1. Don’t Create More Jobs, Just Increase Productivity

It is true we all want to see the FG create more jobs for the unemployed, but doing so without a determination to improve productivity is detrimental (a major cause of government’s inability to pay salaries).

Over 89,511 Federal Civil Servants in Nigeria generated about N1.04 trillion as revenue in 2017. Great right? Well, 20,658 Facebook employees generated N12.6 trillion in the same year. What does that tells us? Nigeria has serious productivity issues. Creating more and more unproductive jobs won’t solve our problems. Forcing everybody into unproductive entrepreneurial ventures won’t solve it either. Sometimes, a few productive hands can relatively turn around the whole situation.


2. More Education Can Lead to More Insurgency

Education produces high expectations (e.g. good job, big salaries, etc.). When those expectations are not met, it results to frustration and relative deprivation. Merely strengthening education or enrolling more Nigerians in schools may sometimes prove counterproductive.

The promotion of education in the country should be accompanied by a willingness to materialize the promises teachers give their students in the classrooms. Don’t tell people to go to school to study medicine & surgery if there are no functional hospitals to operate.

3. N100-gate, not Maina- or Dasuki-gate, Contributes More to Poverty

Have you noticed why it does appears that the fight against high profile corruption cases (e.g. Dasuki-gate) has actually not translated into prosperity of the common man? A World Bank stats reveal that in some developing countries, the poor pay 12.6% of their income to bribes while high-income households pay 6.4%.

No! They don’t pay bribes to Dasuki or Maina. The money goes to Uniform men on the road, electricity workers, road thugs, and the likes. To understand the meaning of high volume corruption, calculate 12.6% of the yearly income of the poor and multiply by 109 million poor people.

As much as the government is interested in 'eliminating' poverty by utilizing monies recovered from high profile corrupt persons, the fastest way to curb poverty is by waging a war against high volume corruption cases. N100 is nothing until you multiply it by the average number of transporters in 1 year.


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4. Stop Building Roads for Cars

Road crashes are somewhat inevitable in any part of the world, but like in most developed countries, it can be reduced, or at best, managed effectively.

But why does it seems like most developing and third world countries records more road crashes than the rest of the world? It is partly because they build roads for cars.

We are too car-centric we forget to include road signs, because obviously, conventional cars can’t read. We are too car-focused we ignore pedestrian bridges, good walkways and footpaths for humans. We see potholes and assume our cars are very rugged, it can bear anything, including bloodshed.

So let’s echo this: roads are not meant for cars, they are meant for people!! If we continue to construct roads with the consciousness that roads are meant for cars, we may not record any significant progress. Put human lives at the forefront of road construction projects, and watch how great our roads will become.


5. More Roads Won’t Solve Congestion Issues

High traffic rates and congestion remain some of the most prevalent threats to the survival of workers and industries, particularly in a city centre like Lagos. But the truth is this: constructing more roads doesn’t necessarily alleviate congestion problems. By building more roads for automotive vehicles, you raise congestion and, of course, sustainability issues.

To curb the problems of congestion, everybody must not move at the same time and peak-hour loads each day (e.g. 7AM & 5PM). If a certain number of workers are able to commute during less crowded periods of the day, why can’t we revisit this aspect of work-life, if it will free up space on formerly congested roads?

Ever wondered why there is less traffic congestion in the highbrow areas of Lagos? It is partly because the rich do not rise early.



Author: Project400

Wonderful write up. If government raises taxes on the rich, eliminates duplication of functions in mda's, enshrines meritocracy, punishes bad behaviour and invests in electricity and refineries, nigeria will be a great country.

trillville:
Wonderful write up. [/b]If government raises taxes on the rich[b], eliminates duplication of functions in mda's, enshrines meritocracy, punishes bad behaviour and invests in electricity and refineries, nigeria will be a great country.

I'm really in support of this,let the rich pay more

Displacing Buhari of his position alone provides more than 5 approaches to solving Nigeria problems.

trillville:
Wonderful write up. If government raises taxes on the rich, eliminates duplication of functions in mda's, enshrines meritocracy, punishes bad behaviour and invests in electricity and refineries, nigeria will be a great country.

Well said sir

6. Think out of the box, divide the useless contraption.

Break the shithole

4kDdullard:
Break the shithole

Don't you think breaking up without properly addressing the basics is tantamount to further troubles?

internationalman:
Displacing Buhari of his position alone provides more than 5 approaches to solving Nigeria problems.

Displacing without a better replacement?

Nice one but sadly, those who have idea don't have power and this who have power lack ideas

ilevic:
Nice one but sadly, those who have idea don't have power and this who have power lack ideas

Very true

ilevic:
Nice one but sadly, those who have idea don't have power and this who have power lack ideas

Very well said sir

Omololu2121:
I'm really in support of this,let the rich pay more

why
why punish productivity and reward laziness

trillville omololu project400
also why must you you hide behind govt
what stop you citizens from fixing power and refineries
or does dangote have 2 heads
where has govt ever worked anywhere in the world
say no to socialism

whose fault
they should stop being lazy and get ideas to get power

ilevic:
Nice one but sadly, those who have idea don't have power and this who have power lack ideas