A-town:


Guy, 3000 Gbosa for you juh. You get sense.
The EU and whoever should stfu in my opinion. Corruption and whatnot can not thrive without their help. All the people looting Nigeria dry have most of the stolen "gbemu" in EU/Western banks.

eGuerrilla:

Why is it that your response to any critical appraisal is always bereft of objectivity?

Was Singapore not colonised from 1826 to 1963? Ditto Malaysia - colonised by the Portuguese from 1511 to 1641; by the Dutch - from 1641 to 1824; by the British - from 1824 to 1942; and by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945.

eGuerrilla:

Why is it that your response to any critical appraisal is always bereft of objectivity?

Was Singapore not colonised from 1826 to 1963? Ditto Malaysia - colonised by the Portuguese from 1511 to 1641; by the Dutch - from 1641 to 1824; by the British - from 1824 to 1942; and by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945.

deletrue: It is people like you who because of hate, arising from not offered political appointment etc will not reasons considerably before jumping and responding to any issue not in favour of jona. Is this issue merely about colonisation? What did our colonial master do for us. They left with our wealth and are still colaborated with those past leaders like ibb, Obasanjo, Atuku in retaining those stolen many. How have they help us in returning these stolen wealth. To people like you, provided jona's name or his leadership is mentioned, your incomplete nuts in your brain will automatical waive one sided thereby prompting you to talk from both sides of your mouth. Reason next time before commenting.

Rossikk:

Of what use was currency strength when 95% of the country were illiterates?



Nostalgia for the peace wrought by poverty and deprivation.

How wouldn't the old days be 'better' when all they did was sit outside their huts eating palm kernels and drinking palmi?

There was no crime, since no one owned anything worth stealing. Very few had seen electricity, so there was no anger over 'power cuts'. You can't miss what you don't know. A bicycle was the sign of wealth in those ''good old days''. A man who could mount his bicycle and ride from his village to the next was a 'big boy'. Just ask your grandparents. They will confirm.

Rossikk: The EU should ask their member, Britain, what she did with all the monies earned from Nigerian exports from 1897 to 1960. If that money had been used to develop Nigeria rather than embezzled and used to develop England, Nigeria would have been as fully developed as South Africa at independence, and we wouldn't be having this conversation. So let them start with their own thievery. We are poor today because we are playing catch up, struggling to build things that should have been built 100 years ago.

eGuerrilla:

Why is it that your response to any critical appraisal is always bereft of objectivity?

Was Singapore not colonised from 1826 to 1963? Ditto Malaysia - colonised by the Portuguese from 1511 to 1641; by the Dutch - from 1641 to 1824; by the British - from 1824 to 1942; and by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945.

prof.femi:
Excuse, excuse, excuse, that's what so many Nigerians know how to do: give excuses. Me I don't see anything new in what "the EU" has said, or why it has spawned such arguments. Our country has many problems, but one that I see in every sector, every where is that as a people, we never like to take responsibility. Somebody else is always to blame. Everything must be handed to us. I am truly baffled by the ability of even the most intelligent Nigerians to descend to this level of reasoning. As a teacher in a Nigerian university (where we are supposed to have the most intelligent sets of Nigerians, se?) I see it all the time, and not just from the students!

sucess001:


Bros.

Are you just kidding or you really believe in these things you are posting. I pray the case is the former.

95% illiterates? According to Rosikk.com site ba?

My dad was a graduate living in Lagos and he had a car.

Plus electricity was already in Nigeria in the 60s.

Guy, do a little research. You 'll know that the Nigerian economy immediately the British left was good.

Even the Ghanian economy that was bad as recently as the 80s is now better than Naija's economy.

The question is..."were they not also colonised by the British?"

Rossikk:

And so because YOUR DAD went to uni and had a car means other Nigerians were equally 'blessed'?
How many universities were there in Nigeria at independence? Not even up to 1. University College Ibadan wasn't made a full fledged uni till 1962. So which university did your dad attend? Today we have 128 universities in the ''useless, failed Nigeria'', compared to the ''successful Nigeria'' of half university in 1960 under British rule!

That's Nairaland logic.





For how many? Considering 90% of Nigerians lived in rural areas in 1960, and rural areas had NO electricity whatsoever.



No, you need to awaken your dulkl brtain and learn the truth about your colonial past. If everything ws going honky dory, why were Awo, Zik, Enahoro, and other founding fathers bursting their assses and risking their lives to free the nation of colonialism?



Ghana is NOT doing better than the Nigerian economy. She's actually doing comparatively worse, all things considered. Ghana should really be like Kuwait. She has a tiny population, and is the world's largest exporter of cocoa, she exports gold, manganese, copper, and now oil and gas. Ghanaian should be asking what happened to all their money.

sucess001:



guy...really ehn! you re dull.

if you didnt know, back then, you dont nid to go to the university to live decently.

secondary school leavers would easily get jobs.

i also see your brain cant process the fact that then, there was no oil boom.

guy...am wasting intellectual energy with you. you dull!

eGuerrilla:

Why is it that your response to any critical appraisal is always bereft of objectivity?

Was Singapore not colonised from 1826 to 1963? Ditto Malaysia - colonised by the Portuguese from 1511 to 1641; by the Dutch - from 1641 to 1824; by the British - from 1824 to 1942; and by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945.

sucess001:



guy...really ehn! you re dull.

if you didnt know, back then, you dont nid to go to the university to live decently.

secondary school leavers would easily get jobs.


i also see your brain cant process the fact that then, there was no oil boom.

guy...am wasting intellectual energy with you. you dull!

A-town:


Guy, 3000 Gbosa for you juh. You get sense.
The EU and whoever should stfu in my opinion. Corruption and whatnot can not thrive without their help. All the people looting Nigeria dry have most of the stolen "gbemu" in EU/Western banks.

jess5:

So, when are your people going to collaborate with EU leaders so they can embezzle their countries money and hide them in Nigerian Banks. Are you trying to say Nigerian leaders are gullible robots with no minds of their own that can be manipulated by the west over and over again?

Or, are you part of the cartel loathing the country dry and fighting any information that shed light on their corrupt activities. The issue is, Nigeria is an independent country with its own leaders to make its own decisions.

jess5:

So, when are your people going to collaborate with EU leaders so they can embezzle their countries money and hide them in Nigerian Banks. Are you trying to say Nigerian leaders are gullible robots with no minds of their own that can be manipulated by the west over and over again?

Or, are you part of the cartel loathing the country dry and fighting any information that shed light on their corrupt activities. The issue is, Nigeria is an independent country with its own leaders to make its own decisions.

ngozievergreen:
US was colonized by british too. Lol.
However, inasmuch as we should have mended our ways after independence, the british to a large extent contributed to nigeria's prob.
British introduced tribalism into Nig(whether its related to ds topic or not), handing power to the 'malleable' northerners( that didnt insult their intelligence unlike Achebe,Zik,) and favouring them in the census(nepotism) and inciting their born-to -rule attitude. All in a bid to benefit better from Nigeria then and even now! Without thinking of the future outcome. A bad foundation is the worst thing that can happen to sth. No matter how much u repair d subsequent damages ( which Nig is doing now), the stuff will finally collapse to expose the faulty foundation.

And now, the spokesperson is mentioning bokoharam- wat caused the political arm of BH? No b born-to-rule?
The truth is all these tnz are interwoven, no matter how far the facts seem from the topic. Of course, d same north they selectively favoured later became burden to d nation : Much money is now spent on security; those that came back from d north are trying to gain their former balance(under employment), many vacant positions abide in d north but the insurgency there wont let ppl go there n work( all the undispatched salaries wil be used by the oga@d top there.
Youth service in d north is now dreaded. Small thing now, corpers wl start serving @ phone booths/call centres in the south.
The ques is : what were they thinking when they intentionally did the amalgamation? Infact, They were selfish with Nigeria and i know they enjoy Nig d way it is now

Akpu.Nku:
If Britain can come and rule Nigeria for just 5yrs again, you will see that Nigeria will be better than London with is current oil producing.

Akpu.Nku:
If Britain can come and rule Nigeria for just 5yrs again, you will see that Nigeria will be better than London with is current oil producing.

A-town:


Don't be an igonramus. How is that possible. If they rule us, they will siphon the resources and profits and use it to develop the so-called London. Isn't that what they did before?

Rossikk:

My brother do you know I'm beginning to suspect that some ancient deity blinded Africans in some way, perhaps as payback for rejecting him? I mean, how these people can sit here and tell me it's ok for the EU or US to complain about corruption in Nigeria, even as they sit on trillions of our money including the one stolen by they themselves, and yet we take them seriously when they pontificate, is beyond me.

I mean, imagine say Zenith bank was known to hold all the accounts of all armed robbers who ever lived in Nigeria. Then one day the Zenith bank chairman visits Nigerian police headquarters, Abuja to donate a few weapons, vehicles and communication gadgets to the police, followed by a press conference condemning armed robbery in the country, what would be your first reaction to Zenith bank's actions?

But for some reason, where the west is the 'Zenith bank' they get a free pass. No one asks them anything. It's really absurd. Are we under a spell?

Rossikk:

Stop dodging the question and the issue. The question being: How can someone who is an accessory to theft be pontificating about corruption in your country?

How can a person who is an essential component of the corruption in his role as keeper of your stolen money, come out and pontificate about corruption and you listen to him?

By allowing him to do this it shows you do NOT want to tackle corruption. You only want to play self-hating slave to whites. If you WISHED to tackle corruption, you would identify and attack ALL aspects of it, and ALL those responsible for it, since it is an international racket, a system. You do not pretend that there is only a local component to it. Hating the life out of the local component and flashing your 36 at the foreign component. You cannot attack a disease by fixing only ONE aspect of it. You must attack it FRONTALLY and HOLISTICALLY or your efforts are worthless.

Tracetruth: sorry, the people (missionaries)who brought the gospel of the LORD were not part of the colonial master.

jess5:

And it will be better if you stop dodging these questions,

1. Did the EU ask Nigeria leaders to continue stealing after decades of independence?
2. Did the EU force Nigerian leaders to steal Nigerian money and store in European banks?
3. Is the infrastructure, or your so called development proportional to the income Nigeria make yearly?

Yes, the British stole from Nigeria and made it poor. No one is denying that fact. But attacking what the British did decades ago and ignoring what your leaders have been doing for since independence is just making excuse for them to keep on stealing and doing very, very minimal work.

If you want to be fair, make your debate objective and not one sided.

Rossikk:

Ghana is NOT doing better than the Nigerian economy. She's actually doing comparatively worse, all things considered. Ghana should really be like Kuwait. She has a tiny population, less than Lagos and yet is the world's largest exporter of cocoa, a major exporter of gold, manganese, copper, and now oil and gas. Ghanaians should be asking what on earth happened to all their money, instead of comparing themselves to a country with 170 million mouths to feed.

A-town:


The guy dey give you facts, you dey return am with abuse. I was gonna give you the benefit of doubt until i saw your statement about the Ghanian economy doing better than Nigerias'. Return your college certificate to wherever you obtained it from.