NIGERIA GO TO THE ANT FOR WISDOM

OUR ROLE MODEL

   The most infinitesimal of all; full of social specialties and with mysterious building capacities and such coalition: “The Social Insects”.

This special group of insects, the ants caught my attention one fateful morning, when I went into the wild, walking down the landscape, and appreciating nature. There I found a gigantic structure, an edifice indeed yet reduced to nothing by the simple name: “Ant-hill”.

In its simplest form, an ant-hill is a pile of earth, sand, clay, pine needles or composite of these and other materials that build up at the entrance of the subterranean dwellings of ant colonies as they are excavated. Some anthills could be as large as 100 meters in diameter, at their base.

Still gazing at the ant-hill, I found a little ant dragging a large piece of groundnut into the hill. This got me thinking: “What determination, what selfless service!” But the piece of groundnut was bigger than it, for crying out loud!

Out of curiosity, I came back the next day with an axe, just to destroy the ant hill and get to the root of this edifice. As a matter of fact, an hour passed and I had not torn down this structure built by a set of animals whose largest size is not more than 2 centimetres.

Let’s not talk of their tight security system! I went through hell when their soldiers launched unpredictable attacks on me.

This taught me the power and outcome of unity. Because of their unity, the little sizes of these ants did not count anymore as they dealt with me, not withstanding my giant size. If in an hour, I could not destroy what they built, with all my mental and physical skill combined, then imagine how formidable we would be in unity.

Even God saw the power of unity in people way-back, when they decided to build the tower of Babel. No wonder He said, “Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise”.

With unity, we can build Nigeria to be a true giant of Africa.