10 THINGS NIGERIANS WANT FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT :

By C.C Anaedu

1. EDUCATION; Federal Government MUST make education from Primary to Senior Secondary School Compulsory and free for Nigerians. This is because education is the foundation upon which great nations are built.

2. RESOURCES CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; Federal Government Should hand over Federal Businesses and assets to Regions, This will make every region to be economically powerful, States like Nasarawa, Taraba, Kogi, Ebonyi, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Zamfara Osun, Ekiti etc cannot be poor when they have abundance of natural resources. This will create more jobs for their people and bring healthy competition among other regions and states while Federal government should only Concentrate on Policy, supervision, revenue collection, Defense etc. Resources control and management is expected to drop Federal Government responsibilities such as recurrent expenditures by 50-70 ‰ and yet brings more more revenue for the federal government.

3. ECONOMY AND BUSINESSES; Federal Government has no business in things like running NNPC, NPA, Agriculture, works and housing, Universities, etc these should be handed over to regions or states and run by private sectors, Every region should provide it's own Agriculture, food, housing, rails and roads, Universities, Hospitals for their own people, since they are the one's generating fund from all assets. State Government or Regional Governments will partner with private sector and run those businesses and institutions very well. This will also reduce the rate of racketeering in government institutions. Government has no business doing business or doing trading. Government should set up a private sector that would be doing these. While they supervise and manage policies.

4. REGIONAL POLICE; Federal Government should allow regions or states to have its own police for proper grassroots policing and help to curb crimes against unknown intruders like terrorist and armed herders.

5. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES ; Federal Government should concentrate on Foreign affairs, immigration, customs and excise, Defense, Department of Security service, Policy making. This will make Federal Government not to be involved in running businesses, yet making revenue in Billions of dollars per annum. People must be employed to generate profit for government. There are several Federal Government institutions or parastatals that have thousands employed yet not making any revenue for the Government. For instance it was quoted that Nigeria Railway Cooperation has over 10,000 workers, how is that institution generating in revenue? Government priority is to supervise it's institutions and it's policies and make sure that things are done well.

6. AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION; Every region should have its own Bank and Industry and Bank of Agriculture where people or firms with fantastic idea will access loans and grants with minimal interest to invest in the economy. This will help build up the Agricultural sectors in the regions, Rice, Cassava, palm oil and fruits in the east, Yam, and fruits in the middle belt, Cereals, tomatoes, onions, cotton in the North west, Cocoa and cereals in the west. Every region would be food sufficient. Farming is done at rural areas and State Government are closer to these farmers than Federal government. When regions become hub of various massive Agricultural production and Industrial development, this will bring rapid drop in poverty and unemployment as millions will be gainfully employed in their regions.

7. INFRASTRUCTURES; Every region will have its own refineries, Electric power plants, agencies and industrialization based on what they have, this will balance the equilibrium in the economy, reduce poverty and unemployment in all the zones. This will create REGIONAL ECONOMIES. The era of someone graduating in Maidugari and travel to Lagos to be employed will stop. This is because there will be enough economic activities, industrialization, manufacturing in every zone. Every region is so rich in natural resources that when you set up massive industrialization to process the natural resources into products, this can create ten's of millions of jobs across the regions. Tourism should be a state program as every States will develop all their tourist locations to world class in other to attract tourists across the world.

8. FEDERAL CHARACTER /NEPOTISM; Federal Government, should make sure that quota system is scrapped because it is dragging National development backwards. Infact there won't be any need for quota system because where the majority of activities and employment is, would be in the zones, regions or states.

9. HEALTH; Federal Government should partner with zones or regions to provide World class hospitals in virtually all the field of medicine and possibly privatise it to the best hand. This will make very good health care services available for all and equally attract foreigners who will come for medical treatment. Health tourism can generate Billions of dollars per annum.

10.RELIGION; Federal Government must make sure that there will be freedom of worship and Government should not take sides or make donations to Religious organizations and Government should provide rules to curb religious proliferation, religious madness, rascality and fundamentalist in society, Religion should make people better behaved and not the other way around.

I quite agree.

The main reason we are backward in this part of the world is not because we are black, but simply because we are blind. Majority of Nigerian are living in a thick ignorance, simply because the political class has failed to do what they are supposed to do.

I don't need anything from buhari govt...

He should just go back to his father's house.

It is not about Buhari, Nigerians with good conscience should rise up and demand for all those things that will bring equity, fairness, equilibrium, good governance. As a matter of fact, whoever that is interested in leading Nigeria will see these as what Nigerians are demanding for.

very nice write up. i concur!

the youth should demand this from the govt.

Hello Triville, The major problem Nigerians are facing today is unenlightenment, if majority of Nigerian are enlightened, revolution will be easier, they will make the right demand from their leaders. But it is a pity that so many youths instead of calling these political folks to question, they have joined them in their rot, corruption and graft destroying the systems and structures of Government.