The Chief Executive Officer of Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Pastor Motunrayo Alaka, has said that Nigeria has everything it takes to be a great nation. She called on Nigerians to come together to build the country of their dreams. Speaking after a church service at the Foundation of Truth Assembly to mark her 40th birthday in Lagos yesterday, Alaka said Nigeria had the numbers to be a great nation where visa to the UK or U.S. would be guaranteed without stress. She said the country needed a new set of values that would drive this greatness.
“We need values because values are important to us as a society. The values of appreciating people and relationships beyond what we can gain or get from it and the values of our culture as a people because we have a beautiful culture. “But we keep looking to the West to solve our problems. We need new values for our communities and educational system. I got blessed by having an education and I had a public school education. Except for when I was at Stanford University for a programme, which was way after my MasterswhichI didinNigeria. The value of educating the Nigerian child and the value of a life whether the life is Fulani, Igbo or Yoruba, whatever the tribe is, it is a life,” she said.