Editor's Voice

By Managing Editor Miguel Vieira

Nigeria’s collective success would have a global positive impact.

Chicago area Nigerians recently celebrated 48 years of independence from Great Britain at the Washington Park on the South Side with a parade and a festival. The event was a momentous celebration of all things Nigerian; the cultural, the historical, the musical, artistic and otherwise. We congratulate Chicago-area Nigerians, those back home in Nigeria and those in its over-seas Diaspora communities for forty eight years of sovereignty.

As the atlas of Africa that Nigeria is, we encourage all its citizens to use their undeniably intelligent brain capital and ambition for the betterment of the African continent and transplanted Africans all over the world because in the final analysis, being the microcosm of the motherland that Nigeria is, if it succeeds, other African nations and multi-generation Africans in Chicago, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, and else where will emulate their efforts.

This appeal goes to all Nigerians, the Doctors, Engineers, the Certified Nursing Assistants, the entrepreneurs, and even the hustlers. If all these elements were to bring their collective brain power, drive and skills together, the whole continent of Africa and the African Diaspora would subsequently be positively impacted. Such is the psychological and symbolic importance of Nigeria in the psyche of Africans across the seas and continents.