playmode: And they say we in diaspora must come back.Come back come do wetin

Why i go leave heaven go back to hell fire

In my foreign abode there is :

24 Electricity (No generator noise or fumes)

Clean Running Tap water

ADSL Internet -15MB per second and Uncapped (no download limit)

Good Roads

World Class Hospitals

Clean Food Markets

Cheap Land and Housing

Good Schools

GOD almighty i thank you for helping me make the right decision over a decade ago.

Nigeria = Useless Country ,Senseless people!

RedBenson: Com here @playmode, who send u? Ur wife vex u last nite abi na marine spirit dey control u dis morning? Wch kind hard abuse be that? U 4get say na here u take ur 1st succour? Take ur time o.

Na my wife say make you vote Jonathan?? My wife dey spa dey get massage while you no get light to watch Tv. Besides i don't believe in all these marine spirit nonsense. Na d kind mentality wey dey kill us for Nigeria be dat.For other countries scientist dey invent cure for diseases thing but for Nigeria we still dey chase witches and marine spirits.Very soon Jonathan go blame mami water spirit for lack of electricity. Talk about a society lost in superstitious beliefs

Gheng:
Ewu! Omo ale jati jati

Same to you ,NBGEKE

Gheng:
Ewu! Omo ale jati jati

playmode:

The Nigerians i am referring to are the ones who are corrupt,wicked and heartless not the honest hard working Nigerians.You must agree that the bad Nigerians out number good Nigerians 50 to 1.I am in no way referring to you or other Good Nigerians who realize the state we are in as nation.I am referring to Jonathan ,his wife ,all Nigerian politicians regardless of party affiliation and the people who intentionally voted for corrupt leaders after receiving bribes

otokx: The remodelled terminal job was below standard, we have been deceiving our selves in this country for a very long time.

@ yeboyes, don't be discouraged, keep on showing us some truth.

[b]Thank you my brother.Let me show you an example from another African country. Below is the newest Airport in South Africa.It was designed by a South African architect(Osmond Lange Architects) and built within 3 years by a South African construction company at a cost of $900 million.

They was no long stories or commission set ,there was no delay or embezzlement of funds.They needed a new aiprot and they just built without any hassle.Bear in Mind that South African Government makes less than the Nigerian Government.

Construction of the airport commenced on 24 August 2007.The airport handled its first commercial flights on 1 May 2010









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You can see from this picture below that they made adequate arrangement for covered parking so there is no clutter or traffic.That is evidence of good leadership ,great planning and competent execution of projects.

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The picture below shows part of the construction process

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econome: Is there power at Nigerians residence in diaspora?

billante:


You expect the federal govt to bring out a whooping 546 billion naira to build one power plant!! how much go come remain for other capital projects that are yearning for attention

In comparison govt is building a 3500 mega watts power plant at mambilla, even though its not using its own money to build it.....another private company is building a 1500 MW coal fired power plant in kogi state.

let the private sector be the one building upcoming power generation plants that nigeria needs to be a fully industrialized country......The govt has opened the sector for them to do so,
Dont expect the govt to use 3/4 of its capital budget to build one power plant just to answer a performing govt, thats stupidity to me

[b]We have close to $45 billion in foreign reserves at the moment. The money is just sitting in a bank account doing absolutely nothing for Nigerians. When Jonathan took over power we had over $35 billion but he withdrew the whole money, shared with his cronies and used the rest to campaign. Where were you then? Why did you not ask why Jonathan spent a whooping $35 billion on nothing?

If Jonathan can waste money on his cronies why can’t the Nigerian Government spend N546 billion to light up Nigeria? The minimum the Government makes every year from ONLY oil is $52 billion, what is wrong if they use half of that to build a massive power plant?

Are you saying the Chinese Government that spent $26 billion on the three Georges dam are stupid? Do you know when that dam was initiated? Construction of the dam began in 1984.At that time China was a nobody but they started building infrastructure rapidly because their leaders were visionaries who realized that those infrastructure will benefit them in future. Fast forward to 2013 and China is now the second largest economy in world and to top that , they own America!

Are you saying the leaders of South Africa are stupid by spending billions of dollars on new power plants? Right now the South Africans are spending close to $30 billion dollars to build 3 new coals plants,a solar plant and a new nuclear power plant. I guess according to you the South Africans are very stupid.

The South Africans are so stupid that Nigerians are flocking to their country to seek greener pastures. I wonder why the smart Nigerians are running away from Nigeria and running to stay with the stupid South Africans who wasted all their money to achieve 24 hours electricity, good roads, good hospitals, good schools and every other necessary infrastructure as well as services.

Let me ask you one question do we have a 911 line in Nigeria? In South Africa they have emergency lines for ambulances which shows up at your house within 10 minutes of calling. I guess they are also stupid for maintaining their health services to a high standard that anyone in the country can get an ambulance or helicopter free of charge within 10 minutes.

Nigerians leaders are so smart that Sick Nigerians including the wife of the smart Nigerian President are flying abroad for treatment when they get a small stomach ache. Yet the stupid South Africans built the world’s largest hospital known as baragwanath hospital.

















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Baragwanath Hospital is such a world class Hospital that medical schools in countries like USA, England,Australia and others send their student yearly to come and train there for six months at a time.



According to Guinness book of record Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is the biggest hospital in the world.The South Africans must be very stupid and wasteful to have built such a big hospital like this to accommodate many sick South africans. Below is Google map image of the scale of the entire hospital:

[img]http://jburgblog.files./2010/07/satellitenbild_bara2.png[/img]

When the smart Nigerians need a DNA test ,they fly the test sample to the Stupid South Africans in the above hospital because the Nigerians in all their smartness do not have a single DNA lab in the country.

Your argument is extremely flawed because you are indirectly saying it is okay for politicians to squander trillions of Naira every year but it is not okay for the Nigerian Government to spend money on a brand new power plant.

I am sure you also do not want the FG to spend $3billion to build two new state of art hospitals for Nigerians because it is a very stupid idea.

Your mindset is the same mindset our leaders have. Instead of just doing what they were elected to do they will say N564 billion is too much to spend on a new power project and make all kinds of excuses but they won’t find it hard embezzle the same money in order to hide it in offshore accounts.

Like I said before and I will always say it again, our leaders are not interested in changing our lives for the better. You just proved it with your comment that there are many Nigerians unfortunately who will not do what is right because they are not capable of doing the right thing. Instead they will make all kind of ridiculous excuses. The senators in Abuja earn $1.8 million dollars a year but you are complaining about spending N546 billion on electrifying Nigeria for a long time to come.

Those IPPs they are building now will not sustain Nigeria ,with a population of 160 million plus ,we need at least 100,000MW to have stable power supply. All the current IPPs combined will not even reach 12000MW so why only go for them when we have the money to do more.

Let me ask you one question ,GOD forbid if you have a child who has cancer and the Hospital told you that you need to pay them ¾ of your 1 year income to save him ,what will you do?

Will you say the money is too much and let the child die even though you know you will make the money back next year?[/b]

yeboyes:


[b]We have close to $45 billion in foreign reserves at the moment. The money is just sitting in a bank account doing absolutely nothing for Nigerians. When Jonathan took over power we had over $35 billion but he withdrew the whole money, shared with his cronies and used the rest to campaign. Where were you then? Why did you not ask why Jonathan spent a whooping $35 billion on nothing?

If Jonathan can waste money on his cronies why can’t the Nigerian Government spend N546 billion to light up Nigeria? The minimum the Government makes every year from ONLY oil is $52 billion, what is wrong if they use half of that to build a massive power plant?

Are you saying the Chinese Government that spent $26 billion on the three Georges dam are stupid? Do you know when that dam was initiated? Construction of the dam began in 1984.At that time China was a nobody but they started building infrastructure rapidly because their leaders were visionaries who realized that those infrastructure will benefit them in future. Fast forward to 2013 and China is now the second largest economy in world and to top that , they own America!

Are you saying the leaders of South Africa are stupid by spending billions of dollars on new power plants? Right now the South Africans are spending close to $30 billion dollars to build 3 new coals plants,a solar plant and a new nuclear power plant. I guess according to you the South Africans are very stupid.

The South Africans are so stupid that Nigerians are flocking to their country to seek greener pastures. I wonder why the smart Nigerians are running away from Nigeria and running to stay with the stupid South Africans who wasted all their money to achieve 24 hours electricity, good roads, good hospitals, good schools and every other necessary infrastructure as well as services.

Let me ask you one question do we have a 911 line in Nigeria? In South Africa they have emergency lines for ambulances which shows up at your house within 10 minutes of calling. I guess they are also stupid for maintaining their health services to a high standard that anyone in the country can get an ambulance or helicopter free of charge within 10 minutes.

Nigerians leaders are so smart that Sick Nigerians including the wife of the smart Nigerian President are flying abroad for treatment when they get a small stomach ache. Yet the stupid South Africans built the world’s largest hospital known as baragwanath hospital.

















[img]http://cdn.mg.co.za/crop/content/images/2012/06/18/0000122914.jpg/610x350/[/img]

[img]http://1.bp..com/_SAgVJjEZ_GA/SD7QtXWLmVI/AAAAAAAABZA/MYY79-2LsWE/s400/IMG_1723.JPG[/img]







[img]http://jburgblog.files./2010/09/26092010015.jpg[/img]



[img]http://jburgblog.files./2010/10/p1000372-medium.jpg[/img]

[img]http://jburgblog.files./2010/10/p1000320-medium.jpg[/img]

[img]http://jburgblog.files./2010/09/015-medium1.jpg[/img]

Baragwanath Hospital is such a world class Hospital that medical schools in countries like USA, England,Australia and others send their student yearly to come and train there for a six months at a time.



According to Guinness book of record Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is the biggest hospital in the world.The South Africans must be very stupid and wasteful to have built such a big hospital like this to accommodate many sick South africans. Below is Google map image of the scale of the entire hospital:

[img]http://jburgblog.files./2010/07/satellitenbild_bara2.png[/img]

When the smart Nigerians need a DNA test ,they fly the test sample to the Stupid South Africans in the above hospital because the Nigerians in all their smartness do not have a single DNA lab in the country.

Your argument is extremely flawed because you are indirectly saying it is okay for politicians to squander trillions of Naira every year but it is not okay for the Nigerian Government to spend money on a brand new power plant.

I am sure you also do not want the FG to spend $3billion to build two new state of art hospitals for Nigerians because it is a very stupid idea.

Your mindset is the same mindset our leaders have. Instead of just doing what they were elected to do they will say N564 billion is too much to spend on a new power project and make all kinds of excuses but they won’t find it hard embezzle the same money in order to hide it in offshore accounts.

Like I said before and I will always say it again, our leaders are not interested in changing our lives for the better. You just proved it with your comment that there are many Nigerians unfortunately who will not do what is right because they are not capable of doing the right thing. Instead they will make all kind of ridiculous excuses. The senators in Abuja earn $1.8 million dollars a year but you are complaining about spending N546 billion on electrifying Nigeria for a long time to come.

Those IPPs they are building now will not sustain Nigeria ,with a population of 160 million plus ,we need at least 100,000MW to have stable power supply. All the current IPPs combined will not even reach 12000MW so why only go for them when we have the money to do more.

Let me ask you one question ,GOD forbid if you have a child who has cancer and the Hospital told you that you need to pay them ¾ of your 1 year income to save him ,what will you do?

Will you say the money is too much and let the child die even though you know you will make the money back next year?[/b]

dasparrow:

Okay, makes sense. The situation in Nigeria is frustrating. I cannot even deny that. I have not seen light in my area for almost 1 week. I am going to my mom's place soon so that I can at least enjoy a little electricity. I thought of raising the family in Nigeria but I am afraid that I cannot. After service year, I am out of here before I loose my mind.

phantom: its easy to get angry wneh you see other countries that dont have what you have make giant strides honestly but truth be told we cant just sit down and throw figures around.we have had and still have devilishly corrupt leaders but IMHO if jesus comes down now and heads this country we will not see much change in 4 years you may not believe it.WHY? because our problem as a country has gone way beyond just our terrible leaders but also the followers.
In fact the MAIN PROBLEM WE HAVE is our present structure!!!nigeria has no foundation!no sense of nationhood amongst its citizens.this faulty structure wouldnt be the issue it is today if WE HAD CONTINOUSLY HAD GOOD LEADERS from inception.if economic progression and sustainability had been the watch word from day 1,tribalism and religion would have been diluted.these things wouldnt be an issue today but what do we have now? an existing faulty structure that has been made weaker by bad leaders.

[b]I can't believe i am saying this but i will just say it: MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS HONEST POST.

You see we are on the same page except i am so tired i used harsh words to express my frustration.What you have said is true and same as what i have been trying to say.

The reality is this : Where do we go from here

Do we keep sitting and feeling defeated or do we start mobilizing in every capacity to educate our fellow Nigerians?

Nigeria has a large community on facebook ,twitter and other social mediums .Why are are we not doing like the Egyptians and Libyans and organizing online rallies for starters to educate people.We can't just sit back and hope for the best.

I for one feel that Nigerian are too obsessed with the mentality of : "he go better" , "God's time is best" or "God will help us". I read my bible very well and last i checked GOD specifically stated that he will only help those who help themselves.We are a nation of 170 million why are we so scared of less than 100,000 thieves in Government.

In South Africa when the Government does nonsense ,the people go to the streets and start rioting.They don't tolerate nonsense ,that is why Government is doing everything to please the people.Now SA is just 50 million with probably the best equipped military in Africa ,yet the citizen are not scared of their government.

We have to make our Government be scared of the people,we have to show them that we have the power, not them.The only way we can do is by being united with one voice ,No Igbo ,No Yoruba ,No Hausa ,just Nigerians aka wazobians. We must start from somewhere and we must be serious if we want serious results.Enough of talking and fighting kung fu on Nairaland. Let us unite with one voice and criticize where necessary without fear,excuses,favor or tribal sentiment. [/b]

tspun: u don mad bfor? Y calling nigerians senseless pple. Have you forgotten ur parent still live here. .Idiot....

playmode:

[b]Thank you for your honest reply.Many people here will think i hate Nigeria or enjoy insulting my own people.That is not the case.Just like you ,i care and i am frustrated with the situation even though i am not directly affected by it.I feel so bad that my children may never want to come and live in Nigeria because of all the problems.

I feel sad that my people after 50 years of independence and $150 billion a year revenue are still living like slaves.I am tired of keeping quiet and i am going to take to youtube to lambast the Nigerian leadership.We must expose these leader for what they are .If need we should ask for foreign intervention to help end all this mess once and for all.Our problems can be fixed within a short period of time if we get the right leaders.It is a bonafide fact.Don't listen to people who ask to stay in Nigeria,travel out and see what living like a normal human being feel like.Trust me you never look back except to help make positive changes.

The overseas experience is not describable ,you have to experience to know what it feel like. In my 13 years of living abroad there has only being 3 power failures and they warned us in advance before they switched off the light.They switched off the light to remove old transformers and replace them with new ones.My brother come and see Good governance you will never be the same again.

Our people don't like to listen and they are too tribalistic to be intellegnt. They focus so much on tribe instead of substance.They don't care if a political candidate is a convicted thief.As long as he comes from their tribe they will vote for him.That tell me that there is something acutely wrong with the mentality of most Nigerians.People like Jonathan ,David Mark,Tinubu,Obasanjo,Yara dua,Akpabio,Ameachi,Okorocha and all the other politicians should not be leaders in any country.Most of these people are not intelligent.They are just rich corrupt people who use money to buy their way into power

Igbos are so corrupt that they always end up selling their birth right and voting for the wrong candidate to the detriment of their own IGBO agenda. Yorubas are too religious & professional back stabbers that they always support the wrong person to their own detriment and Hausas are too power obsessed that they feel all Nigerian leader musts always be Hausa. This is our biggest problem ,tribal politics.


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googlepikin: I thought you once said you stay in banana island? SMH

otokx: still no power in UNIPORT and ALUU.