From Glory to Shame: When a Nation Trades Purpose for Pleasure

From Glory to Shame: When a Nation Trades Purpose for Pleasure

Nigeria, once hailed as the “Giant of Africa”, is fast becoming a cautionary tale of lost values and wasted potential. In a time when nations are rising through innovation, integrity, and intentional development, many Nigerian youths have been seduced by the fleeting glitz of Yahoo-Yahoo (internet fraud), indecent exposure, and the idolization of vanity.

How did we fall this far?

This nation birthed legends, Chinua Achebe in literature, Wole Soyinka in global intellect, Dora Akunyili in integrity, and the likes of Aguiyi-Ironsi, Murtala Mohammed, and many who laid their lives for a better tomorrow. But today, some of the loudest voices and biggest influencers are celebrated not for wisdom or impact, but for flaunting flesh, riches without traceable work, and lifestyles rooted in deceit and destruction.

The Bible warns in Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Nigeria’s disgrace on the global stage today is not just a product of failed leadership but also of a population gradually sinking into a moral freefall. We have become a society where fraud is called “smartness,” and nakedness is tagged as “body positivity” or “trending content.”

This is not freedom, it is bondage disguised as liberty.

Historically, Nigerian youth were the backbone of anti-colonial struggles, the drivers of the early independence economy, and the vision bearers of Pan-Africanism. University campuses once echoed with philosophy, activism, and research breakthroughs, not club anthems, drug abuse, and social media “clout chasing.”

But now, many youths aspire to be “influencers” rather than inventors, slay queens rather than solution providers. As Romans 1:22 says, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

Even more painful is that these patterns are encouraged by societal silence and even reward. When Churches exalt only the rich, no matter their source of wealth, and society mocks honest labour as “hustling for peanuts,” then we have reversed the moral compass.

Nigeria’s revival must begin with the people. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray… and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will heal their land.”

It is time to repent, from top to bottom, and return to our roots of dignity, discipline, and destiny. This generation must choose: glory or shame, purpose or pleasure, eternity or vanity.

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