Chessplug

               I   AM   NIGERIA   I am Nigeria and Nigeria is me. A country may mean a place or abode of people of different ethnicities and similar goals or purposes for coexistence, it could be a place inhabiting people from different walks of life, coming together to achieve a particular purpose. Nigeria is her people.  Nigeria is the life and breath of her people; she is the very root of the tree that bears her people. I crave your indulgence in a story so significant that it may portray Nigeria itself. And I once planted a miniature orange tree, I had watched my dad uproot it as he said it would interfere with the growth of the other yams in our farm.  It will take up a lot of fertilizer and manure if we let it grow and who knows, it may end up killing these yams, my dad had worried.  I watched him dispose of this tree on a heap of destroyed plantains that had borne fruit earlier.  On the first day, I bent o...