Is there any way we can mandate our governors to focus infrastructural developments more on the rural areas than urban areas?there is always this talk about rural urban migration and i feel this would help to reduce it.

Not everyone would want to live in the state capital or the largest city in the state you know.

supported!
but noisemakers will prefer to show us pictures of towns alone

re@lchange:
supported!
but noisemakers will prefer to show us pictures of towns alone

mehn the thing is getting tiring.just drive about 5km away from state capitals and some big towns and you begin to wonder went back to 19th century.

The main thong they need in rural areas is electricity. A country that is not in control of its electricity supply in the 21sts century is a failed country,it doesn't matter whether it is the city or village.

redsun: The main thong they need in rural areas is electricity. A country that is not in control of its electricity supply in the 21sts century is a failed country,it doesn't matter whether it is the city or village.

i do not think electricity is the only main thing.there should be no difference in schools,health care,quality of roads etc in the urban areas and in the rural areas.

I understand that electricity is going to be cheaper in the rural areas to encourage people to stay there and develop them, its a sound plan. We will see.

CROWÉ: I understand that electricity is going to be cheaper in the rural areas to encourage people to stay there and develop them, its a sound plan. We will see.

Believe you me if that happens, it will completely transform the rural areas in 5 - 7 years.

CROWÉ: I understand that electricity is going to be cheaper in the rural areas to encourage people to stay there and develop them, its a sound plan. We will see.

Stay there to eat electricity?

Wadeoye:

Stay there to eat electricity?

To get your FG-branded phone, farm, and then eat electricity.

passion007: To get your FG-branded phone, farm, and then eat electricity.

hehe

electricity + good access roads would unlock the rural economic potentials

honestly i just get tired of the focus on urban areas(not as if fantastic is being done anyway)to the detriment of rural areas as if people living there are subhuman.

You do raise an important point however. Now I recall how my Aunt used to make gallons and gallons of palm oil, and export them via train up north...this woman was able to pay for her children's university education with her palm oil business-that was the early 90s, before things got so bad.

passion007: You do raise an important point however. Now I recall how my Aunt used to make gallons and gallons of palm oil, and export them via train up north...this woman was able to pay for her children's university education with her palm oil business-that was the early 90s, before things got so bad.

some of our fathers and mothers got educated while still living in the villages.i do not see the reason while it should change.the place where that american boy went on a shooting spree in a primary or was it nursery school in december last year looked like a rural setting to me.we have to reduce the rural urban migration madness that is bringing about city slums.

What the rural areas need is just basic infrastructures like electricity, health care centers, schools and good roads. With this, there will be no need for people from the rural areas to migrate to the urban centers.

Afam4eva: What the rural areas need is just basic infrastructures like electricity, health care centers, schools and good roads. With this, there will be no need for people from the rural areas to migrate to the urban centers.

if only state governments can do those.

Really made so much sense @ Op, the govt abandoned other towns and villages all they do is beautify and focus only on the state capital, I really hope this mentality changes. I wouldn't mind relocating to d rural areas tho if the basic amenities are provided. We need to do less talk and more action, the question is how do we bring this to the government's attention Or does everytin just die on Nairaland?

Wadeoye:

Stay there to eat electricity?

It is the governments job to encourage business, entrepreneurship and industry with a favorable environment, cheap electricity will help to that end. If you cannot even see that then you should probably learn how to eat electricity cuz you are screwed otherwise.

They need to set up localized industries in those rural areas. These industries will bring an influx of workers that will require housing, health care, their children will require schools, markets will expand to meet their diverse needs, they have purchasing power so there's more money in circulation so banks will start springing up around, some indegenes will get employed.....It basically starts a chain reaction that results in growth.

It is not the governments job to provide industries, this is not a communist nation, the government will provide an environment suitable for the people to start up industries and erect their own empires. It is only in countries were people are not free that the government owns the companies.

Nike, Adidas, BMW, Mercedes, Microsoft, Apple, Toyota, Honda, Sony etc, these are some of the largest companies in the world, read their histories, the governments had nothing to do with the formation of any of them, I repeat, the government provides the environment and NOTHING more.

To put it more clearly, they provide cheap lending rates so people can gain capital, provide electricity, provide pipe borne water and provide good roads to connect these rural areas to the capital but as for full on hospitals and such that has to come as a result of triggered development and not before. Countries are built by their people, not by the government, it is what it means to industrialize, to allow/encourage the people to unleash their full potentials and that has been Nigeria's problem, the government took absolute control of the economy and basically gagged us all.

CROWÉ: It is not the governments job to provide industries, this is not a communist nation, the government will provide an environment suitable for the people to start up industries and erect their own empires. It is only in countries were people are not free that the government owns the companies.

Nike, Adidas, BMW, Mercedes, Microsoft, Apple, Toyota, Honda, Sony etc, these are some of the largest companies in the world, read their histories, the governments had nothing to do with the formation of anny of them, I repeat, the government provides the environment and NOTHING more.

To put it more clearly, they provide cheap lending rates so people can gain capital, provide electricity, provide pipe borne water and provide good roads to connect these rural areas to the capital but as for full on hospitals and such that has to come as a result of triggered development and not before. Countries are built by their people, not by the government, it is what it means to industrialize, to allow/encourage the people to unleash their full potentials.

That's why i feel a lot of our politicians a daft. Imagine a senario in which a politician decides to set up say a Cocoa plantation/ processing plant in a rural Ondo location with ill gotten wealth ( I don't support lootin the national treasury but just saying..). He can create this chain reaction that will bring about development.....not stashing it away in an underground room like an illitrate or letting it wallow in a foreign account where its use it to finance the country's economy. The money that is supposed to be used to drive the type of low interest lending to promote biznesses and industries has been looted and instead of re-investing it in the country, they hide it away. Dumb people.

ba7man: That's why i feel a lot of our politicians a daft. Imagine a senario in which a politician decides to set up say a Cocoa plantation/ processing plant in a rural Ondo location with ill gotten wealth ( I don't support lootin the national treasury but just saying..). He can create this chain reaction that will bring about development.....not stashing it away in an underground room like an illitrate or letting it wallow in a foreign account where its use it to finance the country's economy. The money that is supposed to be used to drive the type of low interest lending to promote biznesses and industries has been looted and instead of re-investing it in the country, they hide it away. Dumb people.

Now that I agree with.