That's the result you get when you award stella oduah as best performing minister in faraway London despite protest from Nigerians who kicked against the award

The shame called MMIA, btw, wia d pic na

@ROSSIKE

Your post will show the moment you start acting like an adult and post without insulting people. This is not politics section.

Kairoseki77:

Shame on you.

I hope I never see your username complaining about corruption again.

Look at common BUS TERMINAL in Thailand (a developing country with a GDP and population similar to Nigeria):
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1269125_busstation_jpg411c7b63975f2f0833c8a84e3ae587ca
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1269126_ticket_pct_01_01_jpg568578fd05fad1c2d72fa7f189c99e5b

Look at the "Renovated' Enugu Airport:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1222982_23_jpg648b9906a614a4bb30c20591243c65ec
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1226306_AIRPORT_2_jpg34471968d3392912652738179eab5402
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1226305_AIRPORT_1_jpg7aef0a09caf63c681b8c88ce68301fb1

I will be waiting patiently to see what "unprecedented" and "comprehensive" remodeling is done at MMIA. While we are waiting for this miracle, "stupi,d, dumb ingrates" will be stripping unclad in our nation's busiest airport. Truly an international embarrassment.

Look at common BUS TERMINAL in Thailand (a developing country with a GDP and population similar to Nigeria):

Lies Lies Lies Lies. Thailand's population is roughly ONE THIRD of Nigeria's (64 milion) and her GDP is THREE TIMES that of Nigeria's at $702 Billion per annum, and her GDP per capita is 4 TIMES that of Nigeria at $11,000 per annum.

Lies will not save you, even if the moderators are helping you by deleting my posts, including the one you quoted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand

ROSSIKE:

Lier Lies Lies Lies. Thailand's population is roughly ONE THIRD of Nigeria's (64 milion) and her GDP is THREE TIMES that of Nigeria's at $702 Billion per annum, amnd her GDP per capita is 4 TIMES that pf Nigeria at $11,000 per annum.

Lies will not save you, even if the moderators are helping you by deleting my posts, including the one you quoted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand

Thailand's nominal GDP is $424 billion.

Nigeria's nominal GDP is estimated at $382 billion.
Source: http://businessdayonline.com/2013/10/gdp-rebasing-to-expose-nigerias-slim-tax-base/

By the way, I said similar, not exact.

Kairoseki77:

Thailand's nominal GDP is $424 billion.

Nigeria's nominal GDP is estimated at $382 billion.
Source: http://businessdayonline.com/2013/10/gdp-rebasing-to-expose-nigerias-slim-tax-base/

By the way, I said similar, not exact.

They are still not similar given that Thailand has just 64 million mouths to feed while Nigeria has 170 million! So Thailand can afford to spend $1 billion on a bus station, unlike Naija.

If I might add, Thailand lacks Nigeria's social problems - ethnic, religious etc. Their main ethnic group comprises 75% of the population, and 95% of the country are Buddhists! So you will always have less problems there compared to a place like Nigeria, especially in development stages as nations.

@kairoseki, wats similar between 64mil nd 160mil? You guys shud pls jst tke it easy on Stella. Sahara reporters has now takn it upon themselves to rubbish or sack Stella. Make una jst take am easy abeg

game_rod: what attitude? You are one of those who thinks the immigi officials should worship you because you just arrived from abroad? Give them your passport, get it stamped, move on, get your bag, face customs, simple. Which attitude?

have you ever been to airport before?did you pass through the immigration and customs check points there?I don't think so

ROSSIKE:

They are still not similar given that Thailand has just 64 million mouths to feed while Nigeria has 170 million! So Thailand can afford to spend $1 billion on a bus station, unlike Naija.

If I might add, Thailand lacks Nigeria's social problems - ethnic, religious etc. Their main ethnic group comprises 75% of the population, and 95% of the country are Buddhists! So you will always have less problems there compared to a place like Nigeria, especially in development stages as nations.

Na this one b development stage?
Hmmm retrograde development you mean.
Fela saw all this in the 70s. It has only got worse.

Thailand's major exports include Thai rice, textiles and footwear, fishery products, rubber, jewellery, cars, computers and electrical appliances.
Imagine if Thailand has some oil and gas.
Please stop making excuses for Nigeria.

LRNZH:

Na this one b development stage?
Hmmm retrograde development you mean.
Fela saw all this in the 70s. It has only got worse.

What has ''got worse''? I beg make we hear word. In the 70s kids ran around nake.d in the villages. You would eat a plate of food with ONE MEAT in it. That was the norm. Today, even mechanics eat dishes filled with all kinds of exotic meats and vegetables. Food is plentiful and cheap. Kids are driving around in Jeeps. In the 70s, rich men used to ride Peugeout 404. Poor men rode Molue, and Lagos was a cesspool of filth and garbage. UNLIKE TODAY. Many states have improved compared to the 70s.

tellwsdom: Are we talking about the HEAT or the IMMIGRATION??

I weak ooo, everyone is telling us about oda airport!

LRNZH:

Thailand's major exports include Thai rice, textiles and footwear, fishery products, rubber, jewellery, cars, computers and electrical appliances.
Imagine if Thailand has some oil and gas. Please stop making excuses for Nigeria.

If they had oil and gas they would most likely have succumbed to the 'oil curse' of other developing nations, for whom other sectors became 'unviable' to the business elite once oil and gas deposits were discovered. Afterall Nigeria also exported a variety of things like them before the discovery of oil.

Also, trying to analyse the Nigerian situation is not ''making excuses''. It is using your brain to analyse why such and such is the way it is. Every situation has a reason or history that led to it.

How come I catch cold at Enugu airport?
The mgt of MMIA is mediocre, they deserve to be sacked

Guy !
Na pomo (hide) and shaki (intestine and gut) be meat?
In the 70s civil servants were buying brand new Peugeot (top cars of their time assembled in Nigeria). How many civil servants fit buy brand new G - class or Range? No be used cars from Europe and US we dey call new car?
My brother the world has improved from 70s to today but Nigeria no follow. Because they have improved their technology and economy and we get access to those doesn't imply that Nigeria has improved significantly.
If you correct for Nigeria's foreign exchange earning and about 600 billion US dollars of oil money embezzled so far due to corruption she is a failure.

Go and see Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. It is more modern and functional than MMIA and Nnamdi Azikiwe Abuja Airport combined.

ROSSIKE:
What has ''got worse''? I beg make we hear word. In the 70s kids ran around nake.d in the villages. You would eat a plate of food with ONE MEAT in it. That was the norm. Today, even mechanics eat dishes filled with all kinds of exotic meats and vegetables. Food is plentiful and cheap. Kids are driving around in Jeeps. In the 70s, rich men used to ride Peugeout 404. Poor men rode Molue, and Lagos was a cesspool of filth and garbage. UNLIKE TODAY. Many states have improved compared to the 70s.

LRNZH: Guy !
Na pomo (hide) and shaki (intestine and gut) be meat?

In the 70s you couldn't even get that to fill your plate with.

In the 70s civil servants were buying brand new Peugeot (top cars of their time assembled in Nigeria). How many civil servants fit buy brand new G - class or Range? No be used cars from Europe and US we dey call new car?

How many civil servants were there then compared to today? Very few and highly pampered compared to the rest of the population. That is no yardstick for progress. The GENERAL POPULATION of Nigerians has it BETTER today than in the 1970s by all measurements. More people can afford a car, tv, fridge etc today than in the 70s, even proportional to the population. There is better access to health care. Infant mortality rates have fallen drastically since the 1970s. See UNICEF statistics: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria_statistics.html

Go and see Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. It is more modern and functional than MMIA and Nnamdi Azikiwe Abuja Airport combined.

No it is not. Also, you cannot speak for MMIA because it is undergoing remodelling. WAIT TILL IT IS COMPLETED BEFORE TRASHING IT.

ROSSIKE:

What has ''got worse''? I beg make we hear word. In the 70s kids ran around nake.d in the villages. You would eat a plate of food with ONE MEAT in it. That was the norm. Today, even mechanics eat dishes filled with all kinds of exotic meats and vegetables. Food is plentiful and cheap. Kids are driving around in Jeeps. In the 70s, rich men used to ride Peugeout 404. Poor men rode Molue, and Lagos was a cesspool of filth and garbage. UNLIKE TODAY. Many states have improved compared to the 70s.

And that is your yardstick for development? That people are driving jeeps in town? You truly think food is cheaper these days?
What are the trade offs today? Corruption is institutionalized, oil bunkering is rampant, insecurity is at an all time high, what with Boko haram and the rise of kidnapping.

Funny how you cite people driving around in jeeps as evidence of development...yet by march next year, your master plans to raise import duties on tokunbo cars , making it harder for the kids you cite to buy jeeps. Progress, eh?

ROSSIKE:

If they had oil and gas they would most likely have succumbed to the 'oil curse' of other developing nations, for whom other sectors became 'unviable' to the business elite once oil and gas deposits were discovered. Afterall Nigeria also exported a variety of things like them before the discovery of oil.

Also, trying to analyse the Nigerian situation is not ''making excuses''. It is using your brain to analyse why such and such is the way it is. Every situation has a reason or history that led to it.

Oil curse is an excuse peddled by countries to account for their mismanagement of oil resources.
Look at the list below of oil producing countries ranked by their volume of oil production
I want you to point to up to 50% of the top ones cursed by oil.

Canada produces more oil than Nigeria. Is Canada cursed by its oil?
Again stop making excuses for Nigeria.


Country Production (bbl/day) Share of World % Date of Information

— World 84,820,000[5] 100% —
1 Russia 10,900,000 13.28% 2013 est.[6][7]
2 Saudi Arabia 9,900,000 12.65% 2013 est.[6][8]
3 United States 8,453,000 9.97% 2013 est.
4 Iran 4,231,000 4.77% 2013 est.
5 China 4,073,000 4.56% 2013 est.
6 Canada 3,592,000 3.90% 2013 est.
7 Iraq 3,400,000 3.75% 2013 est.
8 United Arab Emirates 3,087,000 3.32% 2013 est.
9 Venezuela 3,023,000 4.74% 2013 est.
10 Mexico 2,934,000 3.56% 2013 est.
11 Kuwait 2,682,000 2.96% 2013 est.
12 Brazil 2,633,000 3.05% 2013 est.
13 Nigeria 2,525,000 2.62% 2013 est.
14 Norway 1,998,000 2.79% 2013 est.
15 Algeria 1,885,000 2.52% 2013 est.
16 Angola 1,840,000 2.31% 2013 est.
17 Kazakhstan 1,635,000 1.83% 2013 est.
18 Qatar 1,631,000 1.44% 2013 est.
19 United Kingdom 1,099,000 1.78% 2011 est.
20 Colombia 1,011,992 0.97% 2013 est.
21 Azerbaijan 987,000 1.20% 2011 est.
22 Indonesia 982,900 1.66%
23 India 897,300 1.04% 2013 est.
25 Oman 890,500 0.95% 2013 est.
26 Argentina 796,300 0.93% 2013 est.
27 Libya 700,000 0.85% 2013 est.[9]
28 Egypt 680,500 0.80% 2013 est.
29 Malaysia 693,700 0.82% 2013 est.
30 Ecuador 485,700 0.58% 2013 est.
31 Australia 589,200 0.70% 2013 est.
32 Syria 400,400 0.48% 2013 est.
33 Thailand 380,000 0.45% 2013 est.
35 Equatorial Guinea 346,000 0.41% 2013 est.
36 Vietnam 300,600 0.36% 2013 est.
37 Yemen 288,400 0.34% 2013
38 Taiwan 276,800 0.33% 2009
39 Congo, Republic of the 274,400 0.33% 2009
40 Denmark 262,100 0.31% 2009
41 Gabon 241,700 0.29% 2009
42 Turkmenistan 197,700 0.22% 2009
43 South Africa 191,000 0.22% 2009
44 Germany 156,800 0.19% 2009
45 Trinidad and Tobago 151,600 0.18% 2009
46 Peru 148,000 0.17% 2009
47 Italy 146,500 0.17% 2009
48 Brunei 146,000 0.17% 2009
49 Japan 132,700 0.16% 2009
50 Romania 117,000 0.14% 2009
51 Chad 115,000 0.13% 2009
52 Sudan 111,700 0.13% 2009
53 Ukraine 99,930 0.12% 2009
54 Timor-Leste 96,270 0.11% 2009
55 Tunisia 91,380 0.11% 2009
56 Cameroon 77,310 0.09% 2009
55 Uzbekistan 70,910 0.08% 2013
56 France 70,820 0.08% 2013
57 New Zealand 61,150 0.07% 2013
58 Suriname 59,190 0.07% 2013
59 Pakistan 59,140 0.07% 2013
60 Cote d'Ivoire 58,950 0.07% 2013
61 Netherlands 57,190 0.07% 2013
62 Turkey 52,980 0.06% 2013
63 Bahrain 48,560 0.06% 2013
64 Cuba 48,340 0.06% 20013
65 Korea, South 48,180 0.06% 2010
66 Bolivia 47,050 0.06% 2010
67 Papua New Guinea 35,090 0.04% 2009
68 Poland 34,140 0.04% 2009
69 Belarus 31,400 0.04% 2009
70 Spain 27,230 0.03% 2009
71 Croatia 23,960 0.03% 2009
72 Austria 21,880 0.03% 2009
73 Hungary 21,430 0.03% 2010
74 Burma 18,880 0.02% 2009
75 U.S. Virgin Islands 16,870 0.02% 2009
76 Mauritania 16,510 0.02% 2009
77 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 16,360 0.02% 2009
78 Guatemala 13,530 0.02% 2009
79 Philippines 12,000 0.02% 2013 est.[10]
80 Serbia 11,400 0.01% 2010
81 Belgium 11,220 0.01% 2009
82 Czech Republic 10,970 0.01% 2009
83 Singapore 10,910 0.01% 2009
84 Chile 10,850 0.01% 2009
85 Finland 8,718 0.01% 2009
86 Estonia 7,600 0.01% 2009
87 Ghana 7,081 0.01% 2009
88 Greece 6,779 0.01% 2009
89 Lithuania 6,333 0.01% 2009
90 Bangladesh 5,733 0.01% 2009
91 Albania 5,400 0.01% 2009
92 Mongolia 5,100 0.01% 2009
93 Sweden 4,833 0.01% 2009
94 Portugal 4,721 0.01% 2009
95 Slovakia 4,114 0.00% 2013
96 Morocco 4,053 0.00% 2013
97 Belize 3,990 0.00% 2013
98 Israel 3,806 0.00% 2013
99 Switzerland 3,488 0.00% 2013
100 Bulgaria 3,227 0.00% 2013
101 Aruba 2,235 0.00% 2013
102 Puerto Rico 1,783 0.00% 2013
103 Uruguay 997 0.00% 2010
104 Georgia 995 0.00% 2013
105 Kyrgyzstan 979 0.00% 2013
106 Barbados 765 0.00% 2013
107 Ireland 431 0.00% 2010
108 Tajikistan 221 0.00% 2013
109 Zambia 160 0.00% 2013
110 Korea, North 118 0.00% 2013
111 Somalia 108 0.00% 2013
112 Paraguay 31 0.00% 2013
113 Sierra Leone 29 0.00% 2013
114 Slovenia 5 0.00% 2013
115 Panama 2 0.00% 2013

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

texazzpete:

And that is your yardstick for development? That people are driving jeeps in town? You truly think food is cheaper these days?
What are the trade offs today? Corruption is institutionalized, oil bunkering is rampant, insecurity is at an all time high, what with Boko haram and the rise of kidnapping.

Funny how you cite people driving around in jeeps as evidence of development...yet by march next year, your master plans to raise import duties on tokunbo cars , making it harder for the kids you cite to buy jeeps. Progress, eh?

Nigeria: Basic statistics - The Rate Of Progress:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria_statistics.html

LRNZH: Guy !
Na pomo (hide) and shaki (intestine and gut) be meat?
In the 70s civil servants were buying brand new Peugeot (top cars of their time assembled in Nigeria). How many civil servants fit buy brand new G - class or Range? No be used cars from Europe and US we dey call new car?
My brother the world has improved from 70s to today but Nigeria no follow. Because they have improved their technology and economy and we get access to those doesn't imply that Nigeria has improved significantly.
If you correct for Nigeria's foreign exchange earning and about 600 billion US dollars of oil money embezzled so far due to corruption she is a failure.
Go and see Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. It is more modern and functional than MMIA and Nnamdi Azikiwe Abuja Airport combined.

Man you are all over the place with your posts. Are you talking about corruption, MMIA, Ghana v Nigeria or what.
Learn to state your points coherently.
But lets stick to civil servants driving peugeots in the 1970's. Fine how many were they then and what was their seniority level and how were these purchases financed. What I do know is that SCOA the company running the plants went bankrupt due to the oil glut of the early 1980's and consequent collapse of the naira dollar exchange rate. In other words that business model was not sustainable.

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LRNZH:
Oil curse is an excuse peddled by countries to account for their mismanagement of oil resources.
Look at the list below of oil producing countries ranked by their volume of oil produce and point to up to 50% of the top ones cursed by oil.

Again stop making excuses for Nigeria.


Country Production (bbl/day) Share of World % Date of Information

— World 84,820,000[5] 100% —
1 Russia 10,900,000 13.28% 2013 est.[6][7]
2 Saudi Arabia 9,900,000 12.65% 2013 est.[6][8]
3 United States 8,453,000 9.97% 2013 est.
4 Iran 4,231,000 4.77% 2013 est.
5 China 4,073,000 4.56% 2013 est.
6 Canada 3,592,000 3.90% 2013 est.
7 Iraq 3,400,000 3.75% 2013 est.
8 United Arab Emirates 3,087,000 3.32% 2013 est.
9 Venezuela 3,023,000 4.74% 2013 est.
10 Mexico 2,934,000 3.56% 2013 est.
11 Kuwait 2,682,000 2.96% 2013 est.
12 Brazil 2,633,000 3.05% 2013 est.
13 Nigeria 2,525,000 2.62% 2013 est.
14 Norway 1,998,000 2.79% 2013 est.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

Listing countries like Canada, Norway and the US alongside Nigeria is ludicrous. The ''oil curse'' does not refer to already industrialized nations or to tiny oil-rich fiefdoms like UAE and Kuwait.

Educate yourself on the Resource Curse, which is an important area of academic study.


Resource curse

'The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources, specifically point-source non-renewable resources like minerals and fuels, tend to have less economic growth and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources. This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).


The idea that natural resources might be more an economic curse than a blessing began to emerge in the 1980s. In this light, the term resource curse thesis was first used by Richard Auty in 1993 to describe how countries rich in natural resources were unable to use that wealth to boost their economies and how, counter-intuitively, these countries had lower economic growth than countries without an abundance of natural resources.[1] Numerous studies, including one by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, have shown a link between natural resource abundance and poor economic growth.[2] This disconnect between natural resource wealth and economic growth can be seen by looking at an example from the petroleum-producing countries. From 1965 to 1998, in the OPEC countries, gross national product per capita growth decreased on average by 1.3%, while in the rest of the developing world, per capita growth was on average 2.2%.[3] Some argue that financial flows from foreign aid can provoke effects that are similar to the resource curse.[4] ....

Internal conflict

Natural resources can, and often do, provoke conflicts within societies (Collier 2007), as different groups and factions fight for their share. Sometimes these emerge openly as separatist conflicts in regions where the resources are produced (such as in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province) but often the conflicts occur in more hidden forms, such as fights between different government ministries or departments for access to budgetary allocations. This tends to erode governments' abilities to function effectively..'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

tensor777:
Man you are all over the place with your posts. Are you talking about corruption MMIA Ghana v Nigeria or what.
Learn to state your points coherently.
But lets stick to civil servants driving peugeots in the 1970's. Fine how many were they then and what was their level and how were these purchases financed.

You are making my point. Nigeria's development stage in the 70s was commensurate with the size of its population. But the population has overgrown it's development stage hence civil servants can't afford brand new cars (not even assembled in Nigeria options exist). Try and finance a car or house purchase today if you will not be enslaved with the 18% or more interest rate.

dayleke:

Have you ever passed through the Nigerian Immigration and Customs at MMIA?
My brother,you go hear wehn.......!!!
Those people can make life so hard for someone,ask people who have.
Thanks....

seriously its annoying.. The day i was there.. Was just standing with my uncle nd then he went to check and we were waiting for him.. Next thing.. One tall guy with stupid ugly boots came nd was "if ure nt a passenger, pls move back nd u knw hw long dat place is.. All d way from d end he jst cleared errbody.. D kain beatin wey i don picture to dey beat am ehhn.. I jst say make i leave am

ROSSIKE:

Listing countries like Canada, Norway and the US alongside Nigeria is ludicrous. The ''oil curse'' does not refer to already industrialized nations or to tiny oil-rich fiefdoms like UAE and Kuwait.

Educate yourself on the Resource Curse, which is an important area of academic study.


Resource curse

'The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources, specifically point-source non-renewable resources like minerals and fuels, tend to have less economic growth and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources. This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).


The idea that natural resources might be more an economic curse than a blessing began to emerge in the 1980s. In this light, the term resource curse thesis was first used by Richard Auty in 1993 to describe how countries rich in natural resources were unable to use that wealth to boost their economies and how, counter-intuitively, these countries had lower economic growth than countries without an abundance of natural resources.[1] Numerous studies, including one by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, have shown a link between natural resource abundance and poor economic growth.[2] This disconnect between natural resource wealth and economic growth can be seen by looking at an example from the petroleum-producing countries. From 1965 to 1998, in the OPEC countries, gross national product per capita growth decreased on average by 1.3%, while in the rest of the developing world, per capita growth was on average 2.2%.[3] Some argue that financial flows from foreign aid can provoke effects that are similar to the resource curse.[4]'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

You have a brain. Think!

You chose the countries you want to analyse for resource curse. You say the others are already industrialised or fiefdoms. I laugh.
It is simple. The right things they did to become industrialised before oil is the same thing they are doing and managing their oil resources better.
You couldn't industrialise before oil and still can't manage the oil resources and you call it resource curse
You messed up.


By the way if you believe in resource curse how come you think Nigeria is doing a lot better today compared to the 70s? Nigeria can't be better and still be cursed na?
I too know book but no wan think.

LRNZH:

You are making my point. Nigeria's development stage in the 70s was commensurate with the size of its population. But the population has overgrown it's development stage hence civil servants can't afford brand new cars (not even assembled in Nigeria options exist). Try and finance a car or house purchase today if you will not be enslaved with the 18% or more interest rate.

What point are you making. Take it from me Nigeria was not rich in any way shape or form in the 1970s That a few thousand middle-ranking and senior civil servants could afford to drive brand new Peugeots tells you nothing about the standard of living of the average household in Nigeria. You do realise that most people then were subsistence farmers and petty traders and there were just a handful of universities.
What's more manufacturing and the wholesale trade was dominated by the Lebanese oligopolys like PZ and Leventis

LRNZH:

You are making my point. Nigeria's development stage in the 70s was commensurate with the size of its population.

No it wasn't. It was skewed in favour of a tiny, favoured elite (an offshoot of colonialism). In the 70s, we had about 5 or 6 universities for a population of 90 million people. Those graduates all got a job and a car the minute they came out of uni, because they were so few qualified people and many jobs to fill up. Today, we have 135 universities for a population that has only doubled in size since the 70s. It is no surprise that access to resources has become more 'democratised'..

tensor777:

What point are you making. Take it from me Nigeria was not rich in any way shape or form in the 1970s That a few thousand middle-ranking and senior civil servants could afford to drive brand new Peugeots tells you nothing about the standard of living of the average household in Nigeria. You do realise that most people then were subsistence farmers and petty traders and there were just a handful of universities.
What's more manufacturing and the wholesale trade was dominated by the Lebanese oligopolys like PZ and Leventis

Rich or whatever word you want to use.
Those 70s farmers and traders, civil servants trained our parents and some of us or we relied on abundant government scholarships. Today, how many farmers and traders or any other artisans can adequately send their wards to school? Government scholarships are non existent except you are well connected or a militant.

If you're too young to know this consult your folks.

ROSSIKE:

No it wasn't. It was skewed in favour of a tiny, favoured elite (an offshoot of colonialism). In the 70s, we had about 5 or 6 universities for a population of 90 million people. Those graduates all got a job and a car the minute they came out of uni, because they were so few qualified people and many jobs to fill up. Today, we have 135 universities for a population that has only doubled in size since the 70s. It is no surprise that access to resources has become more 'democratised'..

Those unis of the 70s were internationally competitive. Today's myriad of unis are patronised by kids whose guardians have no option of sending them to Ghana, India, Malaysia, Cyprus, UK, Canada or US.

So much for' democratised' (sic) development in Nigeria.

LRNZH:

Those unis of the 70s were internationally competitive. Today's myriad of unis are patronised by kids whose guardians have no option of sending them to Ghana, India, Malaysia, Cyprus, UK, Canada or US.

So much for development in Nigeria.

Please stop this romanticization of elitism. I prefer we have 135 average unis than 5 or 6 elite unis for pampered elite kids. Do you know in the 70s majority of Nigerians were stark illiterates? Today literacy rate stands at 65% at least. I think we've come a long way.