Beautification Of Lagos: Pains & Losses Of Petty Traders

Like I mentioned earlier. Africa's problems are very easy to fix, the problem is we like to sort of claim it is complicated so we can avoid doing what needs to be done to solve the issues. Give you an example,

Education from Primary Level to Tertiary level in Africa,
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Problems:
 a) Schools are dilapidated and not equipped to handle the educational needs of students in today's global economy?
 b) Students are about 20 years behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to education and skill level
 c) Majority of the teachers are not adequately trained to provide the students with the level of education they need
 d) Most parents are not literate enough to help their kids with their educational needs at home
 

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS:

1) We live in a world were we have so many models we can copy from, Curriculum, building, teacher training programs, they all exist so we do not have to spend so much time trying to come up with solutions from scratch to the current situation in the country.

Instead of continuing to build and patch up old jakande buildings which we all know is to up to par in today's world. We should already be working on upgrading all the schools, even if we have to do it 5 schools at a time to standard level. Construct facilities that will with stand whatever the elements and the children have to throw at it for the next at least 10 years. Build top level science and computer labs, language and other training labs to help teach them what they need to learn to not only survive but compete with the rest of the world today and in years to come.
 
2) Teachers can be paid more decent wages and offered chances of actually earning more through incentive programs.
i) Incentives could be given to teachers who take and pass at least a class or two to build there knowledge and skill, each year.
ii) Students could be given a chance to anonymously grade the teaching skills of each teacher after each course term/year and the information collected can be used to help the teacher improve on skills and also award those who do very well for their commitment.

3) Schools can be equipped with resources and through there agricultural/home economics programs come up with ways to raise money to support various mini projects in the school each year and compete for more incentives with other schools. There are schools out here that plant vegetables and raise livestock, which are then sold to raise money for small projects. In other programs, students work on science projects and then submit these to national programs where money won is applied to help school

4) The States can in this situation use the many NYSC members to their advantage by providing the NYSC youths with positions as mentors and teacher’s assistants who not only help the teachers during classes but also help students by offering extra lessons every other day and helping tackle questions students may have after hours. Students email questions they may have on school work to these NYSC members who in turn provide them with solutions to help them learn the subject.

5) the NYSC youths can also offer after hour Adult training classes to parents who would like to get educated in skills that they believe they need to learn and master in other to better their own lives, help their children and in the end their community as a whole.



, I can go on and on and on with this but I believe it is possible to do all this in NO time, it is just that I have gotten to a point where I believe politics is doing more harm to the country than good cause of the sort of people we keep getting into these seats come every election and it is time for the people to take initiative and basically do for themselves for as long as they can and sue the government for not doing the job itself. This is a democracy, we have the power now and we can push to fix things if we want to see it fixed.

We are about to take over. We seriously need to take over. Cause I am sick and tired of watching as government after government pass through and at the end, can not do even the simplest things that need to be done.

We know Nigerians are driven by their need to make money ( Weird but I have found it true time after time), we can use this to our great advantage. We all know we have the resources available to revamp the entire school system if We REALLY WANTED TO DO IT. We all know that WE need a work force that is both knowledgable and able to compete with the rest of the world and bring this company out of the slums IF WE REALLY WANTED TO DO IT.

All the bureaucratic nonsense we have allowed to basically slow us down, we have known from the beginning would lead us no where but deep down the slum hole. Why we continue to allow it , baffles me? and in the end I think people will need to take over the country by force

I believe even as the majority we can sway the people to our side of the whole. How?? My simply showing them that it is possible and not as hard as they think. Imagine a situation where a private member or organization obtains aid of some kind from one of the bigger organizations out here or better still from donations from like-minded nigerians, actually goes down there and implements the school plan I outlined earlier in an area.

Just one school and members of the public are allowed to send their students there for one term. If that same organization goes back to the same people and people around who have seen the changes and have witnessed the good that has come from such in just 3 months, I am betting that people will want to push for that change in their own place.

This is the problem I see though. Look around you in the US, majority of the good things we have here has been funded by the people, the minority and over time, they have gained the trust of the people by continuing to do such. things may seem complicated in Nigeria but following the examples put forth by Idiagbon during his time, it is possible to change Nigeria by getting the people to see how good they


I understand that can make it themselves. This man did not really build so many new things in the country during his short time but he successfully got the majority of the country to go along with his CLEAN UP NIGERIA and so many other projects. It is still doable, I believe. As par the jealousy issue, I believe we are able to get around all that when the time comes.