SenecaTheYonger:


Nigerians are very criminally inclined. They ar the most criminal race to ever exist. It has nothing to do with government not providing. Did you know Singapore was once a worse shiithole than Nigeria ever was? But they're a first world country today. Did u ever hear about them going to other country to push drug? Steal? NO. Even if Jesus was rulling, you will still have a reason to blame him because it's your innate nature, it's built into your core DNA, just like you have to bend down to shiit. YOU will blame everything in this world before you blame yourself. I'm even suprise you haven't mentioned white people.

naijaseeker:

I actually agree with you. Nigeria really has a lot of dumb people. Nothing is as dumb as someone who really do not know what his problem is.
Maybe you should blame yourself but clearly, I do not blame myself. I ask myself why should somebody whose educational certification rules over professors. I ask myself why should my CJN have a mediocre certificate why there are many exceptional lawyers jobless. I ask myself why should someone score 2 in an exam get admission but another 200 and is not admitted.



I ask myself all these questions and I realise that there are forces responsible for it, However, someone who is very dumb refuses to do carry out a root cause analysis and simply wants to blame me. My dear, if you are dumb, I am not.

I have carried out my analysis and I know what is wrong with Nigeria and I offer suggestions, People who are not dumb are currently pushing for restructuring because they are aware that the country was structured to bring assets to the centre where whoever is in charge will take it. Before it was the colonial powers, now it is the political elite in cohort with the western world.

Of course, dumb Nigerians lack the patience nor capacity for analysis. It is simpler for their shallow reasoning capacity to simply blame every Nigerian. Therefore, they cannot task themselves on what to do to tackle this political elite and western powers.

My dear, if you are dumb, I am not. The task before every Nigerian now is to fight for a restructuring of the Nigerian system. We are not dumb, we are in a situation and we need to fight it

Mayeldah:
Politically, Nigerians are the dumbest set of people in the world. They don't know their rights to good governance, all they do is support some stupid old men who have ruled Nigeria before without any meaningful impact. 5 Years gone Buhari is still blaming everyone but himself, yet he has no clear cut vision to better the lots of this Country. Do we even have long term vision for this Country just like China and Dubai does for their Nation?

pocohantas:
What Nigerians call smartness, would most times turn out to be total disresgard for the next person, basic etiquette, moral values, laws or rules and regulations.

A Nigerian will drive one way, get to the front- return to the correct lane and feel like a sharp guy.

A Nigerian will jump the queue, luckily they get attended to by whoever after dropping N200. They come back to you that is standing on the queue like a sane human being and tell you that you are not STREET SMART. So, you fit sleep here today o...Truly you might sleep there.


Na this kind smartness we dey exhibit most times. Majority of us are guilty of one or more. Not our fault sha, it is the kind of smartness you need to survive in a third world country, where everything-including the government is working against you.

The people that are BOOK SMART (we call them efiko and even demonise them), we stereotype them as clumsy and timid- NOT STREET SMART. The ones going about their businesses jejely are not left out from the above stereotype.

That is why when we go to countries where normal humans are, we complain it is slow, boring...etc. We have to relearn to live, because we have only been existing/surviving in the jungle we hopped on the plane from.

Saintp:


Bros with all due respect you don't get it.

When we say Nigerians are dumb or not smart, it does not mean that all Nigerians are dumb. What it means is that majority that carries the vote are not smart. You could be in the outnumbered 10% of the population that are smart but does not change anything as far as classification is concerned.

You confirmed what we are still saying when you talked about restructuring. How is it going happen when the people are dumb? Is the will of say 10% of the smart people going to overcome the will of 90% of the dumb people? This is the summary of the whole talk

DexterousOne:

Gadaffi himself destroyed Libya
If indeed it was western power that really wanted him out
You really think he will stay 42 years?

He created the conditions that led to his ousting and death like a chicken (I don't feel sorry for him )

DexterousOne:


You are the ones who really don't know

Foreign powers KNOW the thinking of black man and use it against us....

Lumumba and Sankara were killed by their best friends because they are power drunk and have no sense of long term

There are so many black who will betray their countries outright for a piece of porridge
Foreign powers only exploit that

Have you heard of a country called Bhutan?
They are living in their own, nothing concern then with wealth accumulation and all that

Hence foreign interests do not penetrate

But many fvcked up Africans will even seek foreign intervention to push out the govt so he will replace them and then sell his country

Look at what Tejan Kabbah did to Sierra Leone and Machar to south Sudan

It's very easy to blame others (Typical black man fashion)
But we need to look ourselves in the mirror

And besides development is not zero sum as many Africans think

We can develop policies that will be win -win for everyone

But Africans don't think or reason long term

djon78:



If you are not dumb, then do something about it. Instead of coming online to rant.
The power that control Africa are much stronger than her, its not just Nigeria. And sadly Africans do not have the right strategy to combat these forces.
Moreover ignorance, non enlightenment, poor or no value for education has fueled it. When I talk of education, its not just peddling certificate, because we have many carrying such with no value added. Rather its more of critical thinking, outside the box thinking. Coupled with a leadership that's exact reflection of the people being ruled. So its a big complex problem that can be solved but requires a higher level of thinking.

Odogu9195:
You missed out the part where jealousy and wickedness won’t allow us. Nigeria is a country where everyone is working really hard to make sure nothing works for anyone but themselves. Not just Nigeria, but Africa as a whole. A black man lacks the will to rule! It’s facts. One time a police man seized a bike mans bike due to 50 naira. Bike man was literally crying and begging he doesn’t have money, Oga even removed and emptied his cloths yet police man refused, and for what 50 naira?? It’s that the fault of the government as we all tend to blame the government for everything! NO THIS IS A TYPICAL BLACK MAN WITHOUT ANY FORM OF AUTHORITY ASIDE FROM CARRYING A GUN AND BEEN PART OF A FAILED SYSTEM CALLED THE NIGERIAN POLICE FOR, being really WICKED and unreasonable to his fellow Nigerian. Please TELL ME, how can we grow as a country with looking out for each other??

Fallenhunter:


Don't compare all-black countries to Nigeria. Seychelles, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia etc have had great leaders that developed the countries and made them on par with European countries with peoples rights respected and good business practices. Even Rwanda is quickly becoming one of the best countries. Nigeria lacks people that care and leaders that wish to genuinely improve it.

Nanatrendy:
I am not a nigerian but the reason why nigeria and other African countries are not developed is because we are divided within ourselves and the west is playing Africans like chess. An example is ivory coast and ghana together we produce 60% of the world's cocoa but because we are competing against ourselves the west determine the price they will pay for our cocoa they give the farmers peanuts and make billions in the west, now imagine if both countries were sitting down together decided to sell refined cocoa and bargain as a unit we would be calling the shots in chocolate production. Also imagine if all african countries decided to shut our borders to foriegn products and decided if the west do not set up factories here their products will not be sold on our markets ,imagine the number of jobs it will create and the number of opportunities we will get. The thing is no matter how hard any african country tries on its own they wouldn't get far because the west are united in maintaining africa as it's market , now china too is taking advantage of us. Until Africans plan as one unit we would not get anywhere.

Fallenhunter:


That is not smart, shutting borders isn't the solution. What would be smart is if Ivory coast, Ghana etc sat together and set up chocolate manufacturing facilities. Milk, coca, sugar are all available in West Africa. We make the chocolate and then sell it to the west and to other parts of the world. We create our brand and export the finished chocolate and thus own the chocolate industry altogether. That's true intelligence.

Suspectzero:
Never ever thought i would find a thread with so many like-minded people. Nigeria is a shit hole. But the problem is not just Nigeria and its people per se, It's the problem of the Black man. There is something fundamentally wrong with the black man. He is backwards and animalistic. Barely evolved.

Like people before me noted, this is not self hatred. I am a black man but i choose not to be blind to what reality has shown me. There is not a single developed black Nation in the whole of this planet. Not One.

There is no hope for Nigeria, i just don't see it anywhere. Thus, like my fellow like minded people here, we are soon emigrating out to saner environments whereby we can adopt and continue to progress with the progressive cultures out there.

naijaseeker:


Basic issue for most African countries is nation-building. Most Africans do not feel any strong allegiance to their country but to historic nationality. The West purposefully structured it so and pressed African leaders to accept colonial boundaries in 1963. Cohesion and cooperation comes from mutual respect and acceptance. We need to redraw and redesign our boundaries ourselves

Fallenhunter:


There are developed black nations. Seychelles, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia (to an extent) etc. Rwanda is rapidly developing and Ethiopia is moving in the right direction. Many Caribbean countries are well developed. What is true for Nigeria and some of the 'loser' black countries isn't true for all of Africa.

Suspectzero:


Sorry but all those Countries you listed are not developed nations. You could term them developing but they are not developed. By Nigeria's standard they might seem developed, but by Western Standards, they are not.

The "developed Caribbean Countries"are not of the black race. The ones that are of the Black race are Jamaica and Haiti and those places are shit holes as well. Just as bad as the ones in Africa.

Saintp:


I will not be part of people who throw blame to others or issues in the past for our present problems. The past is the past, how can u change it? To solve any problem in any aspect of life, you need to acknowledge there is a problem, own the problem totally which will now give you the needed energy to solve it irrespective of who caused it
As a people we don't fully acknowledge the problem not to talk of owning it instead we stylishly downplay the problem and put the blame on someone else.
The world is a dog eat dog world. Anyone who wants to be exploited will be exploited, it is not a new thing. Even in Nigeria today, people are exploiting others too. The west has exploited their own, guess what? China is now coming to exploit the same continent. In the next 60 years, the problem will no longer be the west but China this China that. Will I blame them? Never! Because people have refused to acknowledge the problem, own the problem and solve it by themselves. Let us keep blaming western powers and probably wait till we are 200 years to get the basic things right since 60 years is not enough.

Fallenhunter:


Botswana and Seychelles are pretty developed but okay by western standards they aren't developed. They are rapidly developing though with high GDP growth rates, good human rights records and rapidly improving infrastructure. Botswana in particular is quite developed and Ina few more years will be at European levels of development.

Jamaica and Haiti aren't the only black Caribbean islands but even if we consider only Africa nations that are moving in the right direction like Botswana, Rwanda even Ethiopia (although it has a long way to go) show that African nations can progress and become great.

Reference:
The truth is that ordinarily blacks are not up there when it comes to intellect. A lot of indicies point to that fact such as poverty, life expectancy, etc but my big one that ultimately proves blacks are not intellectually competitive, is venture, exploration and exploitation. We are at the absolute bottom of the tree and it is no surprise we were taken in slavery in mass numbers (till today), but taking no one, we were colonised in mass, colonising no one, till date we have been exploited by all (even by nations on the same standing just a few decades ago), exploiting none in return.

This can only be about a race that is not as mentally competent, a race that is incapable of organising itself into viable groupings, effective societies, with a common, positive purpose. Some say this has biblical origins but when you consider that amongst black nations, the more you have socities bearing dissimilar tongues, the more discordant, inhibited and ultimately dispondent such societies are such as Nigeria then there may be a point there.

Thus in a nutshell Nigeria is the poster child of what is wrong with the black race because we have the largest concentration of black 'models' in the world, the largest concentration of 'not so brilliant folks' on earth. Nigeria is more complex than the whole African continent and more. Can Africa ever come together as one....Nigeria is more complex than that.

The result speaks for itself.

Acidosis:


It's one of those lies we tell ourselves Others include;

1. Nigerians believe we've the best footballers in the world (NFF is just yet to come up with a great team, since 1960)

2. Best and strongest army in the world (I laugh in nuclear powers )

3. The worst set is those that see Nigeria as the richest country in the world (haq haq haq )

Nigeria no even follow the list of 20 richest natural resource countries in the world

Majority are yet to unlearn some of the lies they learnt from Geography and Social study teachers.

DexterousOne:


Deng Xiaoping opened China

lexy2014:


I no. I was only responding to d following contradictions made by d gentleman:

"Maa zedond did not make china what is it today, what he did was to unify china and create a communist state, during his rule, china was a poor country.

the opening of china made china rich."

I was hoping he would clarify it himself

Blackvic1:
you just said it all ,this is the same thing I was trying to explain to someone that Nigeria isn’t smart with have criminal mindset those are two different things a failure keeps blaming everybody else but himself ....most of this countries where once’s a dump site like you said Singapore it was once a shithole , dubai, Qatar, a lot of other counties even Rwanda and Ethiopia they never went into crime even the so called Nigerians that travel out of the country where there are opportunities which excuse will they give for pushing drugs and engaging into a lot of other crimes even cult clashes .... we are just not smart people at all