Creative Revivalists

I do pay some attention to social media and trends in my country but do I find these trends interesting? The honest answer is no. Most of the times, topics and issues that trend around my region are irrelevant. My country people find pleasure in talking about so many things that doesn't add any economical value to the system. Everyday on the media space is either bad news of kidnappings or celebrities banter, hardly you hear about our youths dominating in any area that attracts positive attention to the country.

What is the current trend that resonates with me? None! Maybe I am not social enough to find out about the great things happening in the other parts of the country but trust me, my country people hardly pay attention to those things, they hardly push topics like that on the Internet space for the wider world to see.

The recent trends was about how the prophecy from a man of God Apostle Arome Osai, who's video went viral for prophesying that Nigeria is a country of revival. The trend that followed suit was about the abduction of the prospective NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) members. You will hardly find trends like "A 16 year old student in Nigeria built a local solar panel, Nigerian youths discovered another technology that helps do this is do that, we are constantly trending for the wrong reasons.

We appreciate few people that are trying to put the country's name on the map of the world like Obafemi, Samson Dauda, Anthony Joshua and few others. I honestly think Nigerians aren't making these people trend on the Nigerian media spaces enough although I understand this thing comes in season but we can do better.

The worst stories seems to trend more on the media space because we are so much delighted by them rather than important topics that will boost knowledge and advancement in the country.
The recent trend about Apostle Arome as I mentioned earlier wasn't what I intended to put so much attention to but I still believe there's some thing little to learn from that. It somehow unraveled the situation of our country how so many youths rely on prophecies and prayer for their bills to be sorted out rather than going out to work and earn a living for themselves. The same issue also made it clear how most of us are blinded by religion to the point that we prefer to remain cowards over crucial issues than starting them.

From my standpoint of view, the person who analyzed the prophets video (VDM) went extreme about the issue but there was some iota of truth in what he was saying. The prophet said "People are building and manufacturing new things and we are comparing our country with them, we don't know that our country's call is for revival".
Where I had issue was where he compared our country to these advanced countries that are succeeding in technology, it's more like saying it's not an issue of concern if others are doing better than us in the space of innovations and technology, we should be bothered about the gospel and revival, that's our primary point of focus.

I honestly and respectfully disagree with him on that but also condemn the manner at which the situation was presented by VDM. These trend again reminds me of how the average Nigerian thinks, we are far from becoming better as a country because our mindsets are buried in traditions, sentiments, and believes. I don't know how sooner things are going to get better in our country but I know it will take time, so much time!