the ridiculously lowest value for life plus rarely take responsibility for anything except miracles - and na even miracles for material things, not significant societal/national dvelopment).

A country heavily devastated by world war II as of 1950's but through American investments, their governments economic regulations like restriction on imports to boost exports, and a nationally entrenched business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices and personal efficiency  called KAIZEN (not "we've handed it over to God" kind of philosophy), they emerged out of it all to be a world giant today.

Dear 9ja people, don't show me how holy and prayerful you are to prove to me you love God; rather, show me how you value and respect life plus take responsibility for getting results in life, and I will agree you love God.

God bless Nigeria.
*Lawal Starz cares*