ammyluv2002:
And where are they today? Still under developed right? I wonder why we are not seeing the potentials on ground for us.

Under developed as compared to where Nigeria? I see potentials in Nigeria, but it has been these same potentials for the past 60 years. Please tell me something I don't know.

So you admit we are not doing the right thing. We always admit this but yet not change.

We have an impression of ourselves which is larger and far from reality. As a nation we need to get out mentality right. Roll up our sleeves collectively and work for the country not all this short term I must be a millionaire attitude we have.

We don't value hard work anymore and we are all taking short cuts looking for that quick riches.

We now look down on people who career dreams with statement like you cannot be rich working for someone etc. Everyone must do business because the goal is riches. We have a long way to go.

ammyluv2002:
My dear, don't look down on us. We are not doing the right thing, and thatz why we are still hanging

Chiaka:
If we are frank! He said the truth.! so we should rather think to change the mentality by putting things right. Even revisiting the expatriate employment. All sort of persons come under the guise of expatriate whether they qualify or not. Have even seen fresh school leavers been employed as expatriate some people with little or no work experience in the area they are manning are also employed expatriate, all sort of abnormalities happen here!

Okay you have just proven the man right. We do import intelligence, otherwise why would anyone write this in the modern world. Nobody will employ you on the basis of qualifications. It is 'skills' that employers are looking for.

ttmacoy:
So you admit we are not doing the right thing. We always admit this but yet not change.

We have an impression of ourselves which is larger and far from reality. As a nation we need to get out mentality right. Roll up our sleeves collectively and work for the country not all this short term I must be a millionaire attitude we have.

We don't value hard work anymore and we are all taking short cuts looking for that quick riches.

We now look down on people who career dreams with statement like you cannot be rich working for someone etc. Everyone must do business because the goal is riches. We have a long way to go.

I never said we are doing the right thing. All, I'm saying is " Nigerians are smart"

ttmacoy:
Not smart?

How many Nigerians do we have heading global companies?

Should i list Indians for you? Pepsi, Microsoft, Deloitte, former Vodafone, former Citigroup, just past Deutche Bank. Should I continue?

If we are honest we know he is telling the truth.

We have a poor attitude to work a work always looking for the short cut and quick riches.

yang:
The zoo called Nigeria is a criminal enterprise

United by the blood of Biafrans, genocide killing of Biafrans and the Stolen oil crude from all the communities where crude oil can be found

THE ZOO MUST FALL

The zoo imports tin tomatoes and palm oil

Monkeys and Baboons everywhere in the zoo

Ordinary ranting.

i no blame anybody but everyone posting on this topic.

Consider the following
1. Indians are very stingy.
2. If person call you say buy something when youre coming and you have indian blood what would your likely answer be?

Ive heard someone tell his babe they did not open shoprite on a saturday afternoon before so tell me who is worse?

Meanwhile nobody wey no dey use format similar to this when broke.

Tried selling a fridge to an indian once, dude broke the fridge cost down to the components and asked why he should now pay a 5k difference?
Why evils?

Im not racist o but business with indians? Fogerit mehn. you go short.
We fit play laugh chop curry rice together (all man go pay for himself) but once money enter the jist, im out the door

He is an idiot
In as much as what he said is truth you can't help but not the insulting tone in which he said it. It is the same Nigeria he is condemning that he makes his daily bread from to feed himself and his family at home if his country is the best why isn't he at home developing it.
I blame the government for not placing an embargo on the bringing in of foreign rats into this country to Lord it over us when they aren't even worth 2cents and a nickel in theirs. His own country where there is poverty and they still give birth every ten minutes with their confused people with 100gods in just one man's house and increase in child marriage
Op why couldn't you Answer him if you really felt bad instead of bringing it to nairaland I know Nigeria is bad but I believe we are going to be better and are even way better than some countries in the world.

dtjns37:
he said " in this country nothing worth bringing back, they import everything". I think that's a myopic comment.
also, see d comment abt us importing intelligence.

He stated it exactly as it is and you are bothered? The truth is really bitter. Truly, we import intelligence whether you accept or not. How do you explain the high influx of foreigners in all our construction companies? Are our engineering graduates just paper holders? Are they not intelligent and fit enough?

Chiaka:


Rape is very predominant there also!

7 times higher than what we have in Nigeria.

I never doubted Nigerians are smart, but I find interesting this atitude we have of trying to put others down to show how good we are e.g. your statement insinuating that Indians are not smart or Nigerian are smarter.

That Indian guys statement was the pure truth . Has nothing to do with Indians or Nigerians being smart or not.

There was an article the other about Nigerian having one of the largest LNG and the article went on to say but yet they still import refined gas. With all our smartness. Please.

ammyluv2002:
I never said we are doing the right thing. All, I'm saying is " Nigerians are smart"

DICKtator:


Perhaps he/she meant local Indians and not the ones that grew up anywhere else but their country.


And who told all the companies you listed are headed by Indians.

Hope you know Pakistanis,Bangladeshis, Sri Lankan,Nepalese and Indians are different by name?

The OP said Indians, why not disprove him by listing the non Indian CEO of these companies at the period a South Asian was CEO.

ammyluv2002:
Me

Ehn ehn, you just insulted Indians o, multinational companies won't prefer them to Nigerians if they ain't way better, they are very learned and travel all over the world in search of knowledge - you can't even compare

I cry for Nigerians.

DonXavi:
We have put ourselves in the place we are today. Successive leaders of this country have made this country the laughing stock that it is today to the outside world because they failed to do things differently.

How can you reconcile this, a restaurant owner whose children languish in hunger and starvation. That is the real picture of Nigeria and Nigerians.

So I don't blame the Indian for expressing his views about Nigeria.
We have everything that is needed to be a great nation, but because of the mismanagement, inefficiency and lack of foresight of the people we allowed to oversee what God has blessed us with we are where we are today.

Very very well said especially the bold portion. Sad situation. Ghana and Kenya have become the super powers of African despite the fact that they don't possess as much human capita (labor and intelligence) and natural resources as Nigeria does.

Countries like Japan doesn't even come close to the natural resources that Nigeria has, but they compensate by pooling in their human capita.

Nigeria has both human and natural resources, and yet................

UIA04:
He is an idiot
In as much as what he said is truth you can't help but not the insulting tone in which he said it. It is the same Nigeria he is condemning that he makes his daily bread from to feed himself and his family at home if his country is the best why isn't he at home developing it.
I blame the government for not placing an embargo on the bringing in of foreign rats into this country to Lord it over us when they aren't even worth 2cents and a nickel in theirs. His own country where there is poverty and they still give birth every ten minutes with their confused people with 100gods in just one man's house and increase in child marriage
Op why couldn't you Answer him if you really felt bad instead of bringing it to nairaland I know Nigeria is bad but I believe we are going to be better and are even way better than some countries in the world.

Why so mad ?

ammyluv2002:
Show me a successful Indian man and i will show you a smart thinking Nigerian behind his success. I have worked with the Indians, they always attach guys who does the work while they take the glory. Indians are good at management but not getting the work done

Loool!!!

Your last sentence is funny and contradictory!.

If you can define management (not Peter Drucker's definition),you would laugh at your last statement

But the question should've been,"Are good managers good leaders?

Theory X,Y and Z come to mind........

ttmacoy:
I never doubted Nigerians are smart, but I find interesting this atitude we have of trying to put others down to show how good we are e.g. your statement insinuating that Indians are not smart or Nigerian are smarter.

That Indian guys statement was the pure truth . Has nothing to do with Indians or Nigerians being smart or not.

There was an article the other about Nigerian having one of the largest LNG and the article went on to say but yet they still import refined gas. With all our smartness. Please.

It was never an insult. I have worked with them over the years and i will still say it anytime anyday
I'm not trying to put anybody down to make us feel good cause from where i stand, we are better off so why would i bring them down.

ammyluv2002:
We caused it...



Indians are not too smart yet Nigerian companies pay them well

When Nigerians voted to make a man like Buhari president of Nigeria, it was safe for the Indian to say Nigerians import intelligence.

Tinubu boasts that he begged Buhari to contest last time.

APCheats over to you for insults.

niyi20:


You are so on point just last week my company which is a dutch base company introduce the new project manager to us as an expatriate the guy look to young to me so I decided to do my own findings by questioning him . The guy told me he just finish technical school in Holland they sent him to Nigeria straight without any experience .

Because he is more likely to do a better job than most of you in Nigeria.

He would try to also produce the best he can produce at everything he does.

Truckpusher, come and tell this guy o. At least you have been a witness for a while now.

The Indian said nothing but the truth.

Is Nigeria not a major oil producing country? YES IT IS.

Does Nigeria import diesel and petrol? YES IT DOES.

This are well known global facts!

Is Nigeria also importing intelligence? YES IT DOES, thats why u have all manner of expatriates in that part of the world of which the Indian is also a part of the imported intelligence.

Are u living in self denial?

A country that has an accountant general yet they pay foreigners to come and do their job for them! Is that not also an importation of foreign intelligence?

Most Nigerians that have not moved out from their various states in Nigeria now speaks in fake foreign accent, is that not also an imported mentality?

So you expected the indian man to take the imported items from his country e.g imported tooth pick back to his country as something from Nigeria?

The man said the truth, though the truth hurts but it remains the truth.

Nigeria itself is also an Imported country which is also a well known fact.

keemaQ:



Ehn ehn, you just insulted Indians o, multinational companies won't prefer them to Nigerians if they ain't way better, they are very learned and travel all over the world in search of knowledge - you can't even compare

Lolz...as I'm reading this, i can picture the Indians in my ofis and it's making my day. Do you say learned and well traveled? Bros, think again! Even the so called multinational companies

while the guy is a fool, what he said is not totally wrong. we need to wake up in this country. Countries like India have developed tremendously in the past 20 years.


our fathers were able to call India poor country but my brothers dont try them now. they are far ahead of us. we are not even a thing compared to india is any field like technology, medicine, defense, agriculture or economy.


even this oil that we have. Its Indians who come buy it from us.

Cm'on dude, the Indian said nothing wrong. He is right about the country. Quit being emotional bro

EasternLionn:


That is why they made sure almost all companies in East were closed all these years.

E don be for zoo.

That's not true as Igbos are not accommodative and they are the most tribalist people on earth; How would a company grow in the east when you lack expertise in certain skills and instead of you to fill those positions with people who are experts from other tribes, you prefer putting an Igbo man in that position. America is number one today due to she bringing diverse group of people into America to work to develop the United States economy, do people think American visa lottery is for free? Any country that keep hatting will never develop likewise haters association world wide.

hansad:


When Nigerians voted to make a man like Buhari president of Nigeria, it was safe for the Indian to say Nigerians import intelligence.

Tinubu boasts that he begged Buhari contest last time.

APCheats over to you for insults.

Well, i don't know about that. All, i know is that Nigerians are smart that doesn't mean everyone in Nigeria are smart

do you know that Indians buy most of our crude oil?

refreshrate:
i no blame anybody but everyone posting on this topic.

Consider the following
1. Indians are very stingy.
2. If person call you say buy something when youre coming and you have indian blood what would your likely answer be?

Ive heard someone tell his babe they did not open shoprite on a saturday afternoon before so tell me who is worse?

Meanwhile nobody wey no dey use format similar to this when broke.

Tried selling a fridge to an indian once, dude broke the fridge cost down to the components and asked why he should now pay a 5k difference?
Why evils?

Im not racist o but business with indians? Fogerit mehn. you go short.
We fit play laugh chop curry rice together (all man go pay for himself) but once money enter the jist, im out the door

It is a big fat lie that we produce nothing but due to the fact that the government is not really serious about local production hence this ignorance. Nigeria produces: Wears( Shoes, bags, belt, suit and shirts), cars, pharmaceutical, furnitures, arts etcetera.

Importing inteligence! That one be like say na true ooo!

Ouch! That hurt. It would not be so in the nearest future

Legionss:
I work in a company where 90% of the staffs are the best any serious minded business person will be proud of. They’re hardworking, intelligent, and know what to do even before you tell them. Yet our ogas still went ahead and import a Lebanese man who spend most of the company time watching porn and knows absolutely nothing about our kind of work to be our overall manager..
.

Nonsense!

Show us the work your serious-minded, hardworking and intelligent people do.

Chiaka:
If we are frank! He said the truth.! so we should rather think to change the mentality by putting things right. Even revisiting the expatriate employment. All sort of persons come under the guise of expatriate whether they qualify or not. Have even seen fresh school leavers been employed as expatriate some people with little or no work experience in the area they are manning are also employed expatriate, all sort of abnormalities happen here!

There are many of them in Ratcon Construction Company as young as age 23yrs, the company pays their salary directly to Lebanon and they only on allowances and they even live like king. With no basic education, they earn like six times of the Nigerian workers (Graduates), their English is as poor as mine and some of them can't even write the Arabic they speak. They are hot tempered and best known for smoking and eating garlic. I left the job in 2012 and that was one of the best decision of my life.