Got this from a friend and thought to share it .....it's not political just some plain truth whether you are APC or PDP.....
Nigeria started generating power in 1898.
In 118 years, Nigeria has managed to generate and distribute no more than circa 5,000MW or 5GW annually
Compare to China who generates an �<b>ADDITIONAL 20,000MW or 20GW annually from Solar alone�</b>
You don't want to add what China is developing from Gas, Hydro, Coal, Wind, and Bio. You just may get depressed.
This means that....
What Nigeria generates annually after 118 years of generation, China is able to generate incrementally from Solar alone in 3 months only.
Yes....3 months!
If you add other sources outside solar, those 3 months could reduce to minutes.....
The idea of this writing is to shock you.
So.... Be totally shocked
The numbers and comparisons were intended to shock us out of our stupor-like decadence and intellectual laziness with unfounded sobriquet like &quot;Giants of Africa&quot; ringing in our empty ears.
Show us who we really are, where we really are, and where we might be headed
That's firstly..
Then secondly....
To point at our human resource as our critical resource and as the path forward.
To highlight the foolishness resident in crude-oil-laden thinking, which has so engulfed us as a nation.
To return to the Nigerian female and Nigerian male. And recognize them for who they are.....
Our most prized national assets
2. �<b>Crude Oil and National Income�</b>
This year alone just four companies are bringing investments of over 10 Billion USD into the Chinese pork industry. Nigeria has not attracted that that its almighty crude oil industry this year.
Brazil makes more money from Sugar Cane than Nigeria makes from Crude Oil.
Brazil's sugar cane industry employs 1.1million Brazilians and generates 86 Billion USD annually for Brazil.
If Nigeria can generate half of that figure (only 43 Billion USD) from crude oil this year, we will throw a grand celebratory party
3. �<b>National Budget�</b>
Nigeria's entire national budget for 2016 is 6 Trillion Naira. It is its highest budget ever.
In today's bank to bank rate, that's about 17Billion USD
On Friday November 28, 2014, just one company in America called Walmart, made sales of 8.5 Billion USD in a space of 24 hours.
Yes...you read it right just one company, Walmart, made sales as much as half of Nigeria's entire annual budget in a space of 24 hours.
And in case you need to know, Walmart makes annual sales in the region of 480 Billion USD.
Let me tell you what this means....please be prepared:
It means that one company alone, Walmart, from its revenue from one year only, could have financed Nigeria's budget from when I was born till date.
OK....let's move on....
Official figures say that America has over 2,000 (two thousand) cities. One of those cities is New York.
New York City's budget for 2016 is 73 Billion USD. Or Nigeria's national budget multiplied by four.
That means, that New York City alone, from its annual budget, can finance every single government expenditure of all governments (federal, state, and local governments) in the entire Nigeria for 4 whole years!
Just to add perspective, kindly note that New York is a municipality - our equivalent of Local government
Recall my numbers from above? Note that from just revenues for one single year, Walmart could have been able to fund Nigeria's budget from independence till date. Even with necessary adjustments for inflation and time value of money.
Understand the consequences of this? That one, (just one o!), well placed business in America, made more money in one year than Nigerian entire budget for last 56 years.
That's wealth creation the super entrepreneurs way. And Walmart is a &quot;super-enterprise&quot;
If we faced wealth creation via this vehicle I call &quot;super-enterprise&quot;, through the creation of new economies that crude oil would come only a very distant second to, we would be well on our way to global stardom.
However the know-how to create this kind of new wealth is locked away in people's brains. They need to be released. Hence.....your 200 million strong human assets are your most critical
And it is easier these days. Simply because of our brave new world propelled by brave new technologies. A flat world where goods and services can be produced anywhere and sold anywhere, at near zero delivery costs.
It means that our potential addressable market is suddenly closer to 7 billion people than it is to 200 million people.
And it means that the super enterprise way may have just been made easier to achieve...
And please note, all this shout about corruption this corruption that. Note that the source and focus of most of our corruption is crude oil and crude-oil-laden thinking. It is crude oil and Allied proceeds sharing that has led to most of the corruption we know today. So you can imagine that it is possible to drive a drastic reduction in corruption and like thinking with an approach that totally negates amd belittles crude oil
If China can make as money from ordinary pork meat as we make from crude oil, and Brazil can make double the money we make from crude oil, from that piece of edible grass called Sugar Cane, go figure!
#Curled#

Summarize please

food for thought food for thought

Really great post

emeijeh:
Summarize please

Just think Its time we realize the truth about who and where we are, how far we hv falling and to look inwards and see the strenght that lies in our diversity, to utilize our large human capital, and to realise that what we need to make the change lies within us.....

Solution: Nationalize in a developed nation.

charix:
Solution: Nationalize in a developed nation.

Lol....buh u knw you can't solve an already existing problem by running away 4rm it

I know many youths won't even read this to the end. Yet the only youth who can red to liberation is the one who reads nd implements rich content.

AustinStevens:


Lol....buh u knw you can't solve an already existing problem by running away 4rm it

I'm solving it only for my unborn generation. One can't solve problems influential people actively make money from.

pappy4real:
I know many youths won't even read this to the end. Yet the only youth who can red to liberation is the one who reads nd implements rich content.

I concur sir!

But come to think of it guys....if you are opportune to be in the hem of affairs of this great nation what steps would you take to make desirable difference in this nation more especially in the area of economic growth and development.

I humbly awaits your comments.
Cc:
pappy4real:
Charix:
Emeijeh:
Bravemargai:
Pointblank247:

Sell out bonds to finish steel complex,put refineries in order,establish farm implement construction company, start extensive cassava,rice and yam farms.

AustinStevens:
But come to think of it guys....if you are opportune to be in the hem of affairs of this great nation what steps would you take to make desirable difference in this nation more especially in the area of economic growth and development.

I humbly awaits your comments.
Cc:
pappy4real:
Charix:
Emeijeh:
Bravemargai:
Pointblank247:

I'd quote myself on this issue.

People've been typing advice to the government since pre-nairaland days - nothing. Leave matter for Mathias.

charix:

I'd quote myself on this issue.

....Lol. Will still love to know what u will do to make things better sir...

Bravemargai:
Sell out bonds to finish steel complex,put refineries in order,establish farm implement construction company, start extensive cassava,rice and yam farms.

Great ideas sir! But I want to ask, how lucrative is Nigeria's bond especially with the current issues in Forex...and since our institution is weak how do u intend to achive those.

Human resources is what developed countries like Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong etc and that is what will develope Biafra as well because we have it in abundance too.

BiafraIShere:
Human resources is what developed countries like Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong etc and that is what will develope Biafra as well because we have it in abundance too.

True talk sir...but the main issue should be how to utilize this aboundant human capital....cuz In as much as it could help boost productivity it can aswell be a barrier to growth.

Knock! Knock! Lalasticlala: