KnownUnknown:
I’ve never heard of the potential leaders talk about creating strong institutions with proper laws, or building infrastructure like a modern drainage system and underground transportation system., or properly planning and zoning a city, or building a national highway system.

The British extracted the wealth, gave them a stupid religion, and didn’t even bother to build infrastructure. When the Nigerians took over, they didn’t build infrastructure either because they were too busy worrying about which ethnic group should rule the others and the northerners in particularly have been turned into savages by Islam.

Raydos:


Because they failed, You also want to follow that path?? You can be the CHANGE

Kingosytex:
The streets are like that because the residents want it to be like that
Just take for instance, here on Nairaland some fools are paid a token to spew all sorts of lie and defend the indefensible, there are so many brain dead people around who are comfortable with maintaining the status quo.
I gave an example with Qatar some time ago and some ignorant folks started spewing trash of how Qatar isn't as populated as Nigeria. Is the problem really population? These looters you all call leaders will squander the resources of Qatar in a twinkle of an eye; it's not about population.

blueAgent:


Crap.

Ppl like you are the reason we are 3rd world.

Rubbiish:

& u think the money paid as taxes will be put into use by our corrupt leaders? Lol
What are they doing with the budget allocations? You guys are funny..

LOVEALAIGBO:
Dey there dey play! Gov't and their otimpkus will tell you what you're seeing there are 'dividends of democracy'!

Raydos:
Then we go online and flaunt all the expensive cars and phones we have, all these things are not even invented by us, we contribute absolute nothing to the world

When I go to the street, I look at how nigeria look, Most of them look malnourished,

People struggling from the day they were born till the day they die

Pansophism:


Please list the countries China invaded and looted within the past 5,000 years.

nairalanda1:


Why aren't you holding your leaders to account.

Get up and do that. That's how they did in those developed nations you admire, back when many of them were shitholes.

Simple.

Raydos:
Why are we not building cities? Even most part of Lagos and Abuja still look like crap!!

Nigeria has the highest population of black people in the world, It's literally the home of black people!!

And it's saddening that it look like this in 24th century?

nairalanda1:


1.Saudi and Qatar and UAE are where they are because they produce large amounts of oil for countries with very small populations. (Qatar produces nearly 2 million barrels of crude, AND has about 1.1 million people.

2.Singapore does not produce oil, but they lie in a strategic position, which they maximised by reinventing themselves as a manufacturing hub. And as a place for exports to rest of aAsia to pass through.

3.Ditto Malaysia (and Malaysia is not that rich. Go outside KL...there are large poor regions.).


Nigeria can be there if we first get rid of the idea that we all have to rely on oil, start paying sensible taxes, AND transition our economy to a manufacturing exporter.

Reflect7:


Really? You pea brain.

So if I break into your house and shoot you and steal your property, it means I am smarter and more advanced than you?

Can you see how you reason like a BEAST?

Are you human?

YOU DOG.

How would you fancy someone bursting into your house right now and gunning down you and your entire family, just to take over your house?

OK so, since in your PRIMITIVE BEAST HEAD, MILITARY MIGHT GIVES ONE THE RIGHT TO INVADE AND MASS MURDER OTHER NATIONS, AND LOOT THEIR WEALTH, what stops that from being acceptable today?

Every nation with a powerful army should just get up and attack their neighbour, enslave them and loot their wealth!

Can't you see you are a sick, demented person?



WHO THE HELL TOLD YOU THEY HAVEN'T?

Are you even AFRICAN?

YOU SOUND LIKE ONE OF THESE NASTY AMERICAN racists who come in here pretending to be Nigerian to push their racist anti-black views.

Lemme guess: You think we all live in mud huts like in National GeographIc and Tarzan.

Frigging American AIR HEAD.




So why could Singapore's neighbours like Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and Nepal not replicate Singaporean ''magic''? Instead they're worse off than most African countries.

Of course, being an absolute dunce, you haven't the slightest clue.

Singapore is a city-state. Did you know that?

It's not actually a country. It's just an island CITY.

It was made rich because the British made it a hub for trading ships crossing the Pacific from centuries ago. They simply made money from taxing the trade, with which they used to build a city starting over a century ago.

BIG DEAL.

All the African cities apart from South Africa only began to develop after the 1960s, since the colonialists built nothing, and just looted African resources for a century.

So don't expect them to look like Singapore just yet, but many of them look like they are getting pretty close.




The actual babies of this world are the white race, an intensely stupid, shortsighted, greedy, unprincipled race drowned in hypocrisy, for whom the BEASTLY, SAVAGE PRINCIPLE of 'might is right' this very minute, has the world on the precipice of NUCLEAR EXTINCTION.

ONLY THE ALMIGHTY GOD is keeping us alive today.

This very minute these WHITE CRETINS have nuclear missiles capable of destroying all life on Earth many times over POINTING AT EACH OTHER.

They are too stupid to sit down and reach a settlement that ends their CRAZED, DEMENTED nuclear arms race.

Any slight miscalculation and we're all gone! Poof! Just like that!

SO WHO THE fck IS THE BABY OF THE WORLD, YOU BLASTED, INSOLENT TWERP?

nairalanda1:
Funny thing about this thread is that Nigerians want what the Europeans have without making the sacrifices the Europeans make.

All I know is, if we paid something like N100000 per month in council tax..for everyone earning 200000 per month, you will see nice looking cities in Nigeria. The poor would be more invested in seeing their money is spent right, and the leaders won';t dare steal money.

But it is far easier to engage in self flagellation and call black people dull.

Am out.

Rubbiish:

So u don change mouth?
I thought u said it was lack of tax payment?
So we should hold leaders accountable? Lol
You people are irredeemable, because u are not even willing to face reality. Despite all the embezzlement going on in government, u still have the guts to be posting tax payment? Knowing fully well the budget allocated for projects are looted & not put into use, u still want to extort more from the poor? All the monies abacha & past leaders stashed in foreign banks were allocated for such?

A thief that admits he is a thief is far easier to redeem than one that knows he is a thief, but still shouts on top of his voice.

Reinaldo:


Have you seen any development with the taxes paid so far? Stop deceiving yourselves. People are willing to pay taxes in those regions because their systems work and there is transparency.

SmartPolician:


Black Africans have low IQ. We can choose to deny that, but facts are facts. The Black Africans lack innovation. That explains why Nigeria hasn't made appreciable progress since 60 years after independence.

igwebuike01:

Why all the cursing? No paved road in your pictures. Meanwhile, it's a painting from imagination

HarryGleb:
If the British are still ruling Nigeria it would have been better than what we have now.

SmartPolician:


This is soooo brutal!

The truth is that everyone doesn't have the same mental capacity; I found out in the university. In school, some of us read to learn.

However, I was shocked when I met a course mate who could cram the text of an entire page of a textbook and reproduce it without looking at the page word for word. I am not kidding. God knows that I cannot do that. He graduated with 4.23. He nearly made a first class.

Meeting that guy exposed me to the fact that there are things one can never be, no matter how much one tries. Humans are not the same. Humans don't have the same mental capacity. Genetic makeups differentiate races. For Black Africans to come close to Caucasians in mental capacity, we have to invest massively in education.

Love800:
Pls which are the carribean countries?
Which continent are they located too.

soundOsonic:

Calm down bro, an a[b]verage Nigerians is by far more intelligent than an average Americans.[/b]
Don't take my word for it, Nigerians are more successful than every other race in USA, check the data...
Your logic is flawed, the disparity is the system, you might say it is still thesame black that controls that system, you are wrong.
Our system is still controlled by our masters.

Our economy is still controlled by a currency that isn't even ours, dollars, our resources are been taken by them, how we act against terrorism is still determined by our masters.

How we think and see ourselves is dependent of these same people. Where are these corrupt government spending our money?
Do you think our masters don't know these money spent on their land are from corruption?

They select puppet to make our system what it is, think no normal human will see his house in damage or poor state and not fix it.

capetownboyz:
Mehn everyone is riddled up with emotions ,it’s well but for real growing up in this system and seeing no change in sight makes it all worst for an African( Nigerian) ..The white see the good in development while the blacks ask why do we need development ! It not like my next door neighbor have any use for it ,it will be better I go to places that are more developed and enjoy the resources myself ..more reason you see Nigerians leaving in droves cause no one seems to understand how to tackle and develop this system..I will still maintain my stand and i will say it clearly a country like Nigeria shouldn’t have been coined together..white are evil and Africa is a cesspit of project to them ..we don’t have absolute control of our thoughts and they defeated us by starting with religion, waiting on God’s miracle before we start thinking right for ourselves ..Our creator somewhere must be laughing at us and the stupidity that we exhibit among his creations ..we lack foresight.

Ladyclara002:
If you ask me,na who i go ask?
We are suffering bro

Blakjewelry:

You guys can't discuss Nigeria without insult and curses? Criticism should be constructive. Discussions should highlights the problem and present a solution. Now back to the to topic, the major cause of the problem is the local government which are not closer to the grassroot, they are not functional. Most of the so call local government chairs don't even know why they are there, no town planning no single activity, even streetlights done by state governors, other bodies in some local government are left to rot. I think the local government also need more funding we should also hold the local government chairs more accountable because they are largely been ignored by us.

1Sharon:


The Caribbean is a region on its own. Just under North America.

ovcwality:
op you have a very low IQ, even if they give you Nigeria to govern for 100 years it will not change, because you don't have any solutions. And stop lieing, African countries with a good GDP per Capita have good roads, I followed an Indian they were amazed how the roads were nice, is only when they start reaching Cameroun to western Africa that the roads become horrible again. And all the Caribbean countries with good GDP are neat because the depend on tourism. I have never been there but I have seen some on YouTube, either you have a very low IQ or something must be wrong with your brain

yemmit90:


May God bless you abundantly sir.

Our self centered and egocentric culture/tradition will never make us progress. A typical black man care not about his fellow man or society but himself alone. He is so wicked, materialistic and lack foresight. He only want to be above everyone, he only want to be worship by others, he would rather deprived his fellow men their privilege at home and takes all the fortunes to somewhere else to enjoy alone.

Like you have rightly said, civilization was probably forced on us because it amaze me how you will loot all resources meant for development of your home or your people and take it to another man's land to enjoy alone with your immediate family.

nairalanda1:


For saying that we should do what the first world does, I am now third world....

Okay.

oweniwe:


Why the emphasis on churches only? Is Christianity the only religion in Nigeria? The church is not responsible for the state of bad roads in the country. Churches build roads too. Just that there isn't much publicity about it.

Winners Chapel has offered to fix the entire length of the Sango Ota roads. The govt refused.

Who is responsible for building & fixing roads in Nigeria? It's the government

It's a matter of "Responsibility".

Is it right for a neighbor who is struggling to make ends meet to be feeding the children of rich next door neighbors whose parents are squandering their income on prostitutes, fancy laces and jeweleries and clubbing while their children are starving at home? It's not right. The most you as a good neighbor is to give the kids what you can afford once in a while. Let the parents wake up to their responsibility

So to say individuals and religious organizations should be building roads is very wrong in the first place. PEOPLE ARE PAYING TAXES & LEVIES FOR A REASON.

Do the governments abroad that built build beautiful roads & streets have two heads? Let the Nigerian governments sit up to their responsibility