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A system that's design for the rich alone, we should make it work?
Go n sit down jor, u dont know what u are saying.[/quote










Can you please tell us a system designed for the poor? The fact of democracy everywhere is that if you are not rich you can win elections on a large scale. Democracy as it is practiced in real life is not the same as you read it in text books. It is a lot more complicated.

femu:


Do you also realise the closure means we cannot export to West Africa?

What do you export?

livinbygrace:



You never see anything yet .No hope for common man again and All of you supporting this evil man will surely regret it.Nigerians are starving,hunger is ravaging the land and you senseless people are still supporting this hardship of a man called Buhari.May God punish all of you

U are the one who has no hope. Smuggling is a criminal activity and it should stop for demostic production.Nigerian youths are to foolish to understand the economic implications of smuggling.

Gerrard59:


For two consecutive years, CU came first as Nigeria's in the league of institutions with employable graduates.

https://www./blog/stutern-nigerian-graduate-report/

The bishop is doing a good job. That is Nigeria's Harvard few years from now.

It is not employment that really matters for anybody can be employed. What universities are set up to do is to solve problems. What one should be asking is the amount of their research output.

gabicon:
I may not entirely agree with you, the problem of our today youths started when parents told them to go to school get good grades and a job was waiting for them. This advice was given in ignorance, most of our parents as a result of them pioneering the university education got jobs after obtaining a university degree, but considering population growth that system is not sustainable and won't work now because few business have been built and sustained over the years.

Now imagine if you were told that 2+2 =22 for over 20years, changing the answer to 4 will take some time to get used to. The fact is that most parents didn't discern the future of their children, the economy we presently run is a skill economy meaning that a man with a skill and no formal education is preferable to one with the opposite. I'm sure that this economy is going to change again in the next 50years.

Now a young person sold a lie of education for job sees another fellow with no education no skill no business driving a luxury car, living large, and command so much power, it's only natural to want to be like such a person after all we were taught to aspire to be like the best in the society.

Least we forget the online scam industry was created by the Nigerian government during the sagari government, students were sent abroad on scholarship then the country went through a recession and the government stoped every form of support to these students abroad, may of them were left homeless and hungry and their survival instinct kicked in.

To solve this problem we need to understand that it will take time to solve the problem, secondly we need to stop the name calling and blame game, we need to restore equity and fairness in our society, we need venture capital to ensure businesses grow, we need to orientate our youths on the possibilities in our present system and allow them follow their dreams, we need to make sure that our youths think for themselves.

U are reasonable. Only few reasonable individuals know that the civil service employment education system we run is no longer sustainable. It was sustainable in the sixties and seventies because we had fewer graduates and enough oil revenues to sustain it, but now with the growing number of graduates amidst declining oil revenues it is no longer sustainable. Manufacturing would have been a better alternative but our leaders focused on oil revenues in the early days of globalization when Europe and America were moving their factories abroad. Asian countries took advantage of this and some of them became wealthy. Things are now difficult because of protectionism and other unfavourable trade practices from developed countries. So it is going to be difficult to create jobs in Nigeria because we need both technology and money which we don't even have, and the little investments we receive from other countries will only do little to upset the unemployment problems.What will happen as things get much harder is that politicians, tribal leaders and religious people will scoope on these problems to bash whoever is in power that they don't like by instigating the masses against the government. We are seeing this happening already, but the fact remains that Nigeria has a bumpy road ahead. Although I don't want to sound pessimistic but things are not going to get better any time soon. We should have taken advantage of some many things in the past to build our economy, but unfortunately our leaders were not foresighted enough to understand that oil revenues would not be enough to sustain a large and a fast growing country like Nigeria.

PureFace1:


You can not compare Ibadan to any city in South East

Ibadan is almost the same size as the whole Anambra state

There are all kind of buildings and roofs in Ibadan and Ibadan is also more developed than any City in South East

Ibadan is almost 500 years old making it one of the oldest large cities in Nigeria. Its origin dates back to the time when Oyo empire collapsed creating an exodus of people out of Oyo. By the time Ibadan was settled there was no knowledge of the sophisticated architecture you are seeing today,so you can't really fault the people of Ibadan for not using the kind of roofing materials not available to them then. Even at that time ,the decrepit houses you are seeing today are the best anybody could have. The reason those houses are still standing today is because of our low level of economic development. So many of them would have be demolished or renovated if the people have had enough income to do so. Moreover the government doesn't seem to be interested in renovation and preservation of ancient architecture.In fact some of these houses need to be preserved for posterity. This is what China and other serious countries are doing to boost tourism.

Chukazu:
So long as Dangote is not involved you can be sure the federal government won't do anything to help, but the moment Dangote dives in the Auto business the government will relapse every other Law just to favor him... just to maintain him as "the richest man"

My brother business knows no tribe. That you are igbo doesn't mean Coscharis is going to share his money with you. All the money he makes is for himself and his family. All you need do is to work hard so that you too can make enough money for yourself and your family. For your information Dangote already has an assembly plant in Lagos. He assembles the Chinese truck brand, Howo. And if you know the shady deals Nigerian business people indulge in to short change the masses then you will not be talking like this. My advice for you is to educate your mind and begin to work toward building your own future. There's is nothing like tribe, it is you and your family.

Reference:
I will repeat this again.

In the 70's virtually all the cars used in Nigeria were European with a few American models. This was a time Peugeot, Leyland and Mercedes Benz were assembling vehicles in Nigeria. The Japanese launched their cars in the 70's and were ignored by the public on account of build quality. It was only when the economy began to falter that 'cheap' Japanese cars became attractive.

Fast forward a decade later and those cheap cars became expensive due to the rising profile, in came the Koreans with Daewoo and Kia but the same problem, quality.

Fast forward a decade later it was the turn of the Chinese since the Korean vehicles too became exclusive. Today it is Indian vehicles that are the base bargains, even Chinese cars are getting out of hand.

Remember, that Nigeria began vehicle assembly before Japanese cars took root in the late 70's. Fast forward to today. All other cou tries have long moved forward. We are still debating the economics of having on automobile industry.

Please if there is still something called a curse, what can describe it better. If you as a citizen questions the attempt by anyone to right this madness saying who can afford vehicles should hide his head in shame if you know how muchhas been spent importing automobiles into Nigeria since the 70's and how much will have been gained for industry, for jobs and for the prosperity of the Nigerian over this time.

Our shame will soon be complete when we begin to import automobiles from factories in Ghana and Togo while we play with our destinies.... lazy, reprobate citizens...

The first pre-conditions for auto industry is steel industry. We don't have functioning steel industry so it is going to be very difficult to build cars in Nigeria. Another problem is that the auto industry is already saturated making it difficult for new comers to compete. Europe and Asia are already in the lead with state of the art technology thereby making it difficult for other countries to survive. What I think we should do first is to have a functioning steel industry to start with.

Social media has exposed how unreasonable most Nigerians youths are. It is in their nature to react instinctively without thought. Well maybe one should assume that most young people on nairaland are kids without much knowledge. What is going to happen to so many of them is that they are going to be used by politicians to achieve their goals because they are easily manipulable. Can you imagine them calling upon Adesina to contest for president of Nigeria, a man so many of them don't know anything about.

The problem of Nigeria is not about having well qualified individuals to rule only. Even if all our elected leaders are all P. hd holders we will still remain backward. Those intellectuals you see are just intellectuals in name. So many of them don't really understand anything about this world. Without having individuals who are ideologically committed to a goal to take charge of Nigeria Nigeria will probably remain underdeveloped. We don't have to rely entirely on the fairy tales of democracy and hope that we are going to develop. This is no going to happen because no country has ever developed with democracy.Nigeria is not going to be an exception. You can't practice democracy with huge deficits of illiteracy ,poverty and backwardness. You first need a strong government with the determination to defeat the evil of illiteracy, poverty and backwardness before you can be talking about Human Rights and freedom,because the most important of human rights is the right to food, clothing and shelter and without all these rights all other rights are nonsense. This is what China has been able to do with its authoritarian political system, and India despite its so called democracy has remained a poor stinking society.


Democracy will only make it easier for the rich and those who are able to manipulate the masses to get to power and continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. No real development is going to take place. People will criticize, fight and protest but at the end of it all nothing will change. The funny thing is that one group of corrupt politicians will attempt to seize power from those the masses perceive as corrupt to also continue another round of corruption. This is how things are going to play out. No real development takes place in a backward democracy at least for the majority.

olisaEze:


SW - Tribal/Party lines
SS - Party/Tribal lines
SE - Scatter scatter lines

Can you now see that Nigerians are the same. It is not only in Nigeria people vote this way. Even in so called advanced democracies people vote with sentiments.Nowhere human beings are perfect.

franchasng:
Yes this is the calibre of men Yorubas ought to be promoting for Presidential seat not queueing behind a known drug baron cum most corrupt, heartless, selfish politician that calls himself BAT


If Adesina comes out, he has my full support and if Atiku had won, Adesina would have been at the forefront of running Nigeria's economy. You can't deny that about Goodluck and Jonathan; they appoint people based on competence while the Satan of Daura appoints his own cabinets based on tribe, religion, and how much you donated for his political riggings and her gullible Nigerians expect him to do wonders for Nigeria, sighs

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How many wonders did Adesina and others who served under ur Goodluck and Jonathan perform?

olisaEze:
So a picture with the current POTUS is now a validation of presidential capacity in Nigeria?

Oh well, even if all the best PR consultants in Nigeria turn it up for this man, the uneducated rabble in the north will still vote along religious & tribal lines because Nigerians are all talk and no thought once elections begin!

How do people in other parts of Nigeria vote?

bonnylight003:


Negative attention from a section of the Nigerian country...
Conspiracy theorist..

Oga travel out of your enclave and embrace exposure..

Don't say in the jungle and feel funky...
The world is civilized ...not leaving in 20 century..like you people in Nigeria...
Especially that part that claim sophistication while living in ipetu modu..or ijesha..

Go and arrest them..
Think your government mandate German government to arrest those in Germany..even claim..the German government has arrested them...

How I wish it's possible to take the whole Nigerians out of Nigeria to spend just two weeks in a develop country and bring them out.

It will help reset lots of damaged brains....

Believe me.

From your statement I don't think you are in any way better than those you are criticizing. If truly you have gone out of Nigeria I expect you not to have gotten involved in this tribal nonsense. A well educated and travelled person is always very reasonable.

Nigerians are hungry because Nigeria is poor. I know people will say that Nigeria is rich because we have oil, but the truth is you cannot build prosperity on primary resources especially for a population of almost 200 Million people without you having problems. Oil accounts for 80 percent of our revenues but generates less than 1 percent of total employment. What naturally happens in such a situation is that you have a government with enough money from oil and politicians Jostling for power for the control of the money,especially given a country where one's access to government guarantees one's access to wealth. Nigerian leaders are never going to be responsible and accountable because they don't live off the Nigerian people's labour. It is not the taxes we pay that sustains their flamboyant lifestyle, but the revenues from oil. So you don't expect such people to be responsible.

Nigerians are animals. None of the religions over which they are killing themselves originated in Nigeria. Animals are better than Nigerians.They are foolish people.

4gunners:
Though I do not agree with Reno as to why Buhari was not there. G7 summit, I believe is for certain 7 countries in which Nigeria is not inclusive.

But on the other hand, let be sincere, which intellectual contribution do you expect from our Mr President if he is actually present at the summit. Can he engage in intellectual discourse? Won't it be Femi Adesina's write up that he will read?

There are many things you don't know. G7 is not for intellectual discussion.for your information almost all the G7 leaders are not intellectual,they are just politicians. If you want intellectual discurse it is either you go to the University or attend a think tank. For you to have ignorantly said that is Buhari going to read paper written by Adeshina shows how poor in education you are. Presidents all over the world have speech writers, so it is not something peculiar to Nigeria. For Buhari, however the hatred most people have for him, to have led Nigeria two times show the man is far much smarter than most Nigerians who think they are educated. You just have to give to the man for achieving his dream by becoming Nigerian president having made attempts about four times. Buhari has created his history and written his name in Nigerian history, what will be your own history?

To think that Nigeria problem is its current leadership is obviously misleading. Nigerian greatest problem is inability of its youths to think. I must confess that majority of Nigerian youths are too irrational and ill-informed to be called human beings. No nation becomes developed when the majority of its citizens are foolish.

G7 is a group of countries who think they are more developed than the rest of the world. These countries are ;USA, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, Britain and Italy. The leaders of these countries meet annually to wine and dine together. Over the years the G7 has not really achieved anything leading many to argue that the gathering of G7 leaders is just a jamboree. In this regard the G20 is really more important because it involves the second largest economy, China.

Concerning the non invitation of Nigerian president, I don't think that should be a big issue for anybody. Nigeria has been invited before and even those African countries invited were there to drink wine and to shake hands with G7 leaders as nothing concrete is going to happen. There are many important world leaders who do not consider the G7 very important and don't feel the need to attend. The forum on China and Africa cooperation is most important for Africa than the irrelevant G7.The last time the forum was held in Beijing, China promised to give African countries 60 billion dollars in aid to revamp the continent's poor infrastructures.

Chicastle:
you won't shut up there? are you educated than kanu? How many minister or both past and present President is more educated than him? You think he don't know what he says? or you think he just wakes up and start speaking? If so, how come they don't arrest him there? He speak what you consider evil but yet he walks free there does that tell you anything?

But some of kanu statements are irrational.

gypsey:
Don't mind them Ignoramuses. they have been brainwashed to believe that a president is Invincible.

Kennedy was attacked and killed in America. Presidents are human beings and they can be attacked and possibly killed.If ipob want to kill buhari they should do it in Nigeria where the president spends most of his time instead of making empty threat of wanting to attack buhari in Japan, a highly secured country with some of the best security technologies. I will have taken ipob threat seriously if its members have carried out any attacks on government infrastructures in Nigeria. Ipob members are paper tigers. They don't seem to understand what they are fighting for. They also seem to be poorly educated and I don't think such unintelligent people can lead the igbo to liberation.

proeast:


My dear, Japan is the most civilized country in Asia. Their civil right record is on the same level with the Western World. The worst that would happen would be to codon off the area Buhari will be. I know Nigerian diplomats must have notified their Japanese counterparts of IPOB threat already because they know it is real.

I'm only concerned of the multiplier effect because once Buhari is disgraced in Japan his almajiris will be used to cause riots and Nigeria will go up in flames. Now, that is actually what IPOB wants

The threat is not real. If ipob really means anything they should have started it in Nigeria. They are just playing.

I have never seen a man as deluded and stupid as kanu. Let him continue chasing shadow.

Rollins777:
They went to discover him, they also can discover such age with such profile from other region but the northern will never do that been it is the government for the Fulanis.


Did you see his impressive profile.
Sometimes we need to look beyond tribe to get things done.

U had better focused on your life and stop this useless tribalism. Life is more personal than collective.

Glink2018:


Nah ruse... There are better IT guru in Nigeria than him.
I dare him to compete globally...
Nah power of aboki dey work in every sector.
Can you imagine the average CV in our IT sector....
Let him compete in Google or Microsoft and see if he will be hired. ..

I spit!

How many of those IT gurus do you know? Must every IT guru work for the government? The fact that a person is appointed to lead an organization doesn't mean he is the most qualified person but the fact remains that not all qualified persons will be appointed. The problem most of you have is that the young man is not from your tribe.

RTSC2:

There are people with better profiles though and from under represented places in Nigeria.
The buhari strategy is simple.

Appoint northerners where ever possible. If they have a decent profile, even better.
It means there is no hope of southern consideration for that position.

If a qualified southerner is going to be appointed, is the person going to be u or from your family? Why do u cry over what is not your problem? Nigerians are the most foolish people on earth. Continue to groan over what will not bring food to your table.

krendo:
There is no justice in the Nigerian courts

The courts are making it pointless for people to come to her

Anarchy will befall Nigeria soon

We don't have court of justice in Nigeria.What we have instead is court of law. To get justice in a court of law you will have to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt.

crackhouse:
Used and dumped. That's nice.

How was she used and dumped? She would thank her luck for being considered to serve. Before now did you know or hear about her?

The World Bank is also a fraudulent organizations. The difference between the World Bank and Chinese companies in Nigeria is that while the Chinese have something to show for their alleged fraud, the World Bank absolutely has nothing to show for all the money it is pumping into the country.

SoNature:


Your problem is just jealousy!

Perhaps you prefer a man of 100 years.

Old men have been ruling this country for God knows how long.

What exactly did they achieve?

Governor Makinde is gradually becoming the cynosure of all the eyes, and his policies will potentially change the face of governance in Nigeria.

Well done, Sir

The young commissioner should bring his energy, commitment and creativity to this position..

Now, he has the privilege many of us wish we had!

I have a friend who is now in governor akeredolu government. The guy is very young and I have not seen the difference he has made. Politics in Nigeria is not what most people think. Age is not the problem, our problem is backwardness. The backwardness is so deep that no individual can make a difference in the shortest time possible. There is a commissioner in ondo state who is also a youth. In the first two years into his job, this guy already has property worth millions of naira. Everybody in Nigeria is looking for money. And it is only by becoming a commissioner that you can make a contribution to your society, you can contribute by engaging in community work. There are so many things you can do for your community without being elected or appointed into government.

[quote author=KingGBsky post=81414314]Just be there arguing about his hair, looks and that he is too young. France president is a 33years old man. You will be here and that dude would become a commissioner. APC and PDP had formatted our youths brain finish to essence that they don’t just know what they actually want[/quote



















U are a bloody liar. macron is 42 years old. It doesn't matter the ages of individuals who occupy positions of authority in Nigeria, the fact is we don't have what it takes to build a modern and prosperous society. Nigerians are not civilized enough to understand what development means or how to approach it. ]

Nigerians behave more like savages the Europeans called them,even including those on nairaland. I can even say those on nairaland are more barbaric than the less educated ones.

There's is nothing special about the US except that it has both created and stolen enough wealth for its citizens.Apart from this the US government is as corrupt as any typical Third World country. Can a country that deceived its citizens into believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction thereby justifying a military campaign that wasted both human and financial resources be said to be transparent? Up till now the US is still blocking the international criminal court to open investigation into the possibility of crime against humanity commitment by US military during the invasion of Iraq. The US is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and this corruption and abuse of power by US politicians continues unabated thanks to a population who has been brainwashed into believing that the US is the best country in the world.Can a country whose the power of rich gun dealers have made it almost impossible to end gun violence be said not to be corrupt? There is little difference between elections in the US and elections in Nigeria. Politicians do all kinds of rubbish to win elections in the US and some like the late John McCain spend decades in the US Congress.Although there's is no denying the fact that Nigeria is stinkingly corrupt,but the US is also corrupt except that it is a developed country.

Chuksmonika:
is it by force to be one?...what is all these na?...ipob says that igbos want to secede from Nigeria,that they no longer feel safe in Nigeria,or the zoo as it were......what any responsible country would do or even UN would do is to conduct a supervised referendum to find out if indeed majority of igbos want to go,But No,they wont,they want to keep a group of injured people in a country against their own wish,My Brother i would want to believe you are a man of conscience,Now tell me if the igbos are being treated right in Nigeria,especially under this current government?

It seems you are a child. Are igbos denied the right to use their language? Are the igbo states of the federation denied their statutory allocations? What treatment is meted out to igbos that is different from what is meted out to other ethnic groups? Are more roads constructed in other parts of the country than those constructed in your region? Disaffected politicians are busy using alleged case of igbo marginalization to boost their political chances and you are here crying about mistreatment. The only marginalization that is real in Nigeria is the marginalization of the poor by the rich. Even if an igbo man becomes the president that will not change your fortune except and only if you are connected to him. No president will allocate more money to a particular region than it is currently allocated.If that is the case bayelsa state ought to have turned to Dubai in the wake of Jonathan's presidency.