When citizens exasperatedly say ‘Nigeria is a plane on autopilot’ or when they dismissively say ‘Nigeria na cruise’, they are disclosing much more than the words reveal. They are lamenting a nation whose humanity has shattered, leaving a truckload of iciness in its wake. Both expressions often stem from a place of discontent, subtly bemoaning a country’s slipping from the realm of Human Intelligence into a domain submerged by the mechanicality of Artificial Intelligence.
With these two sentences, Nigerians are mourning the absence of empathy, that precious virtue Shakespeare christened “the milk of human kindness”, which is lacking in today’s governance, coupled with its replacement by apathy, that malevolent spirit of indifference. Beneath both expressions lies a deep frustration with a leadership culture increasingly divorced from human feeling, equity, democratic dividends, common sense, and accountability.
The emerging reality recalls the Yoruba proverb about the hunter who, in pursuit of a
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