{"id":51517,"date":"2024-09-30T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-at-64-former-von-dg-osita-urges-citizens-to-count-their-blessings\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:09:00","slug":"nigeria-at-64-former-von-dg-osita-urges-citizens-to-count-their-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-at-64-former-von-dg-osita-urges-citizens-to-count-their-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria at 64: Former VON DG, Osita urges citizens to count their blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Director-General at the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr Osita Okechukwu, has urged Nigerians to count their blessings as the nation marks her 64th Independence Anniversary on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu, a foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said this on Sunday during an interview with NAN in Enugu.<\/p>\n<p>He said the occasion called for a sober reflection, notwithstanding the prevailing socioeconomic realities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, in spite of the prevailing economic challenges in the country, Nigerians still have a lot to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was five years old by Independence in 1960, and it is good when we introspectively look inward and count our blessings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong such blessings is a united country; a burgeoning population dotted especially with youth\u2019s demographic advantage, more universities, tertiary institutions, secondary and primary schools, more hospitals, roads and rails among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly thank Almighty God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu said Nigeria was on the threshold of an era when \u201cpolicies of public interest and common good will triumph over selfish policies of planlessness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described Nigerians as good followers, adding that in no distant time, things would change for the better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy take, with due respect to our leaders, is that our previous leaderships had good intentions but lacked the political will to commit class suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor without class suicide, how can leadership utilise our abundant human and material resources to lift millions out of poverty and effectively ignite Nigeria\u2019s rapid revitalisation?\u201d He asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, Oct. 1, a public holiday to mark the nation\u2019s 64th Independence Day anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria at 64: Former VON DG, Osita urges citizens to count their blessings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Director-General at the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr Osita Okechukwu, has urged Nigerians to count their blessings as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1513,25000,25001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nigerians","category-osita","category-von-dg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}