werepeLeri: What do you think Nigeria would have been like if the above were true?

Empty?

Ijogz K: A change would only happen if we can split up.. The country is too large for Illiterates to control.. Its easier for illiterate to manage small businesses and organization.. It takes an intellectual and experienced hand to manage a multinational organization... That's the exact case we have here in Naija

I am in support of this argument and your analogy.

Nigeria is just too complicated for mediocres and illiterates. An uneducated person is better suited to managing a wheel-barrow of Omo or Garri in the market place, than being the MD or CEO of Pfizer or Microsoft.

Although we do have intelligent ones among us, those who are asked to vote (and defend their votes) will view the candidates from the prism of tribe or religion. Therefore, let us simplify the equation. Break up the country or give each sub-region 90% political and economic autonomy. Whichever region elects a monkey should expect banana governance.

It is that simple, really.

As you can see, Nigeria has a LONG way to go politically; and probably up to 90% of us dont even know how far and how hard the journey will be. This is the real tragedy of our system as it is today

A good post.

Not much I can really add to it. The elite benefit from the ignorance of the population (it's pretty much true everywhere but taken to extreme in the less developed countries).

It will take a really long time. Look to the next generation as (since independence) our parents and grand parents have failed us.

Nigeria without a corrupt Nigerian is no Nigeria!

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which year go be dat?

There is an old Nigeria- the country where corruption, mediocrity and selfishness have been institutionalized. Wrong is right in this dispensation and so you are said to be slack if you insist on what is right(wrong in the old times). Lets have young people who refuse to think like those before them. Lets have young people who play their roles with new thinking and innovation. People who respect the dignity of the Human life. Lets have Governors whose works rather than billboards speak for them. People reasonable enough to embark on projects that will outlive their tenure in office.
The people need water to flow in homes.They need schools-real schools, they need electricity, they need health care; they need to live older than 48years.The old thinking is that we are poor, we cant afford those basic things.The new thinking, however, is "how can we go about it?". Why are our towns and cities unplanned? why are our roads untarred? are these things not important?
I am the Governor, I grew up in the village, I was without shoes when I was young. Several years after, in the same village where I grew up, my brothers, uncles, sisters, cousins, nephews and nieces have remained without schools, hospitals and clean water. Why have we refused to identify with these ones. Why do we leave them to suffer. We build beautiful houses and fence them in for the fear that somone might attack us;someone we refused to provide for in this year's budget. Everyone wants a part of the cake and some will take it by force if it doesn't come to them freely.
Let us shun hypocrisy. God is light and in him there is no darkness. If we say we love God and do not love the man whom we see, we lie. There are beggars everywhere. Asking from those who can barely help. Old men and women, some who have served the nation with all their strenght. Why have we refused to be loyal to these ones.
Nigeria is not an inanimate object. Nigeria is made of people, so we cannot serve Nigeria without serving the people. We cannot love without the people.
Young man think fresh. Say no to all forms corruption. What you sow you shall reap. Corruption destroys the corrupt.

That would only have to be heaven

Dnt evn imagine...


'Nigeria is synonymous to 1st class corruption'

We'll get there someday! I just cant tell when cos an average Nigerian like to patch things up

chimuchi: [size=28pt]its impossible. so lets just leave the imaginary imagination. no time for all these hallucinations and lets move forward. this post is like dreaming. no time. [/size]

Honestly, English Language seems to be your problem.

begwong: @op,Can you name any place on this planet that is corruption free?
No i guess,so until then!

Is that how you imagine?

Ola one: Another head-in-the-clouds, ignore-reality utopianism on Nairaland.



Others are thinking 'bout the future, my people are daydreaming. O ga oo

Hmm . . . castle in the air.

Big enlgish but nothing said - u fail to grasp the ability to imagine.

Nigeria without a corrupt Nigerian will be like the aftermath of a Nuclear war. Empty!

Utopia.