Whose mind?
I think such a sweeping generalisation is worthless.
What comes to your mind when you think of "Holland"? Cheese, hash bars and whores! Well, yeah, if that is about all you know about a country that isn't even named "Holland," since there is a bit more to it than that.
Whatever the image of a country is, when my own adopted one, Germany (Hitler, Hitler and Hitler, basically, plus a tiny bit oompah "music," beer, beer and beer and Hamburg's Reeperbahn if you are a cosmopolite) doesn't exactly stand out, image-wise, how much does that have to do with its reality? Perhaps not very much.
Should one worry about how someone basically ignorant sees this or that country? Why? It is not as if Nigeria is depending on tourism, is it? You just have this monoculture, everything revolving around the export of a lot of oil and a bit of gas, a huge cash cow that should continue for quite some time despite decades of yes, "FRAUD/GREED" when people will still come bringing their necessary skills with them to keep this creaky system running. Or it collapses so that you end up with people living in the shells of abandoned aircraft parked on a silent airport, the Apocalypse! (When I first reached sunny Ikeja there was a small family living in an abandoned white Jaguar saloon car, chickens sat on the bashed-in roof, right there next to NEPA at Ikeja Roundabout, like something out of Mad Max.)
Of course there's hope for aviation in Nigeria. Perhaps not a lot but hope, sure! You could even take the collapse of this or that mismanaged company to be a hopeful sign, something that must send a message to anyone ready to listen.
Meanwhile there is still the Mobil Flight Department, just for one, out there getting the job done under local supervision for quite some time now, accident-free. To look at Nigeria from the outside and pronounce it doomed, DOOMED, is just being a bit silly. When this latest breath-taking adventure, Arik, finally reaches its end, as seems possible, well, who knows? Perhaps those anti-corruption people will venture into its ruins to shoot some of the survivors and send a message to the rest. Not likely, of course but stranger things have happened. Look at Ghana, for instance.