More examples: A 19yr old guy nd his friends I know come together to organize a party charging people that attend. Was present while they were counting the gate takings and it was over a million that night alone. 19-20 year olds oooo....., A 22 year old guy already talkin about doin video coverage of shows and parties, packaging it and searching for a program on TV that can give him a 5min slot. Soon, he'll be paid to cover shows and he can attract sponsors. Not even 25 yet. A gurl that's just turning 24yrs old that's already organizing classes on craftmaking and she's making money. If you ask them about the country's situation, I'm sure their answers will be positive.

mike404: WORDS ON THE MARBLE "THIS ENTITY CALLED NIGERIA CAN BECOME A GREAT NATION WITHOUT ILLITERATE NOTHERN POLITICIANS SENATOR KANTI BELLO"

Nice one

Godogwu: Nigeria is 52 tomorrow and so we should not have any problems what so ever? Please don't be so gullible....every country had issues of theirs at 52 and still have issues at whatever age they are now. Then again, power has been improving, new and better roads have been built, education is thriving, economy is growing etc.....people should understand that everyone in Nigeria can't boast of success; that is very impossible....some people suffer, some smile and some are very happy, that generally how the world is. I'm forever proud of my country at 52 "Nigeria, great people, great nation"

nice one

You guys are not saying the truth that Nigeria has not achieved any thing. Nigeria has achieved many great things and the greatest of them is the removal of fuel subsidy

Nigeria is passing through a phase that doesn't mean its a failed state,and if you go back to history lane you can actually concur with me that every great country today had a rough time and they managed to come out from it so our case can't be any different,so arise all ye Patriotic Nigerians and show the enemies of this great country that we may be poor and underdeveloped but we are not stupid because we are Nigerians,the land of the black race and if Nigeria is shamed the black race is shamed.

52 years after Independence and Nigeria is importing orange juice from Israel. What kind of a country is this?

Nigeria is a country and it has its citizen. Ask what you have done to improve your country! Stop coming here and blab rubbish!

Todaynatoday: The truth is that Nigeria will remain the same if we the citizens refuse to change. You don't have to wait until you are told to do the right thing before you do it. We are complaining about government not doing anything but the truth is that we are just as crooked as those in power. The youths have lost focus & vision. Nobody is ready to change 4 d better & yet we expect the country to miraculously transform into heaven. Before you say a word about Nigeria not achieving anything, examine yourself, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN YOUR OWN LITTLE WAY TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY BETTER?

God bless you and your future generations!

madridsta007: 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!!!!

Are we suppose to laught at your joke or ur just being stupid?

Absolutely nothing......1992 was better than dis..1996 far better than dis 2004 still better..we are go into a state of oblivious where d past is better than d future.

alphamars: Absolutely nothing......1992 was better than dis..1996 far better than dis 2004 still better..we are go into a state of oblivious where d past is better than d future.

What have you done to salvage the situation since then?

Tolaaaaannni: Nigeria hasn't achieved a lot so far, but I believe it has a lot of potential to acheive more and we are going to get


there one day, be it divided or unitedly divided. Its just going to take some time. After all, it is a very young


country and it has had a lot of set backs compared to all the developed nations.

Is it wen Jesus has come?

Atleast boko haram dey rival al-qaeda

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shymexx:

If Nigerians are those who 'make-up' Nigeria, and Nigeria is a failure, so how do we classify Nigerians then?? Nigeria by itself is just a geographical location for Nigerians - and Nigeria can't do anything without Nigerians...

Religion defines a man's identity... It's a way a man moves higher in his level of consciousness... A man without a religion that defines who he is, is a man without an identity...

When I see Europeans, I see Christianity, and a saviour the looks like them...

When I see Arabs and Persians, I see Islam, and a prophet that looks like them...

When I see Indians, I see Hinduism, and a Krishna that looks like them..

When I see Chinese/Japanese/Koreans etc.., I see Buddhism, and a Buddha that looks like them...

Even South Americans had to create their own religion/identity based on their mix... Combination of native people, African religion, and European religion to create a new way of life for their people...

When I see black Africans, I see a people with no identity trying to fit in anywhere - yet we think we're the best thing since slice bread... It's not surprising that we're stuck at the bottom of every social ladder because we're a people with no principle, no sense of responsibility, and 'a people' trying to fit in everywhere....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ys8-sF1NU

^^i tell you, when he is not bullshitting around shymmex
makes a lot of sense.

*Kails*:
^^i tell you, when he is not bullshitting around shymmex
makes a lot of sense.

whoa where did you come from?!..That was Fast!.

~Royal~:


whoa where did you come from?!..That was Fast!.

hmmm...lol

Omo naija,mo le feyin si pepsi

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

no mind am, he dey accuse nairalanders say some no give some job, how many people him don give job for here, make he name them make we hear, or make those who he gave job testify for here make we all hear O!

krafty iyk: MENOPAUSE!!!, dat's wat a woman achieves @52!, n since Nigeria is yet to bear any meaningfull fruit up till dis period, NO HOPE! .....no wonder my IGBO fada's n 4fadas forsaw dis n tried to disinbark 4rm a ship dat seemed destined fr DOOM....mcheeeeeewww...i hiss in IGBO..

...and part of ur Igbo family (Bakassi) are begging to be re-absorb into my country (Nigeria)...now that confuse me!

Back in histroy i was told this men made name and change Nigeria economy can we still have leader's likE this ?

The answer to that question is "YES"

IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great nations Like Britain's, Russsia and the rest of them all begin like this but develop self train which lead to the great name we mention today.

" DONT LOOK @ WHAT NIGERIAN GOT TO OFFER BUT YOU WAHT WAHT YOU CAN OFFER NIGERIANS" So Nigeria await the best in you....................

getukudo:

Are we suppose to laught at your joke or ur just being stupid?

You are supposed to sue me if anything that was written there is a lie.... Or reflect on the state of the nation and think and plan and design methods of contributing you own quota if everything written there is the honest and painful truth.

ba7man: If he had spent 1/4 of the space writing all that to propose solutions.......We should learn to focus on solutions, anyone can list problems.

If you recognise that there is a problem, it is only then that you can be able to confidently seek for solutions. Unfortunately many of us live in the delusional fool's paradise believing that there is no problem at all.

madridsta007:

You are supposed to sue me if anything that was written there is a lie.... Or reflect on the state of the nation and think and plan and design methods of contributing you own quota if everything written there is the honest and painful truth.

You are part of the system and also a citizen of the country. I would rather you contribute your own quota to the development of the economy and Nigerians as a whole. Mike Adenuga did and today SIM cards are sold cheap. What can you do for your country?

madridsta007:

If you recognise that there is a problem, it is only then that you can be able to confidently seek for solutions. Unfortunately many of us live in the delusional fool's paradise believing that there is no problem at all.

You could sit down curse all you want or rather get up to work and solve a problem you think is bothering you as a person. The Wright Brothers did, remember? And today you are flying from one city to another, from one country to another. And guess what? They didn't wait for Govt to come to their aid. Get up and work!!!

getukudo:

You could sit down curse all you want or rather get up to work and solve a problem you think is bothering you as a person. The Wright Brothers did, remember? And today you are flying from one city to another, from one country to another. And guess what? They didn't wait for Govt to come to their aid. Get up and work!!!

he stated the truth,why are forcing ur warped opinins on him?

getukudo:

You are part of the system and also a citizen of the country. I would rather you contribute your own quota to the development of the economy and Nigerians as a whole. Mike Adenuga did and today SIM cards are sold cheap. What can you do for your country?

Frankly, if I list what I have done in my own humble stead as a Nigerian, 'Bragging' would be the best word to describe it. You don't know me. I don't know you, so please don't assume.
Like I said, I am very happy to be sued by you, if what I wrote there is all false. Tackle the content and not the person, my dear friend.

getukudo:

You could sit down curse all you want or rather get up to work and solve a problem you think is bothering you as a person. The Wright Brothers did, remember? And today you are flying from one city to another, from one country to another. And guess what? They didn't wait for Govt to come to their aid. Get up and work!!!

It sad, but I think your comments is haunting you. The Wright Brothers, I do not know them personally, but it would be laughable thinking that they clothed themselves in the cheap clothing of deceit like some of us here. That's why Nigeria is in its present quagmire, with the vain few, failing to accept that there is a problem.

Unless a child who sees 10% score in his WAEC exam accepts he has a problem, he would never move from his 10%, as he sees 10% as 'excellent'.

madridsta007:

It sad, but I think your comments is haunting you. The Wright Brothers, I do not know them personally, but it would be laughable thinking that they clothed themselves in the cheap clothing of deceit like some of us here. That's why Nigeria is in its present quagmire, with the vain few, failing to accept a problem.

Unless a child who sees 10% score in his WAEC exam accepts he has a problem, he would never move from his 10%.

So if a child who sees 10% score in his result and fails to work harder to gain a better score. Who do we blame? WAEC or The Child?

Arise o compatriots,Nigeria's call obey,To serve our fatherland with love and strength and faith,The labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain,To serve with heart and migth.one nation bound in freedom,peace and unity

I pledge to Nigeria my country,to be faithful,loyal and honest,To defend Nigeria with all my strength,To defend her unity,and uphold her honor and glory,so help me God.

WE CELEBRATE THE LABOUR OF OUR HEROES,HAPPY INDEPENDENCE!!!