This is one of the most inspiring responses I have read from a Nigerian on NL and I wish to commend @sadboi for this and pray you excel in your feat to contributing selflessly to your country.

This is one of the responses to questions (go to the bottom) put forward by nuzo on the 11th May 2009

I have read your arguements and wish to make few contributions, Nigeria can never get better if the intellectuals continue to run away from Nigeria. I am an Engr with specialisation in Project Mgt. (Civil). My returning  to Nigeria in August is to set up my consulting company. I have also been in talk with the Dean, Faculty of Law in the University of Abuja in the past two months over my interest to lecture their Engineering students on Best Project Management Practices without any fee ie absolutely free, maybe twice in a month. Furthermore, I have also developed a programme which I intend to lunch in Nigeria sometime next year when I settle down. The idea behind the programme is to organise scholarship exams, supervised by myself and some other yet-to-be-selected upright individuals, for the motherless babies, and the successful candidates will be listed and published at my website. The public will have the opportuinity of financing any of the scholars and the arrangement is such that each scholar/benefactor will have direct financial relationship with their financier. Financiers will have the right to opt out by giving ample notice so that we can make alternative arrangements for the scholar.

Presently, I have one scholar in my programme who lives at Enugu and I have not met her, as my sister conducted the test last year. That is all I can afford for now as UK tax system has not the best for savers. I am in my twenties and one of my greatest dream is to offer scholarship, upto University level, to at least fifty Nigerians before I die. The only reward I will ask of these scholars will be to replicate same to orphans. Imagine if thirty out of these fifty replicate the scholarship to at least five people.

There are much more we can do for this country, Nigeria.

I wish to go off topic a bit,
Yesterday was the worst day of my life. I got reported to my Company Manager yesterday by my Team Manager for visiting Nigerian website, nigeriamasterweb.com, during my break and I was cautioned and instructed never to visit any Nigerian website (''scam'') at work again even when I made it clear to them that it is a newspaper site. How worse can it get when people you work with are sent to spy your daily activities without you knowing it.

The nigerian situation is becoming more pathetic by the day. It looks almost irredeemable from all angles.

Day in day out, we hear of how people embezzle the public funds without being questioned. Those appointed to probe the embezzlers end up doing the same thing.
Corruption in the public and private institutions of the country.
Assassinations and assassination attempts.
No attempts to revitalize the fast decaying infrastructures like roads, railways, airline, schools, hospital and most importantly power generating plants. Our refineries are not even in the picture anymore.
Nothing is being done to tackle the ever rising unemployment rate.
Nothing is being done to rehabilitate, reorient and reconstruct the police force.
In most cases, one has to become a heartless wicked crook who will be willing to kill or cheat before you can have a bit of good life in nigeria.
The worst part is that Nigerians have become so used to being intimidated and pushed around by their leaders to the extent that they believe it's a normal life; the "will of god as most will say".
Everybody seem to have lost their common sense of reasoning.

I have been planning on returning home by january 2010 to continue contributing my quota to the nation building, but it seems nobody is working towards this. Its everyone for himself and his family.
With all these ills, I am about coming to a conclusion that my past present and future contributions may not make any difference to nation building, thereby abandoning this project and try to concentrate on my family alone.
On the other hand, while I was living in nigeria, I've never been used to watching things decay without aggressively voicing my opinion, be it to the government, the common man on the street, my friends and any member of my family.

How will I keep my eyes and mouth shut to these decays now that am even more exposed?

there are different types of people on NairaLand, those angered by their inability to get favours from the present day Nigeria government, Nuzo is one of those people - the other set are people just interested in making Naija great, the poster you quoted is genuinely one of them.

its relieving seeing some Nigerians think positive

blunt1990   = I_Laugh


you can change your Id all u like but your posts still the same




deny it.

yur off topic issue is only a tip of the iceberg when pp start talkin abt theirs, e go beta.

keep the real deal up.

@Poster. . .

It's good and encouraging to hear of your noble intentions.

Regarding your off-topic statement, I have a situation in which the newspaper website: Nigeriaworld.com is not accessible from my work environment. Knowing how these things work, there was no doubt access was disabled because of the "Nigeria" part of the site name. . .only if Nigerian leadership knew how much REAL 're-branding' required to even make serious countries take one more 'fair' look at the country their inept leadership has driven to the precipices of utter destruction!