obadiah777: DEUTERONOMY 28 CURSES. WE ARE IN HELL. THATS OUR PROBLEM AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN HELL TILL OUR PENANCE IS OVER. I DONT CARE IF YOU BRING IN BILL GATES TO RUN NIGERIA, YOU CANT FIGHT AGAINST PROPHESY

no be small matter, we are trully romancing and swimming in hell

Corruption

Not all that u mentioned but ME & U. Those tins u mentned re jst entity but U & I make up them. So it's we esp. we de governee cos we we re stil satisfied & accept wat is happenin.
When we get tired, we will stand up to our feet & our language wil be TIRED............ & EVOLUTION

Nigeria problem is selfishness. Everybody is clamouring to be in power for his or her pocket(corruption). Nigerian need to speak positive about nigeria. We must understand that words are powerful and we should start speaking the right words about our nation and our leaders. We voted them there and we must give them their chance to work.

Find Out!:
1)Leadership. Pure and simple. Be he a xtian or muslim, northerner or southerner, old or young, from ACN (without Tinubu's control) or CPC or even PDP (if such a candidate can ever be allowed to emerge from that cesspit of corruption and violence), as long as he knows that his allegiance is FIRST AND FOREMOST to the NIGERIAN PEOPLE, knows WHAT he's supposed to do, HOW he's supposed to do it, WHEN he's supposed to it and WHO he should delegate (if neccessary) to do it, then believe me, corruption, tribalism, religious bigotry, insecurity e.t.c. will cease to exist like they never happened. Of course not everybody will be happy, since some people derive joy only from chaos and sadness, but at least those unhappy with the wave of change originating from the President's desk & sweeping across the nation, will be powerless to stop it.


Those of you saying amalgamation, stop deceiving yourselves and looking for what may appear to be the easy way out, but is actually the hard way out. This country is not too big and not too diverse to be EFFECTIVELY governed by one person. Almost all the tribes in nigeria are already too interconnected, too intertwined to break up. CNN's popular description of Nigeria as "almost equally split between a muslim north and christian south" is not entirely correct. We don mix pass that one. All we need is re-sensitization and someone bold enough to whip senses into the heads of troublemakers from whatever tribe. I assure you, there'll be peace. Once upon a time, Jos was joyous and peaceful, Kaduna was quiet, Kano was all about commerce. Of course, there must have been undertones of jealousy and hate and bigotry, but the atmosphere of security at the time, relatively low unemployment rate compared to now, didn't permit anyone to mess up. Those who did were promptly dealt with (the small pockets of riots which broke out and were effectively quelled in the 80s, early to late 90s).
Now why is the violence looking like its impossible to stop? the answer is simple: those who should stop it (the politicians and public office holders) are benefiting from the divide and crisis so they are/ were reluctant to stop it. I used "were" because now, as will always happen with most evil plans, it appears to have gone over and beyond the control of the originators.

My opinion.

u want to re-sensitize almajiri right,u are not serious

D Don1: nigeria's problem is ethnicity. This is because our ethnicity has different morals and therefore does not respect each other's intentions. The presidential is where we all target. Can't u see? An Ibo man will not want to see a Hausa man become president. Let us practice confederalism where we do not target any presidential.

Na God go butter your bread for the new year...

You're just belaboring what i said...Our problem is that we've not learned how to cohabit together since we got forced to live together even though our ideals and way of life seem to be different. The best time we've has as a nation is when we brought what we had to the table in our different regions.

Nigeria's problem is that its an invalid entity - Nigeria's biggest problem is this geographical make up of people calling themselves Nigerians.

the most powerful country on planet earth became great through the values of equal opportunities and fairness for all despite the fact that there are different races and thousands of nationalities all thriving there.but you cant say that about so called giant of Africa

NIGERIA PROBLEMS

1. We are running a political system that is not suitable for the society. Nigeria is too divers a country. Federalism can never work but regionalism.

2. Military- there's no doubt that military governments has caused a lot of damages to the system which could not be easily reverted.

3. Religions and cultural culture most especially christianity and islam.

4. External influence. People attributes our predicament to the leaders alone without minding the fact that western countries sometimes deliberately impose a bad leader on us in order to achieve their selfish interest or to perpetuate their domination and exploitation. For instance, SAP of IBB administration was a strategies applied by the west to exploit Nigeria.

5. Illiteracy. Illiteracy is one of major problem facing our country today. Although it has been gradually reduce but yet majority of Nigerians,even the educated ones don't know their right and the reason to vote wisely during the election.

6. Bad leaders. Here I'm talking about unqualified leaders. For instance, we have many people who are not qualify educationally,psychologically and socially to be the leaders in the first place.

Jettage: the rot is skin deep, in short it is Complicated. Period......

Nigeria's problem is complicated, very very complicated.
The genesis of the problem can be traced back to 1966 (Year of the first coup and first holistic change of governmental system).
The cancer/problem escalated tremendously over the next five/six years and here we are. It has eaten deep into our political, cultural, economic and religious systems.
The damage is irreparable and we are past redemption. We just have keep living like this till God knows when.

mrs flawless: Corruption and unpatriotism. An average Nigerian is very corrupt. Civil Servants, Politicians, Professionals, Artisans e.t.c. Also nobody wants to serve and sees every opportunity to. Serve as an opportunity to cut, eat and keep their share of the national cake! The fact that we are not patriotic also, what Establishment, Nation or Company interviews 5 Candidates and then hands over the position of CEO or CinC to the least qualified,least inspiring and least charismatic of the candidates, simply because he is from a part of the nation not looking at track record.The day we start electing leaders based on capability and competence and not on ethnicity and religion is the time we begin to solve our problems as a nation.

Spot on, On point, precise. We are all part of the problem because corruption has turned to custom or tradition in our society.

Northerners, the muslims!!!

lorddannie: nigeria is just a composite of incompatible parts, until these parts go their separate ways there will always be problems. I mean unending problems

you have just said it exactly,whether they believe it or not,this is just the answer

islam + illiteracy + intolerance + corruption

1914 amalgamation and opposition to biafra actualization

Slizbeat: Apart from the boko haram menace that has claimed most of the deaths in 2012, that of crashes has also joined. Just the last half of the year 2012, nigeria has recorded 4 crashes. That of DANA airline killing 158 on board and over 40 on ground, Oil company Helicopter killing some foreign Investors and Oil Mogul, private jet of taraba state governor Danbaba Suntai leaving him Brain-damaged and yesterday's air mishap at bayelsa killing former NSA rtd. Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi and Executive and first christian governor of kaduna state, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa among Others. Now in your own views, what actually is the problem? Is it PDP? Is it ACN? Is it the North? Is it the South? Is it the East? Is it the West? Is it 1914 Amalgamation? Is it 1967 civil war? Is it the sins of the Nation? Is it GEJ? Is it OBJ? Is it Buhari? Is it Me? Is it the Pastors(those in disguise) and the judges? But on a serious Note, is much, what do you think?

simple.coruption,tribalism,religon,fedral character nd above all lack of propar integratn btw d north nd d south

We are simply not a morally upright people. The average Nigerian is insincere at best and since society is shaped by numbers, it means the vast majority of Nigerians are doing the wrong things most of the time.

Been a retardeen

D sage: NIGERIA PROBLEMS

1. We are running a political system that is not suitable for the society. Nigeria is too divers a country. Federalism can never work but regionalism.

2. Military- there's no doubt that military governments has caused a lot of damages to the system which could not be easily reverted.

3. Religions and cultural culture most especially christianity and islam.

4. External influence. People attributes our predicament to the leaders alone without minding the fact that western countries sometimes deliberately impose a bad leader on us in order to achieve their selfish interest or to perpetuate their domination and exploitation. For instance, SAP of IBB administration was a strategies applied by the west to exploit Nigeria.

5. Illiteracy. Illiteracy is one of major problem facing our country today. Although it has been gradually reduce but yet majority of Nigerians,even the educated ones don't know their right and the reason to vote wisely during the election.

6. Bad leaders. Here I'm talking about unqualified leaders. For instance, we have many people who are not qualify educationally,psychologically and socially to be the leaders in the first place.

talking about psychologically some of these leaders have Masters and PhD degrees in crimnology, kidnapping, arm robbing a.k.a embezzlement of public funds, ritual killing,rapping of citizens will, election rigging and other bad habbits too numerous to mention

In my own view,EVERY NIGERIAN IS NIGERIA'S PROBLEM!*fact*

The problem with Nigeria is you and I...the unpatriotic and uncaring nature of Nigerians for our fatherland. For me that is the real problem.

Nigeria did become a chronically corrupt country out of the blue, hence you can't wipe out corruption in Nigeria with a snap of your fingers.
Nigeria's problem all hovers around its systems, structures and institutions. They're all decayed and rotten. Also, given Nigeria's complex social and ethnic mould, it will be extremely difficult to repair the decay.

Our main problem. The root of all other problems is that the bulk of us have little sense of ownership in the nation as a whole.

An American in power thinks of implementing laws and working towards the betterment of all. A Nigerian thinks of his own village state region or tribe alone.

This I feel is our problem.

J12:

Nigeria's problem is complicated, very very complicated.
The genesis of the problem can be traced back to 1966 (Year of the first coup and first holistic change of governmental system).
The cancer/problem escalated tremendously over the next five/six years and here we are. It has eaten deep into our political, cultural, economic and religious systems.
The damage is irreparable and we are past redemption. We just have keep living like this till God knows when.

I don't believe we will live like this till Christ come. America has predicted our divorce and so shall it be, okay let me ask you this simple question can you die for this failed nation called Nigeria? But Americans can, British can, cotonu people can Ghanians can etc. To back it up with the prediction, check our political leaders and other leaders in other sectors, everybody is looting from the nation's treasury, killing innocent souls corruption in the highest other. Our leaders have vowed to finish our money before the country packs up. Every thing you see happening in this country is a catalyst for our separation, injustice against the people of God. God said --pheroh let my people go and he turned a deaf ear at last what happened. We are working inline with God's vision for our divorce, so don't be a block rather pray to aid this separation. Before the wrath of God falls upon the people of Nigeria and their people in diaspora who supporting this amalgam. so be warned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God's own country has prophesied what God said.

Arcard: 250 ethnic group unda wan roof

tell them

leaders

corrupt leaders

Corruption is Nigeria's major problem.

It is a simple problem. Our culture of yes-sir yes-ma (from fear and not healthy respect) of the ordinary people toward those in senior/higher positions on one hand; and the lack of intelligence of those in positions of responsibility to not know governance/responsibility is about service to others on the other hand.

Personally, I think our biggest problem is the "Nigerian mentality."... We need to "twerk" it a little bit and redefine what the Nigerian identity is...

The structure of the country and the inability of the political elites to accept the fact that Nigeria is a country of different countries is also one of our biggest problems... Change the mentality, redefine the identity, and restructure the country - then you'll see a different Nigeria... However, we also need mutual respect among the entities that make-up the country - and allowing every entity to grow at its own pace...

What GEN OJUKWU saw about 45yrs ago sitting down as a 32yrs old man. We are here confusing our selves.Nigeria is not,will not, can never be ONE!!!!

Sincere 9gerian:
Thank you for your comment. Your diagnosis is spot on. Nigeria's problem is structural. But are we ready to make the necessary changes? I dont think so. Any attempt to re-structure Nigeria will be fiercely resisted by the north.

who is this north dat we all are afraid of? We need to stop clamouring for a National Sovereign Conference and start working to make it a reality . I have an idea we can get atleast 20million signatures of Nigerians calling for a national sovereign conference and see wot happens mayb people like Falana and other activists can take it up from there . If we hold this conference and everybody decides to restructure apart from the north they will be asked to peacefully break off from our country.we can't continue like this