“I Pass My Neighbour”: The Mindset Sabotaging Nigeria’s Growth
Nigeria’s deepest crisis is not banditry. It is a mindset that celebrates personal comfort while ignoring collective decay. The country has spent years treating insecurity as a “regional inconvenience” instead of a national emergency. While one zone was engulfed in violence, others believed distance equalled safety. That illusion created the perfect vacuum for today’s kidnappings, bandit networks and criminal economies to spread across the map. This article explores how a culture of isolation, rivalry and self-preservation weakened our national resilience and allowed a crisis in one corner to become a threat in every corner