Nigeria is backward because everytin falls to, and proceeds from d centre. There s no clear definition of functions and responsibilities among states. And this can be blamed on the northern and eastern elites & populace who fears d realities of the prosperity of other regions. They have refused 2 properly integrate (the east) or allow true federalism (northerns). There's goin 2 b light if we cut of from national creed and make it state. We will hav good roads if d state control their resources and pay little to sustain d centre. There should be a national and state system of education. The state system should be based on d state resources and immediate environment while d national should be based on our national philosophy. People should remove eye from d niger delta oil for once, haba,