FERNANDEZISBACK:

Cholls 1 burrito for you.. you really gave the guy some cold response..

Imagine the way the kid keeps supporting failure.. always supporting failure.. Nigeria is a failed country except Nigerians wanna keep deceiving themself.. instead of that boy to accept that he keeps giving silly excuses...
No point debating with that boy who can't convey his point without being mindless..

Reflect7:


I'm old enough to be your dad, and know far more about the world and its history than you.

If you think Nigeria is a ''failed country'', you are clearly a historical illiterate, who can't see beyond his own nose, because a nation that is barely half a century into independence is just at the beginning of its existence. She therefore cannot be pronounced ''failed'' any more than a three year old baby can be said to have failed in life for stumbling.

Ttalk:


What is your definition of a failed state.

Because the world definition by UN of a failed state fits Nigeria of today

A failed state is a political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly (see also fragile state and state collapse). A state can also fail if the government loses its legitimacy even if it is performing its functions properly. For a stable state, it is necessary for the government to enjoy both effectiveness and legitimacy. Likewise, when a nation weakens and its standard of living declines, it introduces the possibility of total governmental collapse. The Fund for Peace characterizes a failed state as having the following characteristics:

Loss of control of its territory, or of the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force
Erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions
Inability to provide public services
Inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community

Reflect7:


Another dumb, illiterate response.

Firstly, it is ignorant beyond comprehension comparing a city, 'Dubai' to a country.

Do you even know that Dubai is a city and not a country?

How and why should Nigeria - country - look like the city of Dubai, you dumbass knucklehead?

And for those who know better, the UAE, of which Dubai is its capital, has a population of 9 million, yet is 7th in world oil exports, compared to Nigeria which is 11th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

UAE has three times Nigeria's oil reserves, and exports around 4 million barrels a day, compared to Nigeria's 1.7 million.

Nigeria has 220 million people to cater for.

UAE, 9 million.

Simple, basic mathematics shows It is the HEIGHT OF INSANITY AND IGNORANCE to say that Nigeria ought to be as prosperous as the UAE based on its oil revenue.

Ttalk:


Let me burst you here before I go to bed.

You are quick to point out the comparative strength of Dubai but ignored the strength of Nigeria in areas of Population, land mass, rich culture, large deposit mineral resources, human resources etc. All of which command more value than oil.

Does anyone stop Nigeria from earning huge money out of her abundance resources?

Since when population becomes a determinant of country's wealth?

Why does USA, China with higher population have more wealth, just like small countries like Netherland, Swizerland are not retarding

Reflect7:


Does anyone stops Nigeria from earning huge money out of her abundance resources?

Since when population becomes a determinant of country's wealth?

Why does USA, China with higher population have more wealth, just like small countries like Netherland, Swizerland are not retarding

Nigeria suffered from the phenomenon known as the Oil Curse. It is the tendency, not unique to Nigeria, where a developing country gets sudden access to oil wealth, and it leads to the neglect of other sectors of the economy, including hitherto booming sectors.

The good thing is that Nigeria has learnt from the experience, and is diversifying its economy away from oil, into other growing sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, and the services.

YOUR JOB is to contribute to that diversification, instead of wasting time and energy telling yourselves you are naturally wicked and inferior people with no redemption.

Ttalk:


Why didn't Dubai you mentioned didn't suffer similar curse, abi the curse doesn't affect Arab countries? What about Saudi Arabia?

Reflect7:


Nigeria suffered from the phenomenon known as the Oil Curse. It is the tendency, not unique to Nigeria, where a developing country gets sudden access to oil wealth, and it leads to the gradual neglect of other sectors of the economy, including hitherto booming sectors.

The good thing is that Nigeria has learnt from the experience, and is diversifying its economy away from oil, into other growing sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, the services, entertainment, etc.

YOUR JOB is to contribute to that diversification, as a member of the private sector, instead of wasting time and energy telling yourselves you are naturally wicked and inferior people with no redemption.

Ttalk:


Are you for real? Nigeria diversifying into agriculture? How?

What has Nigerian done in that aspect? Building few rice mill is what you called diversification?

Any sign of growth you see in Agriculture sector is solely private and individual effort?

What policy of government point to such diversification?

What financial measures are there as a proof of diversification?

What government investment in agriculture can be equate to what is used to explore oil in Chad basin?

What are the new research and modern institute to promote agricultural development?

Where are the market and preservation mechanism to sustain Agriculture product

Where are the government incentives, subsidy and grants for agricultural purposes?

What are the budget for agriculture in FG and State since agriculture bus in concurrent list?

It's like you are confined to theoretical narratives being pushed out but not in the field to know what's up.
Nigeria has invest more on oil and gas in the last 15years that in agriculture, so where is the diversification?

Reflect7:


It is not my job to educate you on the clear diversification of the economy going on, including in Agriculture.

Go on Google and do the research yourself, if you actually care.

Ttalk:


Hey I want you you to educate me so others can learn, we all know Goggle exist before coming online in quest for knowledge.

I put it to you that your diversification theory is a mere jingle government feed your likes but not in tandem with the reality on ground.

A train was bombed on Monday, Airport and government security facilities are being targeted and you are talking of diversification into agriculture.

Tell me, will you as an investor put your money into farming when you are likely to be kidnapped or killed?

Will you as a banker give loan to finance a farming project in this terrorist ravaged country?

How do you explain farmers sharing farm products with bandits and criminals for the safety of his life, or you want to feign that is make up story that is not happening in Nigeria?

I asked you, where is the diversification into agriculture in this state of nation

Cholls:
my brothers and sisters see excuse

Reflect7:


[[s]b]I'm old enough to be your dad, and know far more about the world and its history than you.

If you think Nigeria is a ''failed country'', you are clearly a historical illiterate, who can't see beyond his own nose, because a nation that is barely half a century into independence is just at the beginning of its existence. She therefore cannot be pronounced ''failed'' any more than a three year old baby can be said to have failed in life for stumbling.[/b][/s]

Reflect7:


A superstitious colour-based belief caused by colonial brainwashing.

Black and other dark skin is caused by the heavenly BLESSING of a chemical called Melanin.

It is what prevents you from dying of sun-related diseases and skin ailments.

God, in his infinite wisdom gave you MELANIN as a protective element, which is why people are darker-skinned the closer they are to the Equator.

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South America all have melanin-enriched populations.

The sunniest continent, Africa, has people with the highest concentration of the heavenly chemical from the Almighty.

WITHOUT that melanin, YOU would not be alive today because your ancestors would have perished thousands of years ago.

Every day you wake up, THANK YOUR MAKER for making you black.

Cholls:
My brothers and sisters this school dropout, have nothing sensible to say. He keeps coming up with excuses. Get a life, you recalcitrant, ignorant, empty-headed dropout.

IGBOSON1:


Don’t mind him! What of Singapore and Dubai that started developing just yesterday when compared to Nigeria!

A big part of our problem is pretending we don’t have a problem!

Reflect7:


Let me put you in a race and start you 200 yards behind other participants, and then see where you end up at the end of the race.

Simplest way to break it down for a dumb cretin like you.

Reflect7:


Oh GET LOST. Who cares what you think? Go hang yourself or go suck on some SA dck or whatever takes your fancy.

My response is for those with brains to think and learn, not self-loathing, school dropout riffraff with rocks for brains.

Reflect7:


The TINY populations of the gulf states means that they can afford to live off their oil wealth and literally do nothing else.

If you want to know how gargantuan the corruption of the gulf oil elite is, go and visit Millionaires Row in London, or the suburbs of Monaco and Beverly Hills.

They simply have enough oil funds to cater to their tiny populations even as they enrich themselves to stupendous levels.

UAE (capital, Dubai) has just 9 million people and they export three times the amount of oil Nigeria does. It's like giving a district of Lagos, say Surulere, the entire Nigerian annual oil wealth earnings TIMES THREE, equivalent to about 100 billion dollars a year.

Will Surulere not look like heaven on Earth after a couple of months or less?

Reflect7:


Another dumb, illiterate response.

Firstly, it is ignorant beyond comprehension comparing a city, 'Dubai' to a country.

Do you even know that Dubai is a city and not a country?

How and why should Nigeria - country - look like the city of Dubai, you dumbass knucklehead?

And for those who know better, the UAE, of which Dubai is its capital, has a population of 9 million, yet is 7th in world oil exports, compared to Nigeria which is 11th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

UAE has three times Nigeria's oil reserves, and exports around 4 million barrels a day, compared to Nigeria's 1.7 million.

Nigeria has 220 million people to cater for.

UAE, 9 million.

Simple, basic mathematics shows It is the HEIGHT OF INSANITY AND IGNORANCE to say that Nigeria ought to be as prosperous as the UAE based on its oil revenue.

Readability:
I know it's really hard for Nigerians to love their country because of the way things are going, and the not caring attitude of our leaders. But the inferiority complex is too much, Reflect7 has mentioned so many reasons as to the development of other countries that are way ahead of us, but many of us just decide to believe that being white means being superior which is not so.

I would have called you lot white supremacist but you're not even white, heck you're a black man like me. As much as I don't agree to his words on government action towards diversification, but the guy has said nothing but the truth. Many people don't even know Africa's history and how we got to this level, all they just want to see is miracle. Most SouthAsian countries are still developing economies like ours but they love their country and are good compatriots, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam et al. Other countries in Africa that are as bad as ours still believe in their country, DR Congo is a good example. Let's stop the hatred of our fathers land and our skin color, it won't do us any good neither will it make things better.

We need to change the way we reason in this country, if we all lose hope in the country and believe it's not going to get better, honestly it won't. But we can all keep doing our quota to making this country a better place, discourage voting apathy, and if you want to travel abroad that's also good you can use the money earned to establish businesses back home.

Readability:
I know it's really hard for Nigerians to love their country because of the way things are going, and the not caring attitude of our leaders. But the inferiority complex is too much, Reflect7 has mentioned so many reasons as to the development of other countries that are way ahead of us, but many of us just decide to believe that being white means being superior which is not so.

I would have called you lot white supremacist but you're not even white, heck you're a black man like me. As much as I don't agree to his words on government action towards diversification, but the guy has said nothing but the truth. Many people don't even know Africa's history and how we got to this level, all they just want to see is miracle.

We need to change the way we reason in this country, if we all lose hope in the country and believe it's not going to get better, honestly it won't. But we can all keep doing our quota to making this country a better place, discourage voting apathy, and if you want to travel abroad that's also good you can use the money earned to establish businesses back home.

LasgidyPort:


Doing that quota is what a lot of people find difficult to do.

Nigerians behave so badly and then want leadership to automatically provide a civil and sane society for them out of the blues.

Nigerians cannot wait in line for anything. They by themselves over the years corrupted the public services by their hasty attitude to get things done ahead of others by any means possible.

The so called decadence happening in Nigeria was caused by Nigerians themselves not people from Pluto.

Apple's come from apples.

The so called leadership, myopic people are trying to lay the blame on are also from the people.

95% of Naija people are morally defective is the simple reason we have been getting bad leadership. The rest talking from the back have just not been availed the opportunity to dip their hands in the cookie jar, some of them are worse!

The British developed Britain
Americans developed America.
The Japanese developed Japan.

The Chinese 're currently developing their country and taking millions of their people out of poverty.

Nigerians, the ball is in your court to also develop your country.

Reflect7:




And for those who know better, the UAE, of which Dubai is its capital.

SIBF:

The capital of UAE is Abu Dhabi

Reflect7:


Because they were chosen by the rich, developed west as a capitalist trading outpost and transport interchange, and an important bulwark against Soviet communist encroachment, together with the other 4 or 5 Asian 'tiger economies'. These nations, after WW2, received massive technology transfer, huge financial grants and favourable loans of all kinds from Europe and the USA, to serve as capitalist bulwarks against rampaging communism in the Pacific following Soviet successes in the war and subsequent communist expansionism.

It's a bit similar to what the west has been doing in Ukraine. Pumping them with money and technology transfer to serve as a counter to Russia.

This is why Singapore is an island of prosperity in a sea of developing countries worse than many African states, such as Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan etc etc. THAT is how Singapore would have been without the ARTIFICIAL western involvement.

What you should ask is why 80% of the world comprises developing nations like Nigeria, and the reason is historical, and is tied largely to western brigandage of the Earth, from which most countries are still trying to recover.

Reflect7:


By at least THREE of the criteria hIghlighted in the 4 bolded, the USA itself is a failed state.

The US murder rate is over 50,000 per annum, equivalent to 50 Boko Harams operating all at once. 7 in 10 adults bear arms, meaning their FG does not have ''the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force''.

Many parts of rural America are no-go areas for racial minorities, so the US govt has a ''loss of control of territory''.

And 80% of nations on Earth are developing countries, with varying degrees of ''inability to provide public services'', so if Nigeria is 'failed' on account of inadequate provision of public services, then so are 80% of countries on Earth.

The problem with most of you is that you don't travel to anywhere else on Earth except that tiny strata, that 20% of the world called the developed west, because of your colonial brainwashing that it is the only place worth a visit.

So to you, they have come to represent ''the world'', against which you judge yourselves. It is why you consider yourselves ''failed'', because the west is all you know.

But IF you traveled the REAL world, where most countries on Earth are located, you would quickly realise that Nigeria is not unique in the developmental challenges it faces. Y'all might even get to lose your national and inferiority complex.