What expectations would the citizens have of a re-invented Nigeria?

A re-invented Nigeria is expected to be a nation in all its ramifications!

For every nation-state, its desirability is underpinned by the quality of life within it while its viability is measured by the quality of economic activities it generates that impacts positively on the quality of life within it as well as on its Gross National Product (GNP). Thus, the common denominator in assessing a nation's desirability and viability is the quality of life within it, for its citizens.

Therefore, the first expectation of the Nigerian citizen would be an acceptable quality of life within the Nigerian State. What, then, are the parameters that determine the quality of life of a citizen?

From copious studies conducted by various organisations over time, the basic needs of man for a sustainable life can be subsumed under the following headings:

1. Food
   
2. Shelter
   
3. Security
   
4. Clothing.
   

Where these needs are guaranteed the citizenry, by any nation, to an acceptable and general level then that nation is viewed as viable and desirable. It is this desirability that creates a sense of pride in the citizens; it is this pride in the nation and its potentials that results in patriotism, especially when strongly interlaced with the belief in the ability of the nation to protect its citizens unflinchingly, wherever they may be.

How far is the Nigerian State guaranteeing these basic needs for its citizens?

As presently configured, Nigeria is a failed state despite its multiplicity of resources since it has not been able to guarantee an acceptable quality of life for its citizens. Damningly, some 90 years after it came into existence by colonial fiat, its citizens are yet to believe in the existence, or viability, of the Nigerian State even though it was not the only one that came into existence through that same process; our next door neighbour, Ghana, is a very apt example

If we agree that the Nigerian system has failed us since its creation in 1914, then its operators have failed and one of the main reasons for system failure is the inability of its operators to empathise with the processes within the system. But the operators of the Nigerian system are its human elements, its citizens.

How did Ghanaian citizens succeed in nurturing their nationhood while the Nigerians failed? Please your comments would be appreciated as it would help in this project of re-inventing Nigeria.