PATRIOTISM
patriotism is the love for one's country and the willingness to sacrifice for it. The word is gotten from the root word "patriot", meaning to defend something you love dearly, and to uphold its integrity. A patriot is a person whose love for motherland is second to nothing, and thus, they defend its integrity and honour with servitude, diligence and loyalty. The word patriotism is almost foreign to Nigerians, because of our lack of concern and negligence of responsibility, our lack of attitude and gratitude for fatherland, our show of ignorance with respect to Nigeria's history and the sacrifice and principles of our founding father's. Our lack of discipline and respect for law and order, and most interesting of all, our show of disregard for leaders. Now, it is no doubt that a country where it's citizens display all these characteristics as mentioned above is nothing more than a mere formality of a sovereign state, existing under the onus of weak leaders
