Nigeria, a recipe for success amongst nations.

There is nothing about old age that is kind, or beautiful nor memorable and loveable.  The body can no longer match the virility of the spirit as it soars in dreams to the highest heavens. In the deep furrows of the fore head are etched the years of angst, and the once round and perky cheeks become deepened hollows and chiseled in appearance.  Nowhere in the world is the effects of this aging so apparent as in Nigeria, where the aging is accelerated by the general insecurity of every day life, and the continous anguish of absence of healthcare, absence of the basic amenities of life as water, and decent shelter and a reasonable expectation of a daily ration of food, in a once fairly prosperous society.  But nothing surpasses  the hopelessness etched into the brows of the ordinary man, who from experience knows that nothing can change, nor can improve for the every day man as long as the status quo is maintained.  If one talks of a physical slavery in the past, then surely it must be matched by the modern day  equivalent of an economic slavery which is held in place by the chains of an artifactual sovereignity upheld by brute physical force  practiced by a successive array of corrupt regimes.  In Nigeria, as in so many African countries, the people have been cheated by all: by the colonial masters who only sought to better their own countries economies with little or no regard for the indigenous people; but over and beyond that, was the worst betrayal of all, to be cheated by your own people, to have your patrimony stolen from you right under your own eyes.  In the same vein, the kidnappings in the nation rivals that during the hey day of slavery in the nineteenth century in West Africa.  This is the legacy of the civilian administrations, and all the preceding military dictators, who pillaged the public coffers like a private piggy bank and then turned around and asked the public" Why will you not dance with me?"
So the argument should be, if Nigeria is not a failed state, then pray where are it's successes?  If you are going to say a state is not a failure then it must have succeeded in something.
Is the success the fact that we have a presidential jet that toils all around the world a ? cost when our citizens cannot have access to clean water.
Is the success the fact that there are more and more areas of the country where you cannot even be guaranteed the freedom to walk on the street in broad daylight without the threat of abduction or being bombed?
Or does the definition of success mean, that the 5% of society who have cornered the entire GDP of the country to themselves have fastened their grip on the Nigerian economy to ensure no one else can gain access?  The list goes on and on, no, I am convinced, this is not the recipe for success, but rather one for a disaster.