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Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by cjrane: 10:42pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
oluwadabira222:Partially true. We truly don't know Nigeria's population to be certain. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:44pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
thebosstrevor1:He wanted Burkhina Faso to be self suffient in agriculture and manfacturing and that is why he was taken out. Tried all the corrupt leaders in public courts. Thomas Sankara was a visonary like current Rwanda President Paul Kagame.
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Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 10:47pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
thebosstrevor1: What ''rest schools''? Literacy rate was 5% at independence. Today it is 75% courtesy of massive investment in public education by black rulers after independence. There were only a tiny handful of schools built before independence. Majority of Nigerians were stark illiterates in 1960. That is why most of our grandparents were illiterates, or can't you use your brain? Mumu. Who university of ibadan. One university in 63 years colonial rule is NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT, or are you a dunce? Goodluck Jonathan built 12 universities in 4 years. Who built the railway tracks? They built two narrow gauge tracks from north to the south for the SOLE PURPOSE of transporting our natural resources to the sea for export. The export proceeds were kept firmly in London. They built the railway for themselves NOT FOR YOU. Who built all the government infrastructures What ''infrastructures''?? Name them! ... Kai, our people no get sense sha. Look around you today. Which infrastructure can you see anywhere that you can say the British built? NOTHING. ALL THE FLYOVERS, ROADS, BRIDGES, AIRPORTS, SEAPORTS, UNIVERSITIES, ESTATES, BANKS, SKYSCRAPERS SHOPPING MALLS, STADIUMS, POWER PLANTS, REFINERIES ETC were all built by black Nigerian leaders after independence. Yet some slave minded dullards think the colonialists ''built infrastructures''. Who did this to us? 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:47pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Rossnitti:Nigerians will have preferred the South Africa leadership that developed the country to European standards and handed power over in the 80's or 90's. Nigerian leaders turned out worse that the colonial masters, looted the country blind, cornered all the oil blocks and committed grievous human rights abuses. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:51pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy: You keep mentioning leaders that have a good PR machine. I have been to Rwanda before and it is a shit hole. Nigeria is 100% developed than that country. As for sankara, if he was visionary as you claim, how come he laid no foundation, did he rule for almost 4 years. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by oluwadabira222(m): 10:52pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
cjrane:you are right to some extent but nigeria can never be less than 180 million! |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Raalsalghul: 10:52pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Op, tell us something new, this one na old news. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:54pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
thebosstrevor1:Nigeria is not developed by any means. Can you boast of 24 hour electricity,portable water,sewage treatment plant, public schools,security,public transportation,good roads,hospitals? You are your own government in a country ruled by the mafia, that only care about looting public funds. 1 Like
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Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:54pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Rossnitti: You don't know anything about history, you keep writing about post independence. This one built this and that. .before independence, every infrastructures from schools to heathcare to roads and banks wrre all built by the British, where do you think, the leaders got the idea from. Answer the question Who built the railway systems Who built university of ibadan Who built kings and queens college and other former elite secondary schools. Who built first bank The Central bank Primary healthcare systems The road networks The military The police The prisons Civil services Fire departments Who built all these? Nigeria literacy rate is 63% not 75% 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 10:55pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy: DONKEY STILL TALKING RUBBISH LIKE A ROBOT THEY DID JUJU ON How can leaders who built 200 universities in 60 years be worse than leaders who built 0 universities in 63 years? How can leaders who built 25 power plants since independence be worse than leaders who built ZERO power plants in 63 years of colonial rule? How can leaders who invested in mass public education, raising literacy rates to 75% be worse than leaders who left literacy rate at 5% at independence? Something is seriously wrong with your head. You must be suffering from some sort of mental illness!! Go see a damn psychiatrist cos you are a LOON. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:58pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
oluwadabira222: Nigeria is not up to 180 million. Many areas except the big cities are scanty. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 10:59pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Rossnitti:Can any city in Nigeria rival the cities in South Africa, look at how the country was developed to European standards. Majority of Nigerians will have preferred if the South African leaders ruled Nigeria until the 80's and 90's before they handed over power. You can't accept the truth that all Nigerian cities have some of the worst HDI indices in the world. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by oluwadabira222(m): 11:07pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
thebosstrevor1:hmm.... You maybe right to some extent sha! |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Agbegbaorogboye: 11:13pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
oluwadabira222:Stop blaspheming the name of Jesus because you want to defend failure. You're well within your rights to defend failure but leave Jesus out of it. Jesus had a more difficult task of saving the wretched souls of your generations past and coming yet he succeeded. Don't compare him to a failure 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 11:15pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Agbegbaorogboye:100% agree. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Agbegbaorogboye: 11:16pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
oluwadabira222: Overpopulation is affecting us because the forebears of the north felt it was better to have ignorant and uneducated folks bound in the shackles of religion and tribe than to have enlightened minds whose latent potentials could have been unearthed by education. The overpopulation being a curse is not an accident. It was a well planned move by some myopic and power hungry oligarchs in the north. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by lagdmark(m): 11:19pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy:Boy how old are you?, imagine British to manage the country in 10 years Nigeria will be worse than today. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Agbegbaorogboye: 11:21pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy:Don't mind the idiotic asslicker. He should tell us what natural resources translate to the wealth of New York. New York invested in its people and turned them to its biggest source of capital. Nigeria invested in oil and turned it to its biggest source of capital. It's the end that justifies the means. It's not about who is poor. It's about what you do with what you have. While we are claiming we don't have enough money like New York, he is not talking about the fact that we live on free money while New York has worked for its own money 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 11:23pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
lagdmark:Look at Cape Town,Johanessburg,Pretoria,Durban,Bloemfontein,Port Elizabeth,East London,Kimberly,Klerkdorp in South Africa. No single Nigerian city can rival them. Nigerian leaders were to busy looting billions of dollars and cornering oil blocks through their various fronts. Instead of being concerned with nation building. Look at Lagos, Nigerian's make mouth about, ranked as one of the worst cities to live in the world.We have to stop celebrating mediocrity!
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Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Agbegbaorogboye: 11:23pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
lagdmark:Dats not true. The British managed Nigeria when we had no oil and built infrastructure we can only dream of now that we have oil |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 11:28pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Agbegbaorogboye:What natural resources transformed Japan after it was devasted in the second World War in 1945 to become one of the world economic and technological powehouses in the world. I hate people that makes excuses for failure and don't take accountability. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 11:31pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
thebosstrevor1: Donkey, it is about how much they built in 63 years considering the amount of money they made from exporting our resources. Answer the question What railway ''systems'' ![]() I just told you, you dunce, that they built TWO LINES from north to south to evacuate your resources!!! Nothing else! A proper railway system connects various cities across the nation, to boost economic activity, similar to what the current leadership are doing with the Lagos - Ibadan line, East - West Line, Itakpe-Warri line etc. Not just linking the north to southern ports for export of resources! Damn you are slow. Who built university of ibadan If a black government builds you 1 university in 63 years, will you commend them? Of course you wouldn't. You would condemn them as looters and thieves. The white man throws you crumbs from his table, and like a dog you lap it up gratefully and praise him to high heaven. Are you mentally ill? Who built kings and queens college and other former elite secondary schools. ELITE secondary schools? What about the rest of the population? So the white man comes and rules you for 63 years, loots your resources, and builds you a handful of ELITE schools, leaving you with 95% illiteracy rate at independence, and you are praising him for that? Who did this to you? Who built first bank Well they had to build a bank or two to help them siphon the money they were looting and embezzling, didn't they? How could they have exploited you without banks? Primary healthcare systems What ''primary healthcare systems''? Little boy, the British built a total of 11 hospitals in all of Nigeria for the masses, and 51 hospitals for their own officials, and Nigerians were barred from those 51 hospitals. The road networks What road networks? They were only a tiny handful of roads at independence. No roads led to villages like we have today. Back then you had to get off at the nearest road to your village and walk along bush paths, sometimes for days, before reaching your village. Why do you think we are spending so much building new roads today across the nation? It is because we had NO ROADS. THAT IS WHY WE ARE BUILDING NEW ROADS, BRIDGES, FLYOVERS, ETC TILL TODAY, BECAUSE AT INDEPENDENCE NIGERIA WAS JUST A BUSH. The military They did not ''build'' any of these things. They simple ESTABLISHED services to which they gave those titles. Those services were poorly funded and had nothing at independence. The military had no real weapons or armoury at independence. The airforce had no jet fighters. The police, fire depts etc were just that in name only, and their influence was limited to GRA, Ikoyi and other elite areas where the white officials lived. The civil service was just a bunch of clerks sitting in offices. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 11:47pm On Nov 13, 2020 |
Agbegbaorogboye: Dummy, what infrastructure did the British build when we didn't even have a single power station till 4 years after they left? Kainji Dam. THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY WHEN THEY WERE IN POWER!!!! ARE YOU STUPID? Don't you have a brain? Somebody rules you for 63 years , exporting your resources, and at the end you don't even have a single power plant or a national grid, yet you say they built you infrastructure. What infrastructure? With no electricity? TUFIAKWA, you people are slaves. And you think like slaves. Get this. Colonialism is an exercise in EXPLOITATION. The colonialist comes to your country to colonise you so that they can LOOT YOUR RESOURCES and enrich their home country. That is the VERY ESSENCE of colonialism. They are not there to develop you. Any 'infrastructure' you see, such as one university, or one rail line etc, when you check it, was built to further THEIR colonial objectives of exploitation. For example, they needed to build one university at Ibadan so they could have a core of black civil service staff to help them administer the country on their behalf. For example, the 2 railway lines they built were straight lines from north to south so they could move your timber, groundnuts, iron ore, tin, coal etc to the southern ports for EXPORT. The proceeds were kept in London, not used to develop Nigeria. That is why Nigeria was still a ''developing country'' with mass illiteracy, malnutrition, and nake.d, barefooted children running around the streets at independence, despite 63 years of BRITISH RULE. It was an exercise in EXPLOITATION. Try to understand what COLONIALISM means. You went to school. Use your brain. Tufiakwa. 4 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 12:07am On Nov 14, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy: Mr Brainless. South Africa is more developed than Nigeria today because South Africa has been developing since 1820, while Nigeria only began to develop in 1960 after independence. The whites who colonised South Africa regarded it as THEIR country, as the temperate weather attracted millions of them there from Europe, and so they did not completely loot the nation's resources to send abroad when they took over. Therefore the country had been developing since the 1820s, as the rulers reinvested maybe half of the export proceeds back into South Africa from that period. Right from the 1800s, they built universities, built roads, bridges, power plants, engineering institutes, proper rail systems and other genuine infrastructure that spurred development, such that by the 1940s, south Africa was more or less a developed country. In the rest of black Africa it was a different story. The colonialists just looted and looted and looted, and put nothing back, such that at independence in the 1960s, those countries were just BUSH, like Nigeria. South Africa had a head start of 150 years on the rest of black Africa in terms of development. THAT is the only reason they are more developed today. WE are playing catch up, and there are good historical reasons for it. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by AlfaSeltzer(m): 12:12am On Nov 14, 2020 |
Just imagine if only Aburi Accord was implemented. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Agbegbaorogboye: 12:23am On Nov 14, 2020 |
Rossnitti:You sound like something is damaged in you. Tone down on the insults. You don't have a monopoly of it except you're not capable of a decent conversation. I'm an African like you so I have no reason to defend the white man. While you accept that colonialism is not about developing the colony (which is true) you still turn around to blame the colonialist for not developing Africa. What is not deniable is that, the colonialists left Nigeria better than they met it. Yet, they never had a social pact or contract like our govt has with us. You have a point about the founding fathers especially working to make Nigeria better. But you need to realise Nigeria largely lost the plot in the 80s and 90s when oil became the mainstay of our economy. With oil, the money comes everyday and a military govt doesn't need a FAAC meeting before spending the money. They're also not accountable to the people just like the colonialists which is why they ended up like them. Building token infrastructure while swallowing the larger chunk of the money. That said, electricity which you've been talking about was a pretty new invention in the late nineteenth century. It's use became more widespread in the early 20th century. And for the rails, they ran from Lagos down to Kano, port Harcourt to Maiduguri and from Baro to Kaduna. These are not just two routes as you claim. They're looking routes linking different towns which we've struggled to maintain and even replicate in 2000s. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 12:25am On Nov 14, 2020 |
Rossnitti:Excuses,excuses and more excuses!You're no match for my intellect joker! Why did Japan with no natural resources not make that same excuse when all their infrastructure got devasted in World War 2 in 1945 and had to rebuild their country from scratch to become of the the wealthiest countries. Why didn't Paul Kagame make the same excuse when Rwanda was devastated by the civil war in 1994 that led to the world's worst genocide. And he had to rebuild the country from scratch. Nigeria's leaders failed plain and simple because of their unbridled greed, corruption,ethnic politics and lack of vision. And that is why the country is a failed state and has it's citizens risking their lives through the Sahara Dessert,Libya and Mediterrean sea to get to Europe. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 12:51am On Nov 14, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy: You? Intellect?? You are a hate-filled demon with zero intellect. Why did Japan with no natural resources not make that same excuse when all their infrastructure got devasted in World War 2 in 1945 and had to rebuild their country from scratch to become of the the wealthiest countries. All their infrastructure was NOT devastated in 1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. The rest of Japan was virtually untouched. Do you think it is easy to devastate an entire country's infrastructure? Why would the allies have even done that when they had billions of dollars in investments in Japan at the time? Even Germany that was defeated, 95% of her infrastructure was intact after the war, despite the bombings of Berlin, Dresden, Cologne etc. Little boy arguing rubbish. Why didn't Paul Kagame make the same excuse when Rwanda was devastated by the civil war in 1994 that led to the world's worst genocide. And he had to rebuild the country from scratch. Rwanda is not even as developed as 1/20th of Nigeria. You must be bamboozled by the images of their capital, Kigali. Leave KigaliI - their only city - and venture into the countryside. They are as underdeveloped as any country you can imagine. Nigeria's leaders failed plain and simple because of their unbridled greed, corruption,ethnic politics and lack of vision. And that is why the country is a failed state and has it's citizens risking their lives through the Sahara Dessert,Libya and Mediterrean sea to get to Europe. You are like a broken record and a robot. I asked you before to prove YOU would be a better leader of Nigeria if elected, and you claimed you would never steal if elected to office because you are a ''well raised christian''. I don't believe you. You come across as a very spiteful person who cares for no one. We've had other ''well raised christians'' ruling Nigeria and they were corrupt, JUST LIKE YOU WOULD BE IF GIVEN POWER, so get lost, Mr Holier than thou Saint Fingerpointer. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 1:00am On Nov 14, 2020 |
Rossnitti:You have no knowledge of history and World War 2, you suffer from delusions of grandeur and low I.Q.The attacks also caused extensive damage to Japan's urban areas. Approximately 40 percent of the urban area of the 66 cities subjected to area attacks were destroyed and over 600 major industrial facilities were destroyed or badly damaged, contributing to a large decline in production. And they still rebuilt their country to become one of the wealthiest nation in the world and the most technologically advanced. You make excuses for Nigeria's underdevelopment, but won't spare Rwanda that had to rebuild their country just two decades ago. If Nigeria had Christian leaders the country will have been developed. The foundations of majority of European nations such as United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,France,Switzerland,Canada and United States were built on Christian values. |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 1:03am On Nov 14, 2020 |
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Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Rossnitti: 1:15am On Nov 14, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy: Says an uneducated lowlife, with less than a high school education. The attacks also caused extensive damage to Japan's urban areas. Approximately 40 percent of the urban area of the 66 cities subjected to area attacks were destroyed and over 600 major industrial facilities were destroyed or badly damaged, contributing to a large decline in production. And they still rebuilt their country to become one of the wealthiest nation in the world and most technologically advanced. Peabrain, Japan had a highly educated population, large finances, and a large technological sector in the 1940s that could easily muster the wherewithal to rebuild the nation after the war. In 1960, Nigeria was 95% illiterate and had zero industries. Yet you expect Nigeria to have developed to be like Japan. I mean, you are just dumb. Go and study Development Economics. You make excuses for Nigeria underdevelopment They sound like ''excuses'' to you because you're not well educated, have a low IQ and cannot reason beyond simplistic barometres of blame, and fingerpointing. 80% of nations on earth are developing nations. Nigeria is NOT unique. By your logic of a 3 year old, all those developing nations, many of whom have huge resources as well, are still underdeveloped because they are ''stupid, corrupt, worthless etc etc''. That's how you reason. Like a child. but won't spare Rwanda that had to rebuild their country just two decades ago. How is Rwanda rebuilt? Where in Rwanda is rebuilt outside Kigali? What do they manufacture in Rwanda? If Nigeria had Christian leaders the country will have been developed. The foundations of majority of European nations such as United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,France,Switzerland,Canada and United States were built on Christian values. Just look at the fanatical garbage this idiot is spouting here. Ludicrous. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Is A Very Poor Country by Nobody: 1:20am On Nov 14, 2020 |
RuudVanNisteroy:How much was the money ... 1 Like |
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