Why Is Nigeria Backward?

What do u think is responsible for our backwardness in Nigeria or Africa in General.

I wonder where we (Nigerians) were when the rest of the world were busy discovering and inventing, maybe we were sleeping or have not started existing then.

I don't think its only the leaders that are bad, an average Nigerian or African is bad

i agree, maybe killing some of the old cargoes up there will be a beginning, what do u think?
   

@omonozozo

this people are old cargoes and don't need schooling, infact they very educated more than u and me.
we have tried dialoguing and its not helping matters. old bones are hard to bend!
what in my opinion wil solve the problem, is revolution, a little shedding of blood like mandela. without this, we will still be where we are and funsho has got absolutely notin 2 do wit this let's leave d dead and deal will those living

@luvlymoi

exactly my point. d problem is not really the leaders but all of us in Africa including u and me.
even a baby is corrupt. if u want 2 go c ur b/f or g/f and hv a litu sis/bro, if u don't giv them biscuit, dey will tel mumy but d moment u promise them vanilla icecream u hv their vote of confidence. is there really a solution 2 all this in afirca? 'because i think our problem starts rit 4rom embryo level

Because of bad leaders.

Colonization and the therefore the lack of patriotism has made people selfish.

Nigeria and Africa in general is backward because it's foundation is highly faulted.


but we have to look beyond this to move forward. Identifying the root of the problem is the first cure of this disease called african countries. The next step is repositioning ourselves in global affairs and we should find a way of improving our relevance and reducing our dependency. We need to think for ourselves and refuse leaders that are dogs to the west. We need leaders that would have the interest of the people at hearts.

@alero
Fine people are corrupt , and lawless but can u stop and ask your self if there is any rule of law. When a driver on the street drives carefully on his lane and some lame ass governor or government official drives carelessly with an escort and disregards traffic laws, do u expect this same person to be lawlful next time .
see ehn people are tired and frustrated. They have no one to look up too. The country is in such a state that people believe there is  no rule of law so they can for example kill funsho williams and nothin is going to happen.

we are backward because the leadership which ordinarily should chart a course of honesty,vision and unity for the polity has failed to address dese salient issues but concentrate on acrimony,corruption and whipping up of sentiments. ghana (our neighbour) is advancing in leaps and bounds ahead of us while we keep on with our rigmarrole

Northern Nigeria!

Take a look at Zamfara and Kano!

iicee dear . the power isnot wit the people in nigeria. there is a catel that holds on to power that is why a place like Sokoto has the ordacity to say they are Born to Rule 

that is part of our backwardness, religion and education.
dangote prefers to give scholarship to people in Lagos than give to those in kano (his place of birth) so that the next time he goes there, the uneducated youths come out to do 'rakar dede' for him and when he does something wrong they just wont have the guts to stand up to him 'because they depend on him for food.

i have been to kano and the situation there is very pathethic, the governor was a school teacher but since he became governor he has not done any single thing for the youths (education wise), all he did was form a millitant group in the name of religion

you think Nigeria will ever be one country with patriotism when you have 3 large groups roughly with different religions, ethnicities and native languages? Only  brute dictator like Saddam can hold the country like ours together, there is no clear majority or dominant culture in Nigeria, we have different groups with deifferent agendas and different beliefs. Nigeria was a fabrication of the British, it was never meant to be a country.

But anyway Nigeria is backward because its foundation is backward. There is no "first world" nation on this planet that has the kind of secterian divide that countries like Nigeria have. You cannot have the North majority moslem live with south and easter groups who are majority Christain, all with different ethnicities and cultures. A Nation needs a dominant culture and pride and nationalism that can never be derived from the mishmash of a country we have now.

a people get leadership they deserve. The reason we are backwards is because of visionless leaders and the reason we have visionless leaders is because the populace who should determine who governs them allow it.

simple , nigerians should stand against people like u frm taking power again and relegate u back to otta to raise ur precious chickens

Haaaa!!! woman it seems that nt only do y rear chickens but have gone further to imbibe the sensibilities and i.q. of d chicken u rear. Havent u heard d proverb that when elders play with children dey should be ready to get sand in there hair?