Billyonaire: If we have up to 10 million people with your mentality in Nigeria, we will not go anywhere at 100. Because, people like you pay no tax, contributes nothing ideologically to help augment the status of Nigeria's social and economic status except for tribal upper-cuts and blind criticism. Faith, hope and positivism cost nothing, but you still cant afford them. If I ask you just one suggestion you have for the Presidency to help improve Nigeria, I am sure you will keep the blame game on and on and on, now you descend on me with jabs about my person instead of the discourse on thread. I guess I just paid you back in your very 1naira coin.

dey go,we wont help u in your self delusion.Nigeria of 1960 had promise,Nigeria of 2012 in on its demise...juxaposition our leaders then Tafewa,Awolo,Azikwe,articulate,spartan and achievers,and now Goodluck and the gang progress or regress?

The question we should be asking is "What have i done as a Nigerian to make my country better at 52"??....I see progress (Even though its largely from the private sector) it could be better though. I Know young self made entrepreneurs(all under 30) that have been able to build sucessful businesses and they employ people. The citizens are more aware and rather than wait for the Government to spoon feed them are already rallying round themselves to make things happen. There's this saying that goes thus "Don't complain about somthing you have no plans of doing anything about. The easiest job in the world is to Criticize. As for me, I'm off to develop a solution to a problem in Nigeria that people will want to pay for me to solve.

gramci: You want to know? we now manufacture bombs in kano.

O boy, na true ooo!!!

ehie: dey go,we wont help u in your self delusion.Nigeria of 1960 had promise,Nigeria of 2012 in on its demise...juxaposition our leaders then Tafewa,Awolo,Azikwe,articulate,spartan and achievers,and now Goodluck and the gang progress or regress?

Can you summarize what you just wrote in simple understandable English ?

One nigeria is the root of our problem.

mankand:

What progress have you Yigbos made for Nigeria?
Nothing..
In Malaysia, China, Singapore, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Thailand few to mention Several Nigerians are on either life Jail or Death Row for several Drug Offences
Even In Nigeria here your brothers are still caught for Drug Offences

You Yigboos have done no good for Nigeria other than Disgrace.

Thank God I am not a Yigbo Man

yorimbas have achieved world record of child molestation , 80 percent of yoruba girls are raped by their relatives before the age of 18 , national disgrace,
The study conducted in Oyo and Osun states in liasion with a non-governmental organisation showed that 80 per cent of girls in southwest , before attaining age 18, experience sexual violence and abuse while 31 per cent of girls experience sexual violence and abuse before age 13.
http://www.punchng.com/feature/tackling-rape-and-sexual-abuse-in-osun/


also yorimbas have given us world record of the country with the highest number of scammers especially in u.k and united states.

[size=17pt]Nigerian/yorimba couple tried to claim £3.8m in ‘eye watering’ benefits scam using 1,400 identities
Adeola Thomas, 38, assisted by his partner, Abimbola Abiola, 34, secured £87,000 from fraudulent claims totalling £3.8million over four years
Thomas used 1,400 stolen identities to complete 2,495 handwritten tax and benefits claims forms

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52years and we are still suffering in the midst of plenty.

Billyonaire: If we have up to 10 million people with your mentality in Nigeria, we will not go anywhere at 100. Because, people like you pay no tax, contributes nothing ideologically to help augment the status of Nigeria's social and economic status except for tribal upper-cuts and blind criticism. Faith, hope and positivism cost nothing, but you still cant afford them. If I ask you just one suggestion you have for the Presidency to help improve Nigeria, I am sure you will keep the blame game on and on and on, now you descend on me with jabs about my person instead of the discourse on thread. I guess I just paid you back in your very 1naira coin.

From our encounter in the past I don't think I have in anyway sounded personal to make you conclude that I descended on you with jabs,its a good thing to be hopeful and positive but not in a deceptive and dishonest manner.
A country that is ranked the 6th largest oil producing nation by OPEC still struggles at 52 and you are talking of being positive without addressing government's incompetence to make meaningful impact,instead you resort to absurd theory of Nigeria being young at 52 and went further to compare Nigeria to the US at 52 without taking a closer look at what US was in 1800 when celebrating their 25th independence.
A country with a govt that is ranked the most expensive in the world,a govt that spent same amount Brazil spent to achieved 10,000MW to achieve just 1,200MW.
In 1985 Nigeria had a better economy than Malaysia and Singapore put together but today both countries are far ahead of us and you still believe Nigeria is too young at 52 to achieve something meaningful as a country.
South Africa is just 22 but has been able to achieve what we cannot achieve at 52,yet we generates far more revenue than South Africa.
Change your mind set and be reasonable without harbouring sentiment,that way we can both stand for what is right and oppose that which is wrong.

bashr8: yorimbas have achieved world record of child molestation , 80 percent of yoruba girls are raped by their relatives before the age of 18 , national disgrace,
The study conducted in Oyo and Osun states in liasion with a non-governmental organisation showed that 80 per cent of girls in southwest , before attaining age 18, experience sexual violence and abuse while 31 per cent of girls experience sexual violence and abuse before age 13.
http://www.punchng.com/feature/tackling-rape-and-sexual-abuse-in-osun/


also yorimbas have given us world record of the country with the highest number of scammers especially in u.k and united states.

[size=17pt]Nigerian/yorimba couple tried to claim £3.8m in ‘eye watering’ benefits scam using 1,400 identities
Adeola Thomas, 38, assisted by his partner, Abimbola Abiola, 34, secured £87,000 from fraudulent claims totalling £3.8million over four years
Thomas used 1,400 stolen identities to complete 2,495 handwritten tax and benefits claims forms

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210157/Nigerian-couple-tried-claim-3-8m-eye-watering-benefits-scam-using-1-400-identities.html#ixzz27yocRbfR
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DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY/WHY NOT NIGERIA HAS NOT ACHIEVED A LOT SO FAR AND YOU SEE THESE IDIO.TS HAVING TRIBAL ARGUMENTS! I

WISH I CAN REPLACE BIGOTS LIKE THIS WITH SENSIBLE PEOPLE, MAYBE THEN NIGERIA CAN ACHIEVE MORE THAN THE U.S AND OTHER

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My name is Nigeria !!! I need Re-Building and not Re-Branding.

In the next few hours, am going to spend 10 billion Naira to celebrate my 52nd birthday! I am Nigeria !!!.

I am divided into 36 unequal states, plus my capital territory, christened ABUJA . I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of water, but I cannot feed myself. So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion to import milk. I produce rice, but don't eat it. I have 60 million cattle but no milk. I have the capacity to feed the whole of Africa but I import most food instead.

I am hungry, please help and re-build me.

I drive the latest cars in the world but have no roads, neither can I boast of manufacturing a bicycle's tyre. I lose family and friends everyday on my roads for which funds have been allocated to build and rehabilitate but the fund has been looted. I lose my young, my old, and my most brainy and productive people to the potholes, craters and crevasses they travel on everyday. I am in permanent mourning, please re-build me.

My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof. I take lecture notes through the window and live with 15 others in a single room. All my professors have gone abroad, some of the rest are awaiting visas. Those that remain, depend on money raked from the sales of hand-outs to students. My students receive lectures for a maximum of 3 months in a year due to lecturers' strike or students' boycott of lectures because of lack of better condition of service and deplorable condition on campus. That explains why I have university graduates, who are semi- illiterates.
I want a future, please re-build me.

Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no electric power. So my wife gives birth by candle light and surgery is performed by quacks. All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are also waiting to go. I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before me.
I am hopeless, hapless and helpless, please re-build me.

I wanted change so I stood all day long to cast my vote. But even before I could vote, the results had been announced. When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets. My rulers are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors. I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy. I have no verve, no vote, no voice, please re-build me.

I have over 50 million youths with no jobs, no present and no future. So my sons in the North have become street urchins and their brothers in the South have become militants. My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and their cousins drown in the waters of the Mediterranean . My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt , while their sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam. I am inconsolable, please re-build me.

My people cannot sleep at night and cannot relax by day. They cannot use ATM machines, nor use cheques. My children sleep through the staccato of AK 47's, see through the mist of tear gas, while we all inhale Carbon Monoxide, poisonous CO-2 from popular 'I better pass my neighbour' (portable generators) and 'Okada' (motorbike taxis) The leaders have looted everything on ground and below. They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private jets (28 of which were bought in the last 12 months). They have stolen the future of generations yet unborn and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of hunger. I want justice, please re-build me.

I can produce anything, but import everything. So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa; my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland; my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy; my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia; my biscuit is made in Indonesia; my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France. My taste is far-flung and foreign. I no longer cook at home but take pride in eating at take-away outlets fashioned after the Western style of living.
Anything made in my land is inferior; I prefer those made in England, America or Europe . To crown it all, items made in my land but specifically sent abroad with made in England labels are brought back from 'Oyinbo' land at 5 times the original price it would have gone for had it been sold as home made, please re-brand me.

My people are cancerous from the greed of their friends who bleach palm oil with chemicals; my children died because they drank 'My Pikin' with NAFDAC numbers; my poor die because kerosene explodes in their faces; my land is dead because all the trees have been cut down; flood kills my people yearly because the drainage is clogged; my fish are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers; my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done. My livelihood is in jeopardy, and I am in the uttermost depths of despondence, please re-build me.

I have genuine leather but choose to eat it.. So I spend a billion dollars to import fake leather. I have four (4) refineries, but prefer to import fuel, so I waste more billions to import petrol and diesel. I have no security in my country, but would rather send troops to keep the peace in another man's land. I have 160 dams, but cannot get water to drink, so I buy 'pure' water that broils my inwards. I have a million children waiting to enter universities, but my ivory dungeons can only take a tenth (10 %). I have no power (electricity) , but choose to flare gas, and vote billion of dollars every year to generate electricity but not a single watt has come from it. So, my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at
the glare of naked flares. I have no direction, please re-build me.

My people pray to God every morning and every night, but commit every crime known to man because re-branded identities will never alter the tunes of inbred rhythms. Just as the drums of heritage heralds the frenzied jingles, remember - the Nigerian soul can only be Nigerian - fighting free from the cold embrace of a government that has no spring, no sense, no shame. So we watch the possessed, frenzied dance, drenched in silent tears as freedom is locked up in democracy's empty cellars. I need guidance, please re-build me.

But then, why can I not simply be me, without being re-branded?
Or does my complexion cloud the colour of my character?
Does my location limit the lengths of my liberty?
Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul?
Does my mien maim the mine of my mind?
And is this life worth re-branding?
Is it re-branding that I need or complete re-building?

Others blame my calamities on the colonial master that has left my shore some 51 years ago. Without deceiving myself, I know I have problems, who will deliver me? May be what I need is to be re-born, Christians call it being born-again. Turning to a higher authority or changing direction. I mean to sincerely own up and turn to the man up-stairs, may be, just maybe solution will come from there.

To re-build a wobbling structure, there is need for dismantling of existing one (remember, if the foundation can be destroyed, what can the
righteous do?).. Shall I then consider the idea muted by some of my own who have fled abroad?
Some call for 'Separation for Co-operation' , others call for true Federalism - while others are yet asking for the return to Parliamentary system.
Which way do I go? on October 1, 2009, I celebrated my 50th birthday and my 52nd is just around the corner, barely less than 2 weeks.
I do not want to carry on in my golden age without direction, ... so, please, help me God. Re-mould and Re-Build me.

PLEASE PRAY PERSISTENTLY FOR NIGERIA!!!!

Tolaaaaannni:

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DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY/WHY NOT NIGERIA HAS NOT ACHIEVED SO FAR? AND YOU SEE THESE IDIO.TS HAVING TRIBAL ARGUMENTS! I

WISH I CAN REPLACE BIGOTS LIKE THIS WITH SENSIBLE PEOPLE, MAYBE THEN NIGERIA CAN ACHIEVE MORE THAN THE U.S/ AND OTHER

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typical nigerian , start the the master bigot seun ,we allleaned bigotry here , theres no difference between nairaland and nigeria ,they are both run byu bigots.

chucky234: Make una dey on top of internet dey ask wetin Nigeria don achieve,whether if una join hands to make dis country good na bad thing.
January to December,Year to Year all of us dey here dey laff,fight,rub minds and rejoice like one family yet nobody fit help a fellow Nlander.
Jobless people full here for NL yet some Nlanders na oga for their office but to give job to another Nlanders na wahala.
Inspire dey sell motors to Nlanders for same price wey showrooms dey sell after dem wait for weeks to get the motor from oyinbo land, Seun dey charge Nlanders N10,000 daily to advertise something wey assurance no dey say dem go get buyer wey go cover dat 10k.
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Tell me how dis country wan take good if we no help each other,Igbos are successful in trade because dem dey help each other and we suppose take a cue from the Igbos.
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All those plenty grammar and analysis wey Shymmex and Tolaaaaaaani dey knack na waste of time,Shymmex own no too dey pain me because him na fake Nigerian.

bros you too much joor! Na only you talk wetin dey my mind! Abeg make I relax dey read una comments jare!

THERE'S STILL HOPE 4 A BETTER NIGERIA, AND IT BEGINS WITH U (i mean u, yes u reading dis nw).
Come 2 think of dis, Nigeria is just a name of a certain geographical location. We are 2 change 9ja

ba7man: The question we should be asking is "What have i done as a Nigerian to make my country better at 52"??....I see progress (Even though its largely from the private sector) it could be better though. I Know young self made entrepreneurs(all under 30) that have been able to build sucessful businesses and they employ people. The citizens are more aware and rather than wait for the Government to spoon feed them are already rallying round themselves to make things happen. There's this saying that goivees thus "Don't complain about somthing you have no plans of doing anything about. The easiest job in the ?iis to Criticize. As for me, I'm off to develop a solution to a problem in Nigeria that people will want to pay for m to solve.

I worked with a foreign company that came here to invest,they provided Jobs,paid their tax and in all respect,did their part in developing the Nigerian economy,should I tell you about the running battles they had with the Immigration,even when their papers were all in order,constant harrasment,intimidation bodering on blackmlail for legimate bussiness..was it the police,that saw Oyibo as white skin vomitting money,was it area boys that hounded them or was their own workers who would steal from them constantly.or was it the thousands they spent on diesel monthly...i wondered how long they managed to survive with so much working against them

Billyonaire: Can you summarize what you just wrote in simple understandable English ?

sorry cant help u there,use ur ipad 5,billionaire to google it

chucky234: From our encounter in the past I don't think I have in anyway sounded personal to make you conclude that I descended on you with jabs,its a g.
In 1985 Nigeria had a better economy than Malaysia and Singapore put together but today both countries are far ahead of us and you still believe Nigeria is too young at 52 to achieve something meaningful as a country.
South Africa is just 22 but has been able to achieve what we cannot achieve at 52,yet we generates far more revenue than South Africa.
Change your mind set and be reasonable without harbouring sentiment,that way we can both stand for what is right and oppose that which is wrong.

both countries dont even have oil

Nigera@52 has done greatly.. Surviving the civil war, coming out of several years of military misrule to a democratic dispensation and our still coexistence despite many intrigues to distabilise her entity are worth applauding. I won't join the fray of comparison. Be it with Singapore or any other nation. The course and destiny of nations varies and the factors enhancing and militating against individual nations are not same across boards. In as much as I agree that the nation ought to have made more progress at this stage of her existence, I must also acknowledge that we are not where we used to be 13 years ago.. Democracy is advancing, electorate awareness and electoral system cleansing is increasing, the economy is gradually growing, a lot of reforms are ongoing, corruption is on the decline( cross checks your facts, just recently the Transp intl commented on the countries drive to fight this menace as second to the US), more people are learning to understand how to draw the line between religion and reality so I foresee more tolerance and peaceful coexistence etc... You may choose to believe anything about the country but in my little assessment, there is hope and the framework for a greater economic emancipation has been laid

tpapi: av u paid ur induction dues

Wђɑ̤̥̈̊† induction dues lol.....I'm stil reading comments, I'm already enjoying †ђξ site, so many intelligent people in here. Hmmmmmm.

Corruptions & Terrorism

1.At least Bishop Oyedepo can boast of 4 private jets
2.At least we are the most populous country in Africa and also among the first six poverty stricken country in Nigeria.
3.At least we have the richest man in Africa who uses our money to enrich his so called company.
4.At least,PHCN is one of the best in putting a whole town into a plucking darkness for at least 3months.
5.At least,we don clock 52,many no even clock 40.

1.At least Bishop Oyedepo can boast of 4 private jets
2.At least we are the most populous country in Africa and also among the first six poverty stricken country in Africa.
3.At least we have the richest man in Africa who uses our money to enrich his so called company.
4.At least,PHCN is one of the best in putting a whole town into a plucking darkness for at least 3months.
5.At least,we don clock 52,many no even clock 40.

nigeria has achieved nothing, sorry, i mean nonsense! SMH

ehie: both countries dont even have oil

Abi ooo my sister,na only palm oil dem take dey follow China dey drag economic lord for Asia ooo.

miss 9ja:

Lol where re †ђξ gerlz?

Well I'm jex here Ť☺ learn from d intelligent people in here, I heard ther re many of em in here....thanx though fwend

Not to worry abt the gerlz, its just a natural law playing out here my dear. "unlike charges attract while like charges repel"...lol

For Nigeria to achieve anything, most of us need to love her. But 'To make men love their country,' said Edmund Burke, 'their country ought to be lovable.'

NIGERIA IS AN ANIMAL KINGDOM

1)For the first time,we have Nigerians dyeing to remain Nigerians(BAKASSI PEOPLE).
We don't really appreciate what we have until its lost.
2)Power supply is improving gradually,and it has never been as good as this since years back.
*i sincerely pray for the success of this nation,honestly.
ONE LOVE AND HAPPY INDEPENDENT TO NIGERIANS(IN ADVANCE)

Mr.T Anonymous:
1.At least Bishop Oyedepo can boast of 4 private jets
2.At least we are the most populous country in Africa and also among the first six poverty stricken country in Africa.
3.At least we have the richest man in Africa who uses our money to enrich his so called company.
4.At least,PHCN is one of the best in putting a whole town into a plucking darkness for at least 3months.
5.At least,we don clock 52,many no even clock 40.

choi, like vico will say, brus why evils?

berem: bros you too much joor! Na only you talk wetin dey my mind! Abeg make I relax dey read una comments jare!

Just a simple question deserve a simple answer '' HOW MANY NAIRALANDER YOU DON GIVE JOB FOR HERE? Pls name them....

ba7man: The question we should be asking is "What have i done as a Nigerian to make my country better at 52"??....I see progress (Even though its largely from the private sector) it could be better though. I Know young self made entrepreneurs(all under 30) that have been able to build sucessful businesses and they employ people. The citizens are more aware and rather than wait for the Government to spoon feed them are already rallying round themselves to make things happen. There's this saying that goes thus "Don't complain about somthing you have no plans of doing anything about. The easiest job in the world is to Criticize. As for me, I'm off to develop a solution to a problem in Nigeria that people will want to pay for me to solve.

When a mature mind speaks, it Iڪ quite easy †☺ identify Ǎ̜̣̍Ϟd his words soothes the tensed mind.

dotcom_na_me_na_me:

Just a simple question deserve a simple answer '' HOW MANY NAIRALANDER YOU DON GIVE JOB FOR HERE? Pls name them....

na wa for u self kwa. se she look like person wey get job? person wey dey always dey hia 24/7