How are you?

It’s good to write to you again as we enter Q2 of 2024. How have you been doing with your goals for the year? Now is a good time to revisit those plans to check whether you are still on track.

It is always important to evaluate our steps as we go through life. As someone once said, an unexamined life is without meaning or direction.

In the same vein, my book of the month, “The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict,” by Mark Leonard, emphasises honest self-appraisals. Leonard touches on how social media has made individuals more aware of shortcomings and deficiencies. The ability to use social media to portray real or imagined wealth has put many people under undue pressure.

On a larger scale, the same thing happens between subnationals and among nations. There is an unnecessary comparison of States and countries that are not economically or socially equal.

For example, Nigeria's current democratic dispensation is the longest unbroken period of democracy since independence in 1960. Prior to this, we had several truncated democratic governments. It would be unwise to compare Nigeria's progress to democracies that are hundreds of years old. We should all give Nigeria a chance to get where we want it to be.