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Table of Contents Potentials or Promises Coat of Strength Coat of Power Coat of Prosperity Coat of Dignity Let’s write about Nigeria’s coat of arms. If properly valued, it represents Nigeria’s coat of many potentials: strength, power, fertility, and dignity. It is also an indelible agreement that if Nigerians resist the temptations of thievery, selfishness, and corrupt practices, and if they work hard, they are assured of a promise of peace, happiness, and prosperity. The coat of arms constantly reminds Nigerians of their potential, and the promises of a better future if they can, at least for once put their acts together, think like mature people, and exercise a little common sense in their daily activities. Nigeria’s coat of arms is for the undesirables a continuous coat of many potentials but for the remnants of a true Nigeria, it is a coat of many promises. Potentials or Promises Suppose Nigerians can put aside all childish political behaviours, kleptomanias, and all-me-first a

Table of Contents Nigeria’s Pledge The President’s Mandate Loyalty to the President or the Constitution? In recent years, the Nigerian polity has been bedeviled by one general term, ‘mandate.’ As years passed, the term mandate gained more ground and replaced the allegiance or any public or private declaration of loyalty to Nigeria, as a country. The contract the people signed with the country was gradually torn into bits by the politicians (or leaders) and by extension, the citizens, (and foreigners living in Nigeria). The current political and economic climate of Nigeria is the main reason for this article. The people have openly rejected Nigeria’s Pledge and have taken recourse to different political mandates of some politicians. The aim here is to bring to the fore the salient points of Nigeria’s Pledge against the mandate of the president. Nigeria’s Pledge The clear and concise words of Professor Felicia Adebola Adedoyin in 1976 describing the terms of the Nigerian oath of