Within one week in office, Trump has made enough enemies out of his neighbours to last him his entire tenure in office. Believe me, there is absolutely nothing wrong in fortifying your nation by building an expensive and affordable wall. But having your neighbour paid for such extremity smacks of intimidation and insensitivity-vices that the President has in reckless abundance. Americans should be more wary of the Russians who inspite of being thousand of miles away physically, are still able to conveniently meddle and influence their local affairs. Mexico is not an immediate threat. The president should look across the Middle East for a nation to bully.
In contrast, Nigeria is bordered by nations who their total sum in land mass and population still do not add up to Nigeria's. These nations stuck to us like leeches and have been able to benefit tremendously from our incompetent leadership and diplomatic visionlessnes.
Nigeria status as the largest economy in Africa, though now debatable is enough as an economic catalyst for an integrated socio-economic future of the region without us jeorpadizing our role as the hub. But our crippled infrastructure has reduced us to just exporting raw materials to the developed countries and importing finished products from them.
Similarly, our relatively weak official trade relations with our neighbors speak to broader issues that border on policy, politics and security. Our security has been seriously undermined by our neighbors and compromised by the ineptitude of our officials as evident in the terrorism at the Northern East of the country.
We must however not hasten to build a wall (we are not even in a financial position to build anything, anyway), rather we should make Nigeria great again by not loving our neighbors more than ourselves!
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