5 COMMON BELIEFS AMONG NIGERIANS.

5 common beliefs among Nigerians.

This article is not meant to dispute or ridicule the following beliefs, it is just an observation about some commonly held beliefs among Nigerians.

1. 1.EVERYBODY IS CORRUPT.

2.      Most Nigerians tend to hold the view that corruption is in-born in every Nigerian. This is why many blatantly disagree to see anyone as a saint even without concrete evidence that such a person is corrupt. Majority of Nigerians also tend to justify official corruption by asking ‘if na you, you no go chop your own?’

2. FINANCIAL SUCCESS IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH DISHONESTY.

This is another funny opinion held by many Nigerians, we tend to agree that outstanding financial success is impossible unless and until ingredients of dishonesty and illegality is employed in it’s preparation. This is one of so many reasons at one point in time or the other, accusing fingers have been pointed at popular successful Nigerians, even when the sources of income for such individual are open for all and sundry to see. Dangote, Femi Otedola , the late M.K.O Abiola and a host of others are victims of this belief.

3.‘CONNECTIONS’ ARE THE MOTHERS OF CARRIER SUCCESS.

Most Nigerians tend to posit that if you don’t have ‘long-legs’, you just might not get anywhere no matter how many ‘papers’ are in your folder. Many job seekers believe that they can never get a job unless and until they are connected to influential individuals within their carrier circle, in fact many job seekers prefer seeking connections than jobs. Same goes for students contractors, technicians and so on. One absurd question many people ask about the choice of a university applicant is : ‘do you have someone there?’. While this belief may be empirical on many occasions, some organizations still have transparency which beats this theory ‘hands down’.

4.THERE ARE THREE SOURCES OF FAST MONEY.

This particular belief is almost unanimously held by Nigerians. The society itself is a living witness to this as the populations of footballers and musicians among the youths is astounding, and will be more flabbergasting should a proper count be conducted. It is worthy of note, that one of the first owners of private jet in Nigeria is a footballer, this can pass for one among the many reasons for the rise of footballing as future ambition of many youths. A careful observer of talent hunt shows in Nigeria will agree the population of Musicians is almost equal to the population of music fans. The recently concluded MTN project fame serves as a successful case study. My university alone boasts of not less than 100 musicians who only see education as a second choice, need I add that almost every street in Lagos state has a musician? If you doubt this kindly attend one or two street Jamz in the month of December. When I paid a visit to the area where I grew up in 2011. I was surprised that 5 out of my 8 childhood friends were already full-time musicians, talent? right?

As for politics, we all know the story…

5. PRAYER SOLVES ALL PROBLEMS.

Many Nigerians would readily advice you to pray over anything. from the most complicated problems to the minutest of problems.little wonder why religious organizations have been converted into money spinning ventures over the years. Even Tai Solarin, a pioneer atheist in Nigeria when quizzed about the failure of the 'people's bank' in  the early 90s had to acknowledge that 'only God knows why'. In recent times, countless religious organizations and even the Government has sponsored several prayer sessions in a bid to stamp out corruption from the country, but a million-dollar question is left unanswered 'was corruption created by God?'