Trump NEVER CALLED NIGERIA A ''Shithole''.

In a private meeting with his officials, he referred to ''African countries in general'' plus Haiti, as ''shithole countries'', asking why the US was allowing people from those countries into the US. He stated that he preferred ''immigrants from Norway''. The whole incident caused a media storm in the US, with charges of racism aimed at the US dictator.

The way Nigerians somehow used this racist's utterances which had NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THEM, AND DID NOT REFER TO THEM AT ALL, and started to beat up on themselves with it, claiming he called NIGERIA a "shithole" is really shameful and tragic.

Some of you must really have another country somewhere, to be so eagerly spitting on your current one.

Some of you need to realise that when you call Nigeria a ''shithole'', it is your mother's house you are calling a ''shithole''.

Many of you keep thinking you are somehow separate from the country you insult and denigrate each day before the whole world.

But the world doesn't see it that way. AT ALL.

The more you denigrate your country online, the worse you and your children will be treated by foreigners, and by the rest of the world. Guaranteed. And the more you will be hated and discriminated against, and treated with suspicion.

An Igbo proverb says that if a snake pretends to lack venom, little kids will use it to tie firewood.

In an increasingly globalised world, where trust itself is a currency stronger than the dollar, you are shooting yourselves in the foot, by choosing not to criticize the country while still granting it its basic.....dignity.

This is the country of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Of Mallam Aminu Kano. Of Chinua Achebe. Of Wole Soyinka. Of Tai Solarin. Of Chief Gani Fawehinmi. Of Chief Bola Ige. Of Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie.

The country of Segun Odegbami, Nwankwo Kanu, Jay Jay Okocha, Finidi George, Rashidi Yekini, Sunday Oliseh, and Daniel 'the Bull' Amokachi.

The country of Chief Osita Osadebe, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Tuface Idibia, Wizkid, Tekno, Yemi Alade, among hundreds of other world class luminaries that have stood up and shown the world our huge potential .

A country of luminaries. HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A SHITHOLE?


We are a developing country, like 80% of the world's nations. Our problem is that due to our colonial history, whenever we travel abroad we go to the UK, USA, or Western Europe. These countries make up less than 15% of the world population. But for most of us, when describing what happens ''abroad'', we are usually referring to those countries.

We rarely travel to places like Nepal, Cambodia, Senegal, Bangladesh, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Guinea, Eritrea, Colombia, Uganda, Burma, Afghanistan, Mali, Pakistan etc, which is where the majority of the world lives. For most of us, these countries might as well not exist. We never talk about them.

If we shed our colonial complex that tells us that ''abroad'' only means London and New York, and started to really tour the world and see it as it is, maybe even see that things like power outages are VERY COMMON IN MOST COUNTRIES, that corruption is the norm in most countries, that inefficiency, nepotism, crime etc are not unique to Nigeria, then we just might start to hate our own country a little less.

He actually did. Is Nigeria no longer an African country

FRANNN:
He actually did. Is Nigeria no longer an African country

He never mentioned the world NIGERIA, so it is wrong and misleading to claim he called Nigeria a shithole.

By the way, had he described Africa as a beautiful continent, would you have automatically assumed he was referring to Nigeria?

Thought not.

You only attract the negative, like a cursed fly.

Rossikki:


He never mentioned the world NIGERIA, so it is wrong and misleading to claim he called Nigeria a shithole.

By the way, had he described Africa as a beautiful continent, would you have automatically assumed he was referring to Nigeria?

Thought not.

You only attract the negative, like a cursed fly.

You're deluded

FRANNN:
You're deluded

How so?

Rossikki:


How so?

You just have this strong belief that Nigeria is a great country where everything works but in reality, it's not so. How sad

FRANNN:
You just have this strong belief that Nigeria is a great country where everything works but in reality, it's not so. How sad

What is it about some of you that makes you so shallow and thoughtless?

I stated very clearly above that Nigeria is a developing country like majority of the world's nations, even listing many problems afflicting it. How does that translate in your brain to it being ''a great country where everything works''?

I know your problem. Like so many others you have a one-track mind in this. A country is either an Eldorado like the USA or a ''shithole'' like Nigeria. There is no concept of ''developing nation'' in your mindset. No grey areas. The USA is better in all ways than Nigeria. But a little thought will set you aright. In the USA 50,000 people are killed in gun crime annually.

That's like 50 Boko Haram groups operating at once. You are safer in most Nigerian cities than you'd be in Chicago or LA. Or Detroit. So clearly, everything does not ''work'' in America. Things go terribly wrong there an awful lot of times. Police brutality is rife there. Racism is a real issue impacting the lives of millions. So every country has problems. As the Igbo song goes,

''For whom is it good
For whom is it good?
There is no one
for whom it is good."

Rossikki:


What is it about some of you that makes you so shallow and thoughtless?

I stated very clearly above that Nigeria is developing country like majority of the world's nations, even listing many problems afflicting it. How does that translate in your brain to it being ''a great country where everything works''?

That's what you really believe

Rossikki:
Trump NEVER CALLED NIGERIA A ''Shithole''.

In a private meeting with his officials, he referred to ''African countries in general'' plus Haiti, as ''shithole countries'', asking why the US was allowing people from those countries into the US. He stated that he preferred ''immigrants from Norway''. The whole incident caused a media storm in the US, with charges of racism aimed at the US dictator.

The way Nigerians somehow used this racist's utterances which had NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THEM, AND DID NOT REFER TO THEM AT ALL, and started to beat up on themselves with it, claiming he called NIGERIA a "shithole" is really shameful and tragic.

Some of you must really have another country somewhere, to be so eagerly spitting on your current one.

Some of you need to realise that when you call Nigeria a ''shithole'', it is your mother's house you are calling a ''shithole''.

Many of you keep thinking you are somehow separate from the country you insult and denigrate each day before the whole world.

But the world doesn't see it that way. AT ALL.

The more you denigrate your country online, the worse you and your children will be treated by foreigners, and by the rest of the world. Guaranteed. And the more you will be hated and discriminated against, and treated with suspicion.

An Igbo proverb says that if a snake pretends to lack venom, little kids will use it in tying firewood.

In an increasingly globalised world, where trust itself is a currency stronger than the dollar, you are shooting yourselves in the foot, by choosing not to criticize the country while still granting it its basic.....dignity.

This is the country of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Of Mallam Aminu Kano. Of Chinua Achebe. Of Wole Soyinka. Of Tai Solarin. Of Chief Gani Fawehinmi. Of Chief Bola Ige. Of Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie.

The country of Segun Odegbami, Nwankwo Kanu, Jay Jay Okocha, Finidi George, Rashidi Yekini, Sunday Oliseh, and Daniel 'the Bull' Amokachi.

The country of Chief Osita Osadebe, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Tuface Idibia, Wizkid, Tekno, Yemi Alade, among hundreds of other world class luminaries that have stood up and shown the world our huge potential .

A country of luminaries. HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A SHITHOLE?


We are a developing country, like 80% of the world's nations. Our problem is that due to our colonial history, whenever we travel abroad we go to the UK, USA, or Western Europe. These countries make up less than 15% of the world population. But for most of us, when describing what happens ''abroad'', we are usually referring to those countries.

We rarely travel to places like Nepal, Cambodia, Senegal, Bangladesh, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Guinea, Eritrea, Colombia, Uganda, Burma, Afghanistan, Mali, Pakistan etc, which is where the majority of the world lives. For most of us, these countries might as well not exist. We never talk about them.

If we shed our colonial complex that tells us that ''abroad'' only means London and New York, and started to really tour the world and see it as it is, even see that things like power outages are VERY COMMON IN MOST COUNTRIES, that corruption is the norm in most countries, that inefficiency, nepotism, crime etc are not unique to Nigeria, then we might start to hate our own country a little less.

Yotuba demon. Always scared of the truth about the zoo.

Even when hausa fulani have reduced you people to slaves.

You do not need Trump to tell you that the zoo is a shithole.

IslamicRebel:


Yotuba demon. Always scared of the truth about the zoo.

Even when hausa fulani have reduced you people to slaves.

You do not need Trump to tell you that the zoo is a shithole.

This thread is not for uncouth, thuggish imbeciles. Kindly face the door.

FRANNN:
That's what you really believe

What a moronic thing to say. Every man and his dog knows Nigeria is a developing country.

Your problem is that you cannot understand how one can acknowledge the country's problems without insulting/denigrating it.

Your problem is that you think it is something to be ashamed of, to be a developing nation.

That again, is because of your colonial conditioning, your lack of education in the socio/poitical evolution of nations, and in development economics, which makes you conclude that any place not on the industrialised level of France and Germany is a ''shithole''. A ''failed country''

You need to cure yourself of that mentality.

The jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra are the problem of the Igbo's,

I will soon deport they to lagoon because river Niger and Benue will not contain them.

Rossikki:
Trump NEVER CALLED NIGERIA A ''Shithole''.

In a private meeting with his officials, he referred to ''African countries in general'' plus Haiti, as ''shithole countries'', asking why the US was allowing people from those countries into the US. He stated that he preferred ''immigrants from Norway''. The whole incident caused a media storm in the US, with charges of racism aimed at the US dictator.

The way Nigerians somehow used this racist's utterances which had NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THEM, AND DID NOT REFER TO THEM AT ALL, and started to beat up on themselves with it, claiming he called NIGERIA a "shithole" is really shameful and tragic.

Some of you must really have another country somewhere, to be so eagerly spitting on your current one.

Some of you need to realise that when you call Nigeria a ''shithole'', it is your mother's house you are calling a ''shithole''.

Many of you keep thinking you are somehow separate from the country you insult and denigrate each day before the whole world.

But the world doesn't see it that way. AT ALL.

The more you denigrate your country online, the worse you and your children will be treated by foreigners, and by the rest of the world. Guaranteed. And the more you will be hated and discriminated against, and treated with suspicion.

An Igbo proverb says that if a snake pretends to lack venom, little kids will use it in tying firewood.

In an increasingly globalised world, where trust itself is a currency stronger than the dollar, you are shooting yourselves in the foot, by choosing not to criticize the country while still granting it its basic.....dignity.

This is the country of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Of Mallam Aminu Kano. Of Chinua Achebe. Of Wole Soyinka. Of Tai Solarin. Of Chief Gani Fawehinmi. Of Chief Bola Ige. Of Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie.

The country of Segun Odegbami, Nwankwo Kanu, Jay Jay Okocha, Finidi George, Rashidi Yekini, Sunday Oliseh, and Daniel 'the Bull' Amokachi.

The country of Chief Osita Osadebe, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Tuface Idibia, Wizkid, Tekno, Yemi Alade, among hundreds of other world class luminaries that have stood up and shown the world our huge potential .

A country of luminaries. HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A SHITHOLE?


We are a developing country, like 80% of the world's nations. Our problem is that due to our colonial history, whenever we travel abroad we go to the UK, USA, or Western Europe. These countries make up less than 15% of the world population. But for most of us, when describing what happens ''abroad'', we are usually referring to those countries.

We rarely travel to places like Nepal, Cambodia, Senegal, Bangladesh, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Guinea, Eritrea, Colombia, Uganda, Burma, Afghanistan, Mali, Pakistan etc, which is where the majority of the world lives. For most of us, these countries might as well not exist. We never talk about them.

If we shed our colonial complex that tells us that ''abroad'' only means London and New York, and started to really tour the world and see it as it is, even see that things like power outages are VERY COMMON IN MOST COUNTRIES, that corruption is the norm in most countries, that inefficiency, nepotism, crime etc are not unique to Nigeria, then we might start to hate our own country a little less.

your people are No 1 enemy of Nigeria. They feel so happy and excited when people from kenya, Ghana, South Africa etc say any thing negative about Nigeria. in fact you become there best friend. They even refer to Nigeria as a Zoo. so this message is for your people.

meolaniyi:
your people are No 1 enemy of Nigeria. They feel so happy and excited when people from kenya, Ghana, South Africa etc say any thing negative about Nigeria. in fact you become there best friend. They even refer to Nigeria as a Zoo. so this message is for your people.

I was actually addressing all Nigerians who like to use the s...hole term, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds.

Rossikki:


I was actually addressing all Nigerians who like to use the s...hole term, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds.

research and find out. they are the only people that address nigeria as a shithole country. they will tell you the zoo must fall

meolaniyi:
research and find out. they are the only people that address nigeria as a shithole country.

There is no way you can tell that. Are you basing your research on named monikers?

IslamicRebel:


Yotuba demon. Always scared of the truth about the zoo.

Even when hausa fulani have reduced you people to slaves.

You do not need Trump to tell you that the zoo is a shithole.

Even though I didn't agree with the op, but you sounded stupid. Talking of slavery, everyone one knows that you igbos are slaves in the nation. Slave to shagari a northerner, slave to tofa a northerner, slave to obj a Yoruba. No how much you people can shout on top your voice that can erase your slavery. You can only shout, you can't erase the slavery. Eru ni eru o ma Jew. Iran eru niyin.

Mr op, Nigeria is a shithole, no doubt about it.

Rossikki:


What a moronic thing to say. Every man and his dog knows Nigeria is a developing country.

Your problem is that you cannot understand how one can acknowledge the country's problems without insulting/denigrating it.

Your problem is that you think it is something to be ashamed of, to be a developing nation.

That again, is because of your colonial conditioning, your lack of education in the socio/poitical evolution of nations, and in development economics, which makes you conclude that any place not on the industrialised level of France and Germany is a ''shithole''. A ''failed country''

You need to cure yourself of that mentality.

Nah, I don't need to "cure" myself of that mentality. That mentality is what every reasonable citizen should have in order to work on developing the "shithole".

FRANNN:
Nah, I don't need to "cure" myself of that mentality. That mentality is what every reasonable citizen should have in order to work on developing the "shithole".

How can you ''develop the shithole'' when you've turned off the rest of the world with your self-declared shithole status?

Who wants to do business with a shithole country? Or anyone from such a country?

If you were some Swedish investor who kept reading on social media, posts by Nigerians dismissing their own country as a shithole, would you accept a business proposal from a Nigerian as opposed to say, a Zambian or South African, assuming all the proposals had equal merit?

Of course you would never. So you are shooting yourselves in the foot by denigrating your own country, especially online. Who do you think is being hurt by this? Certainly not our politicians.

Nigeria is a Shithole country


No need denying the obvious

Sharpshooota:
Nigeria is a Shithole country


No need denying the obvious

Another Biafran failure. You must be referring to the sticks and catapaults Ojukwu gave you to fight with a few decades back. Brainless dunce.

Strikethem:
Even though I didn't agree with the op, but you sounded stupid. Talking of slavery, everyone one knows that you igbos are slaves in the nation. Slave to shagari a northerner, slave to tofa a northerner, slave to obj a Yoruba. No how much you people can shout on top your voice that can erase your slavery. You can only shout, you can't erase the slavery. Eru ni eru o ma Jew. Iran eru niyin.

Mr op, Nigeria is a shithole, no doubt about it.

lets tell ourselves the truth. what igbos hate they dont pretend. our people are selling us and one person is taken what belongs to yoruba nation and handing over to the north and we think all is well. everything he is doing is for his personal interest. I pray we dont regret all these.

Rossikki:


Another Biafran failure. You must be referring to the sticks and catapaults Ojukwu gave you to fight with a few decades back. Brainless dunce.

I'm sure you are glaring at the lagoon now....

Jump fast

@op, you need to acknowledge that even before trump made that most derogatory cliche, some people have always been shit headed, so oblige the shit headed to have their own abode.

Only shit headed people affirmed themselves as being in a shit hole situation as a country and as in character.

God bless Nigeria.

Rossikki:


Another Biafran failure. You must be referring to the sticks and catapaults Ojukwu gave you to fight with a few decades back. Brainless dunce.

this Kind of Statement Reminds Of ilorin. and That's Why I Will Be Proud of My Ancestors. My Ancestors Fought Against more Than 120 ethnic Groups With catapault For 3years.

meolaniyi:
lets tell ourselves the truth. what igbos hate they dont pretend. our people are selling us and one person is taken what belongs to yoruba nation and handing over to the north and we think all is well. everything he is doing is for his personal interest. I pray we dont regret all these.

What we hate, we hate it. Let me tell you, I am not for buhari or whatever. Yoruba voted Jonathan, no one sold us then. It is when Yoruba voted buhari they are selling Yoruba, but when igbo voted shagari, tofa, who was selling them then? How much did they sold you. You need to tell yourself the truth. Look at voting pattern in the country and tell us which southern tribe voted Fulani man into power the most. No be so zik do with balewa against awolowo.

Strikethem:
Even though I didn't agree with the op, but you sounded stupid. Talking of slavery, everyone one knows that you igbos are slaves in the nation. Slave to shagari a northerner, slave to tofa a northerner, slave to obj a Yoruba. No how much you people can shout on top your voice that can erase your slavery. You can only shout, you can't erase the slavery. Eru ni eru o ma Jew. Iran eru niyin.

Mr op, Nigeria is a shithole, no doubt about it.

Define the term shithole country? What exactly is it?

Please employ your intellect here. Don't just type some spiteful one-liner.

Rossikki:


What a moronic thing to say. Every man and his dog knows Nigeria is a developing country.

Your problem is that you cannot understand how one can acknowledge the country's problems without insulting/denigrating it.

Your problem is that you think it is something to be ashamed of, to be a developing nation.

That again, is because of your colonial conditioning, your lack of education in the socio/poitical evolution of nations, and in development economics, which makes you conclude that any place not on the industrialised level of France and Germany is a ''shithole''. A ''failed country''

You need to cure yourself of that mentality.

I don't think a lot of Nigerians actually realize that these so called "First World" nations were also once "Third World". some of these nations went through phases of development and industrialization that spanned hundreds of years to become what they are today. And, although it can be argued that we have a lot more to work with now in contrast to what was obtainable then, is no justification for our impatience.
I believe that instead of deriving a sick form of joy from putting down the nation for being what it is presently, which ironically is as as a result of our collective actions and inactions, we must be willing to acknowledge the simple fact that although there are miles ahead of us as a nation, only us can get us there.

Rossikki:


Define the term shithole country? What exactly is it?

Please employ your intellect here. Don't just type some spiteful one-liner.

Everything about Nigeria makes it shithole. Seems SARS never slapped you before, go out and see how Nigeria sorundings are, very dirty n unkept. Here, if your father is not influential, you are hopeless. Many more I can tell you.

The truth is nigeria is not shithole.










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A pothole

Rossikki:
Trump NEVER CALLED NIGERIA A ''Shithole''.

In a private meeting with his officials, he referred to ''African countries in general'' plus Haiti, as ''shithole countries'', asking why the US was allowing people from those countries into the US. He stated that he preferred ''immigrants from Norway''. The whole incident caused a media storm in the US, with charges of racism aimed at the US dictator.

The way Nigerians somehow used this racist's utterances which had NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THEM, AND DID NOT REFER TO THEM AT ALL, and started to beat up on themselves with it, claiming he called NIGERIA a "shithole" is really shameful and tragic.

Some of you must really have another country somewhere, to be so eagerly spitting on your current one.

Some of you need to realise that when you call Nigeria a ''shithole'', it is your mother's house you are calling a ''shithole''.

Many of you keep thinking you are somehow separate from the country you insult and denigrate each day before the whole world.

But the world doesn't see it that way. AT ALL.

The more you denigrate your country online, the worse you and your children will be treated by foreigners, and by the rest of the world. Guaranteed. And the more you will be hated and discriminated against, and treated with suspicion.

An Igbo proverb says that if a snake pretends to lack venom, little kids will use it to tie firewood.

In an increasingly globalised world, where trust itself is a currency stronger than the dollar, you are shooting yourselves in the foot, by choosing not to criticize the country while still granting it its basic.....dignity.

This is the country of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Of Mallam Aminu Kano. Of Chinua Achebe. Of Wole Soyinka. Of Tai Solarin. Of Chief Gani Fawehinmi. Of Chief Bola Ige. Of Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie.

The country of Segun Odegbami, Nwankwo Kanu, Jay Jay Okocha, Finidi George, Rashidi Yekini, Sunday Oliseh, and Daniel 'the Bull' Amokachi.

The country of Chief Osita Osadebe, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Tuface Idibia, Wizkid, Tekno, Yemi Alade, among hundreds of other world class luminaries that have stood up and shown the world our huge potential .

A country of luminaries. HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A SHITHOLE?


We are a developing country, like 80% of the world's nations. Our problem is that due to our colonial history, whenever we travel abroad we go to the UK, USA, or Western Europe. These countries make up less than 15% of the world population. But for most of us, when describing what happens ''abroad'', we are usually referring to those countries.

We rarely travel to places like Nepal, Cambodia, Senegal, Bangladesh, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Guinea, Eritrea, Colombia, Uganda, Burma, Afghanistan, Mali, Pakistan etc, which is where the majority of the world lives. For most of us, these countries might as well not exist. We never talk about them.

If we shed our colonial complex that tells us that ''abroad'' only means London and New York, and started to really tour the world and see it as it is, maybe even see that things like power outages are VERY COMMON IN MOST COUNTRIES, that corruption is the norm in most countries, that inefficiency, nepotism, crime etc are not unique to Nigeria, then we just might start to hate our own country a little less.

Look, many Nigerians do not feel a sense of belonging to the current Nigeria. If a father treats his children badly, does that mean that the children should love him unconditionally. A father that steals his children's future, unleashes terror on them via the police and does not safeguard them from agressors within and without, signs multilateral deals that destroy s their local businesses, does not provide food security by allowing their farms destroyed, steals the fund for their medical bills and still borrow humongous debts to finance his drinking parties is a father full of shit Trust is earned, so is patriotism.

RoyalPriesthuud:
Look, many Nigerians do not feel a sense of belonging to the current Nigeria. If a father treats his children badly, does that mean that the children should love him unconditionally. A father that steals his children's future, unleashes terror on them via the police and does not safeguard them from aggressors within and without, signs multilateral deals that destroy s their local businesses, does not provide food security by allowing their farms destroyed, steals the fund for their medical bills and still borrow humongous debts to finance his drinking parties is a father full of shit Trust is earned, so is patriotism.

Dude, please spare me all this garbage. You can literally list three quarters of countries on this earth and recite the exact same rhetoric against them as above, and it would apply to them, yet their people do not HATE their nation, and go around calling it a ''shithole''.

Like I said earlier, MANY OF YOU NEED TO TRAVEL AROUND. Not to the US and Europe. But to the rest of the world. The world is NOT a paradise. The majority of people on it are struggling for their daily EVERYTHING. You people are spoiled by your constant exposure to the so called 'First World' where only a tiny, TINY minority of people on this earth live.

Look, for all your complaints about Nigeria, progress HAS been made. You are living a MUCH BETTER LIFE than your forbears. In the 1960s, how many people owned a car in Nigeria? Cars were only for the very rich and highly favoured classes, who made up less than two percent of the population. Majority of our grandparents were too poor to even own a BICYCLE. They walked everywhere, often barefoot. Majority of them were stark illiterates, courtesy of colonial neglect of education. THEY had no choice of emigrating to say Europe or America. Or even Ghana or SA. They had no idea what those places were or what they would do there if they got there. Today, courtesy of the mass education policy of the Nigerian govt which ensured that YOU got educated, you can contemplate the idea of travelling to any country on earth to settle and earn a living. Your illiterate great grandparents would have KILLED to have had such an opportunity. Such a capability.

Electricity? Look, up till about the 1970s, most parts of Nigeria were not even connected to the national grid. This is the same Nigeria that has existed in various forms for over a thousand years. Are you saying all those millions of people who lived and died here without seeing a lightbulb, were all ''in a shithole''? Nope. They never had that attitude. The Benin Empire used palm oil to fuel street lights in Benin City as early as the 1400s. They had underground drainage by virtue of city impluviums they constructed. Their houses ''shone like mirrors'' according to one visitor's account, due to their scrubbing their walls with special chemical herbs. By the 1500s Benin City was rated among the top cities in the world.

The Ife kingdom built pavements on their roads using broken potsherds. You can visit Ife today and still see traces of those pavements.

Why can't our local communities be so proactive today? Everybody sitting around depending on western solutions to problems they can solve, simply by studying their own history and by being creative.

Communications? As recently as the 1990s, majority of Nigerians had no means of communicating beyond travel by foot or public transport. Today you can dip your hand in your pocket and speak to a guy thousands of miles away with no sweat. You can start a business based entirely on your phone.

These are strides your forbears could not even dare to dream about.

I MEAN, I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE. You think you should have the finest and most up-to-date living standards on earth, when you are only less than a generation removed from illiterate, village, peasant populations under colonial brigandage and oppression. You haven't even worked out how to properly govern yourselves. Which is not a surprise, considering you only gained independence half a century ago.

You fail to realise that you MUST go through teething problems involving societal ills - corruption, civil war, mismanagement etc. YOU MUST, or you will never be that successful nation.

Success means overcoming problems.

If there were no problems, there would be no 'success'.

Many Nigerians talk as if they expect the country to have no problems.

They expect success to simply land on their laps.

''Ah there is oil. So the oil money will be shared equitably and all will benefit, and we can all sit down, hold hands and sing Kumbaya'' .

....''Oh wait...That hasn't happened? We are failed. Useless nation. Shithole.''

A highly simplistic approach to issues.

Go and read the history of any sizeable nation moving from underdevelopment to development.

It MUST be replete with teething problems.

What we foolishly see as ''failures''.

Signs that we have ''failed as a nation''.

I shudder at such displays of historical illiteracy.

Go and study Dickensian England. Victorian England. You will be shocked at the level of mass poverty and deprivation right at the same time they were building iconic, expensive landmarks like Wembley, Buckingham Palace, and Trafalgar Square. Child slavery was the norm. People slept 20 to a room in London, Leeds, Manchester etc. Disease was rife. In all this, a tiny aristocracy lived like lords, literally. This went on for over a CENTURY before changes finally began to make an impact.

That is just the UK. We can call examples from China, from Germany, from Russia, where Stalin slaughtered 20 million of his countrymen on the way to creating his communist state. That is like 10 Biafran Wars occurring at the same time in one country. Yet look at these places today. They've come out smiling.

Lesson: We are evolving, and we must be patient with that evolution. Nigeria will most likely not be a developed nation in your lifetime. Accept that fact, and contribute your quota to making it better for this and future generations. That is what God put you here for. Not to grumble and complain and insult the country all day, all night.