kikero:


Because you can afford it.

You are a millionaire. If you give 20 Nigerians here 20000 naira you would have done a world of good.

(I'm serious. There are many people here crying every day).

Nigerians deserve whatever they get and I'm serious about it. I rather buy 400 000 naira fuel for my car than to waste that on ungrateful people

Why have we Nigerians become so lazy? Even in the villages, young people refuse to go to the farms. My take is, at least feed yourself before begging for money. Nigeria is the largest group of people that don't contribute anything to the world's food basket. "Give a man a fish, you'll feed him for one day. Teach him to fish, and you'll feed him forever". Let's all do some food production even if it means planting pepper, tomato and vegetables around the compound.

GOFRONT:
Upon all our crude Oil and our Money.........What a tragedy..

America also has crude oil but that does not stop them from working in all different ways to make their country better for lazy bone Nigerians to be their sidekicks.

There are a lot of factors;

+ Corruption
+ Bad governance
+ Lavish spending habit (without saving)
+ Lack of education
+ Minimal innovation
+ Improper investment... etc.

Xisnin:
Because there have been no meaningful intervention or policy to fight poverty.

Sharing money is not a sound economic policy.
If Nigeria's total population were less than 10 million,
sharing money would have masked the extreme poverty in the land.

Exactly.

Countries like Saudi Arabia and Libya(under Ghaddafi) operated by that policy. They are poor countries which appear rich because of high oil incomes and low populations.

If Saudi was 200-300million people in size, they would have been as broke as we are.

The problem with Nigeria is that Nigerians expect government to share money for them. Because...we are poor. The truth is, if we had invested the money we earned since independence in improving our productive capacity ie on power, rail transport, technical education...we might have been in a better place by now. Many of these our big men would have even been richer now

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seguno2:


Is the president responsible for the dirty gutter and bad roads directly in front of your buildings?
Maybe he was right to call everyone lazy

It is the responsibility of the government to develop sustainable infrastructures and maintain as people pay tax and levies or fees. How can a citizen pay all that and government will fail in enforcement and regulation.

[[s]quote author=Omooba77 post=88754337]By Abimbola Adelakun



https://punchng.com/why-are-nigerians-still-so-poor/[/quote][/s]

Another irrational trash from this idiotic fool.

Explosive population growth ,corrupt and incompetent governments at federal and States level

Because the average Nigerian is greedy, selfish and corrupt.

SLAP44:
I think it's because we elected someone who should have been enjoying his old age and retirement in a reputable old people's home with the vain hope that he will save our country.

Nigerians are poor cos they are bane of their own progress. Defending the indefensible, acknowledging the abominable and upholding lies to themselves. If not, isn't it blatant that the north are ripping us off using fallacies of numbers and landsizes while they are the most unproductive sects in the entire nation added to their fanaticism in religion and tribal sentiments and yet, and yet some morons in the south will still oblige cos the peanuts that will accrue to them, yet they are the ones funding the entire nation.

because huge amount of revenue that is to be used for provision of essential and infrastructures that will have a direct impact on Nigerians are directed to politicians in the name of payment and useless allowances

Nigerians are still so poor because we are not productive, simple!
May God help us �

Becaurse The Snake And Rat Has Been Swallowing Our Money,

They spend most of their days on facebook n nairaland

No matter how much/little he cared enough for his closest allies to see “his other side,” and how much important it was to him to show select people that he was no “monster,” the fact remains that he worked in the upper echelons of one of the most regressive and most repressive governments in Nigerian history.

Nothing Abba Kyari was to his family and friends can redeem what he ultimately embodied: lousy governance, blind leadership, and political power abused by self-serving individuals.

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What an end to a brilliant article. Well spoken.

What I take from this:
No matter the policies or support to friend, what counts is the effect on the common man. If it is not felt by the common man, it makes no sense.

SLAP44:
I think it's because we elected someone who should have been enjoying his old age and retirement in a reputable old people's home with the vain hope that he will save our country.

Before you elected him, how was your country doing?

kikero:


Exactly.

Countries like Saudi Arabia and Libya(under Ghaddafi) operated by that policy. They are poor countries which appear rich because of high oil incomes and low populations.

If Saudi was 200-300million people in size, they would have been as broke as we are.

The problem with Nigeria is that Nigerians expect government to share money for them. Because...we are poor. The truth is, if we had invested the money we earned since independence in improving our productive capacity ie on power, rail transport, technical education...we might have been in a better place by now. Many of these our big men would have even been richer now

The thought of sharing money is because the government have failed in its responsibility. Who will do the investment, it's still government. They also failed in the human development index. Imagine the billions individuals have stolen as a reason for money sharing.

SeverusSnape:
It's now a known fact that the government of the day is a scam led by the most mendacious scammer in the history of Nigeria.

Bubu the mumu.

And the old govt was a transparent one abi..

Omooba77:
By Abimbola Adelakun



https://punchng.com/why-are-nigerians-still-so-poor/

it's our mentality, leaders and followers alike

How did we jump from Hunger to Abba Kyari?








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Because the wealth meant for everyone has been cornered for the elites alone.

Nigeria should never has existed beyond the 100 years amalgamation treaty



Nigerians wants to defend Nigeria even when they are dying because they were born to understand that a white man gave them the name

A Nigerian earns little spend much

He pays for his electricity and still buy fuel for his generator

He pay taxes (VAT) AND still pay agberos to use the bad road

He buys the water he drinks, the one he cooks with and the one he baths and fulshes the toilet with.

The cost of house rent is high(75% Nigeria's 5months salary can't cover their house rent

Everything is wrong with Nigeria


Nigeria is a play play country

ONLY A FOOL SUPPORTS HER EXISTENCE

It's simply because we've always had leaders who are more concerned about 'taking away' from a dilapidating entity as Nigeria than building it.

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Poshriel:
One can only be poor if he or she chooses to be..

Away from that pls change the topic to why is Nigeria poor... That way you have excluded me from the figure

you look stunning

Because they find it difficult to take risks

gfon:
you look stunning

I am very single.. But serious minded too..

Patode:
Why have we Nigerians become so lazy? Even in the villages, young people refuse to go to the farms. My take is, at least feed yourself before begging for money. Nigeria is the largest group of people that don't contribute anything to the world's food basket. "Give a man a fish, you'll feed him for one day. Teach him to fish, and you'll feed him forever". Let's all do some food production even if it means planting pepper, tomato and vegetables around the compound.

Simply because our governments has failed over time. No investment in Nigerians over time, no process development. No structure, high interest rates, lack of credits. Crude policy management. Multiple taxation simply because government can't keep simple checks. Just like parents are living sample for their children, same is government to the citizens

koolguy88:
Nigerians are still so poor because we are not productive, simple!
May God help us �

Not productive....
But to buy phone, snap picture on Instagram and argue morning till night about Megapixels, we are expert at that one O