[quote author=thebosstrevor post=80901866]you are not shia group

Sowore and his group are all fraudsters with red caps.

che guevara was a revolutionist and never lived a comfortable life during the struggle.

All these so called Nigerian revolutionists are just hungry for Public Show, they love the circus so much..show men i call them















Don't mind these lazy human beings. I doubt they understand the meaning of revolution. Do they think revolution means coming out to protest in order to become popular ? They should read about Chinese, Russian and Cuban revolutions. People who cannot survive two hours of intense police crackdown are shouting revolution. They should read the works of Che Guevara, Lenin and Mao for an idea of what revolution means. Better still they should ask the Houthi rebels in Yemen what revolution means. Lazy people who should be on the farm working to provide food for their families are shouting revolution. If they know what revolutionaries went through in Russia, China, Cuba,Vietnam,North Korea and several other countries where revolution happened, they won't be shouting.

Eagleboney:
Again and nothing has been done by the government, Nigeria government sef if this were to be an American citizen south Africa would have heard something Nigeria government is just playing with politics with the life of the citizens

So Nigeria should have bombed South Africa for the incident?

Vaxt:
may all the things we re facing in this country start happening around you and your family both unborn

What are you facing? Nairaland has now become a platform for children.

lexy2014:


D definition of indiscipline that u gave, is that d universal, dictionary definition or meaning of indiscipline? Or that is just u giving d word ur own meaning in other to justify ur line of argument which u no is flawed?

I didn't ask u if Fulani, Yoruba or igbos are tribes or whether they kidnap or not. What I asked is this: "Was d killings carried out by herdsmen not capable of causing anarchy? How did buhari handle it?"

I also asked u this which u avoided answering:

"Since u say buhari is working, kindly itemise d things he is doing that will make Nigerians value him after 2023".

What do you expect Buhari to have done? Are you expecting him to have made Nigeria the greatest country in the world? What can you remember any Nigerian leaders for?

kurupt1:
All these low iq people sef.what do you mean by condemned end of the country? Well.....I don't blame you,it's Lord lugards fault that we share the pseudocountry with you.

It wasn't Lugard's fault. Blame your ancestors for not being able to have developed an advanced polity with the necessary military means that would have kept the British colonial invaders at bay. Your ancestors backwardness necessitated colonial rule. Lugard did what was in the colonial power's interest by merging you together.

Many Nigerians are too lazy to read. I will advise them to read about Russian and Chinese revolutions .Revolution is not something that people come online and announce to become celebrities.Revolution is the deadliest thing you can imagine. I have been studying the Chinese revolution from my undergraduate days up to this present moment. I have read books written by some of history greatest revolutionaries like Mao Zedong, Lenin, Trotsky and Che Guevara to get an idea of what revolution actually means and how it can be prosecuted. The Chinese revolutionaries ,under the leadership of mao Zedong, fought for almost 40 years to defeat the Cheng Kai chek led KMT before the later retreated to Taiwan. No one should confuse a revolution with a mere street protest. Revolution is an armed struggle to change a political system to replace it with a more superior system. It is a matter of life and death situation. And those who are not convinced of the superiority of the political ideal they wish to impose on their people cannot do a revolution. Perhaps Sowore should have better named his alleged revolution a protest.

Nothing can be done to cure the backwardness of sub-Saharan African nations. We are at least 300 to 400 years behind the least developed country in the developed world. Those who are protesting today also want to be part of the ruling elite so that they too can have access to the nation's wealth. Well, there is nothing wrong with that afterall life is all about struggle. But they should be prepared for stern resistance from those who currently control the system. I also want to be part of the ruling elite because I have realized that Nigeria has neither the technology nor the money to create wealth for the great majority, hence, the struggle for the little ones nature has blessed us with. For those who are criticizing let them continue with their criticism,those who are enjoying the wealth will continue to enjoy.

seguntijan:
Corruption has grown to be an Ideology in Nigeria.

Any revolution in Nigeria would create a new type of corrupt system.

Those craving for revolution are the unfavoured class, they are singing: " "Do something new in my life'

Those against revolution are the favoured, their song is simple: "It shall be permanent, what the lord has done for me, it shall be permanent*

Whereas, some of us are at the centre of the Spectrum, whether revolution or not, we just need our share of the large cake, whether revolution or reforms.

Why I now say , corruption is ideological is that the two cries or songs are products of interest

U are a realist .

seguntijan:
Corruption has grown to be an Ideology in Nigeria.

Any revolution in Nigeria would create a new type of corrupt system.

Those craving for revolution are the unfavoured class, they are singing: " Do something new in my life

Those against revolution are the favoured, their song is simple: It shall be permanent, what the lord has done for me, it shall be permanent

Whereas, some of us are at the centre of the Spectrum, whether revolution or not, we just need our share of the large cake, whether revolution or reforms.

Why I now say , corruption is ideological is that the two cries or songs are products of interest

What do you understand by the term revolution?Do you people know what u are saying?

chariisGRACE:


Please can you recommend a witchcraft that can take out of this country permanently ?


Nigeria is still trekking on barefoot in this age, while other nations are flying.

what a pity.

PS: I really need that witchcraft

How many nations have u visited?Some of u will just come online and be saying nonsense.

Sowore who participated in last elections is now describing himself a pro democracy and human rights activist, wonder shall never end. Nigerian youths are just too unreasonable to understand the politics Sowore is playing . There are no such things as pro- democracy and human rights activism.Politicians who want to occupy positions of authority but unable because they can't compete with more powerful politicians for the same positions find it more convenient to turn political activism to sway the the gullible masses. Bola Tinubu, during the days of the military, described himself a pro democracy and human rights activist to get the sympathy of the people. What then happened after Tinubu achieved his dream? There is no way Sowore can out compete the bigger politicians for the top job in the land judging from the complex nature of Nigeria. Sowore should have started his political career from his home town for people to know his leadership capacity instead of the presidency.Nigerian democracy is very expensive and Sowore doesn't have the money to compete with the big guns in the system which explains why he has resulted to political activism to get sympathy. He knew he would be arrested and he wanted it to happen so that he could become more popular for future elections. It is just a game for more future votes.

PennywysCares:
you mean Cambridge is not capable of forging a certificate or they can't forged a certificate for a president who is desperate in need of a paper to present just to redeem himself from the perpetual shame of a truth that he is an illiterate without legit certificate.

You are only contradicting yourself. No possession of required educational qualifications doesn't mean that the president is illiterate.Literacy means ability to read and write in any language. I doubt if you know the meaning of literacy.

[quote author=coming2america post=80860792]Sowore wants to lead a revolution, Days of Rage, a mass action movement against the goverment of the day, to protest goverment atrocities, ineptitude, inefficiency, ethnic jingoism or general inactivity as permeates the body polity today.

Noble initiative, noble cause, if led by an altruistic person. But is Sowore? Does he see himself as a revolutionary or freedom fighter? Is he a modern day Jenkhis Khan, Atila the Hun, Nelsen Mandela or just a rabble rouser?

We no longer even see Sowore as an activist, these days, no matter his pretensions and protestations to the contrary. We rather see him as a renegade, a rebel without cause, a sophist who has fallen out with his former friends and is now out to spite them, while also making a name for himself.

In Sowore's mind, he hopes to inspire a crtitical mass to escalate this protest he is championing, to become the sub saharan version of the Arab Spring.

He sees himself as the the modern day hero, like the San Cullote of the French revolution, who brought down a goverment while protesting for bread, Sowore imagines he can inspire change, bring about radical reform in a unstable economy and perhaps even bring about sudden change of goverment through popular revolt of the people.

Sowore has followed the story of the 22 year old Sudanese girl in Khartoum who toppled a 30yr old regime by standing up to wage protests and told himself, why not me?

If days of protests with multitudes led by a little girl forced Omar Mohammed Al Bashir to adbidcate in sudan, why cant it be done in Nigeria, backed by my Sahara reporters and extensive media reach?

He wants to become the modern day Rosa Parks in Nigeria, a woman who closed the racial cleavages of America by simply refusing to give up her bus seat in America's deep south.

Sowore hopes to enter history books by being like the grocer who triggered the Arab Spring in the streets of Tunis by dousing himself in gasoline and burning himself, setting the stage for oppressive regimes of the Magreb to start falling like a pack of cards.

Sowore wants to achieve all this via a facebook proclamation, without the self immolation though and without personal discomfort either, perhaps safely tucked away in America.

Sowore fails to understand the most successful revolutions in history were not planned, there was no mobilizatoon, there was no coordinated media sensitization- it just happened, triggered by a very trivial event.

Anything other than this, often only results to a police action(apologies to Gowon) to quell any notions of insurrection in the minds of misguided promoters.

Behind this so called altruism of Sowore, is his own need for self deification, his burning desire to achieve immortality through the back door, using rallying call of popular revolt.

Sowore timed his call to action to coincide with the heightened tension in the capital occassioned by the El ZakZakky debacle,as the catalyst or keg of gun powder that conflagrates the situation

He wants to cash in on the Shiite protests and hopes that his 'days of rage' with Shiite sympathy and protests,will snowball into an uprising that will see this goverment scampering out of town.

What Sowore failed to achieve at the ballot, he wants to achieve in the street. There are many reasons Nigerians should protest and many people who should too, but Sowore cannot lead this charge.

Anything he does will be read through the prism of political mischief. He was an activist and had every right to lead protests and bring people into the streets, but the very minute he declared for a political party, he lost that leverage.

The very minute he appeared on the ballot to contest an election against a goverment in power, he lost the popular appeal to be able to lead people to the streets.

That he is even still fighting in court to lead his party further diminishes his credentials to be able to lead popular revolt.

5 years ago, or even 3years ago, under similar circumstances, this movement would have gained traction and gotten results.

But immediately after losing an electoral project? Naaah. Any one devoid of any political leanings can lead this charge, but certainly not Sowore.

This is the reason why this his call to action will go unhee
























I disagree with your argument that the most successful revolutions were spontaneous. The Arab spring you mentioned of was not a revolution which was why it was not successful for reason that it was spontaneous in character. The most successful revolutions in human history were the Russian revolution of 1917 and Chinese revolution of 1949.Both these revolutions were planned for and guided by the finest socio-economic theories available at the time. The leaders of these revolutions were some of the finest revolutionaries ever to walk on the surface of the planet. Leaders like V. I. Lenin, Leo Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, zhou Enlai and several others .They wrote and actively participated in the organization of their countries' respective communist parties which served as the vehicle for organizing a society. No nation can have a successful revolution without planning for it unless we are equating a mere social uprising with revolution. A revolution has be to Planned for and led by the most intellectually endowed individuals in a society and not the kind of mob uprising we witnessed in the Arab world which led nowhere . For your information, both the Chinese and Russian revolutionaries understood socio-economic history very well on which they anchored their successes . Their guiding epistemology was dialectical materialism.So without knowledge of the origin of social stratification in society, revolution cannot be successful. Revolution must also led by well read individuals who are convinced of the superioty of the new ideology they wish to see replace the existing ones. My brother revolution in the real sense of the word is not a child's play .

Yankee101:
Even China's longest bridge didn't take this long

Because China is not part of the useless global so called liberal democracy .every democracy sucks not least Nigeria. Ask the Indians how their chaotic democracy is performing in terms of building infrastructures. Even USA has not been able to complete its first high speed rail it started years ago in the state of California due to political squabbles .democracy is not good for doing things very fast.

[quote author=gidgiddy post=80845895]

Nigeria cannot be restructured. In other to restructure Nigeria, the constitution must be changed. The only place the constitution of Nigeria can be changed is the national assembly. The North is against restructuring Nigeria and they control 60% of the national assembly. It will be impossible for anybody to get two third majority vote needed to change the constitution so as to reflect restructuring.

Anyone still talking about restructuring is living in dream land.











Please don't fall for the cheap propaganda of restructuring. Let me ask u, if it becomes a reality that Nigeria is restructured, will the leaders who will lead a restructured Nigeria also restructure themselves? Where will the leaders come from? The greatest harm one can do to oneself is for one to start listening to opinions coming from our tribal leaders like afenifere, ohaenize, and the arewa socio- cultural group. These peoples are as deluded as the political leaders. They are part and parcel of the problems confronting Nigeria.

KingOdart:


You are the one that need the Hot Slap

It is a well known fact that there is part of Ijaw tribe in Ondo

Not every tribe in Ondo are Yoruba

The people who identify most as ijaw in ondo state are arugbo ijaw. Apoi of which sowore is part identify more as Yoruba than as ijaw. The have fully assimilated into the mainstream Yoruba culture and speak the yoruba language fluently.

People that should be on the farm tilling the land to provide food for themselves are shouting revolution as if they understand what revolution means. Laziness and genetic inferiority are some of the problems facing the black race. Irrespective of the short comings of our political leaders, Nigerian is still a democracy with laid down procedures for changing a government. Democracy may not be what want we need right now, but it was what majority of Nigerians clamoured for during the days of the military. What we don't understand is that no country as underdeveloped as Nigeria is will be able to develop a functioning democracy. Functioning democracy is incompatible with poverty, ignorance and underdevelopment. And for people to think that protests will make the elites give up their privileges is just forlorn. The elites will continue to dominate even if the current elites are forced to share power.

KingOdart:


Sowore is an Ijaw not Yoruba


Having a Yoruba name doesn't make him a Yoruba

Sowore is an Ijaw man and not Yoruba

The apois identify more as Yorubas than ijaws. Surely the apois have half ijaw ancestry and half Yoruba ancestry, but over the centuries, they have assimilated the Yoruba culture to the extent that they easily pass more for Yoruba than ijaw. In other words, they have been yorubanized.

Icon79:
No Army Can Stop Yorubas When They Are Ready To Fight - Yinka Odumakin

But the million dollar question is: when would the Yorubas ever be ready to fight

Answer: Never!

Case closed.



O pari

On what basis are the Yorubas going to fight? Is Yoruba a country with a standing army?So tell me the individuals who are going to do the battle .I am not ruling out some idiots who are going to kill each other on the basis of tribe, but that a tribe will declare a war on another tribe in a large scale manner is impossible unless there is a fracture in the Nigerian army with the soldiers fighting for their respective ethnicity. This was what happened in the last civil war. The disunity within the Nigerian army led Ojukwu to mobilize his kinsmen to declare biafra republic. He was able to raise a rebel group with the remnants of Nigerian soldiers in the east to fight the federal government. Without the above mentioned conditions availing themselves, no any region is going to declare a war on another region. Odumakin was just being childish. I don't think the man has intelligence because he talks very much like a 5 years old boy .

YorubaHero12:

Lol ask your grandfathers the input of Yorubas during the civil war and they will tell you the Yorubas are the bulk of the strategists and gallant officers that won the civil war for the federal side.

History has shown that the Yorubas are the tribe that actually fight for a cause and achieve them most times. Infact it is the Yorubas that has shown the highest form of bravery and we don’t run away from fight like your Ojukwu of unblessed memory.

If a war breakout in Nigeria and the Yorubas are on the other side fighting the north, then the north is in soup.

We have the sea to bring in ammunitions, we have the expertise to deploy strategies and tactics to treat the northerner fuckup. We are situated at the border linking the Atlantic so it will be hard for the north to conquer us Caz it’ll be hard to reach lagos which will be the weapon facility. We can solicit for allies and use our link on the world stage to get other superpowers to our side.

If the north make a mistake of going to the war with the Yorubas involved, then the stupid myth that the Fulani is indispensable and brave will be debunked and they will be massacred with air raids.

The northerners are only dominating Nigeria political space with their population just because of the rubbish democracy we are practicing. They have no expertise, tactics, coz war is not about foot soldiers alone it is more than that.

Have you fought in a war before? I pity you for your ignorance. A mere violence involving two ethnic groups killing each other on a small scale is quite different from a war. The south west cannot fight the north because both regions are not countries. The south west can only fight the federal government if and only if a rebel group springs up and begins to fight for independence. I laugh at people 's ignorance when they say one region will declare war on another region. It doesn't happen like that. You can only have ethnic violence which will be suppressed by the security forces.

Daviddson:
I think the only sets of people who the Hausa and Fulani oligarchy are afraid of in Nigeria are the Yoruba people and the Niger Delta. As for me, they're the ones who can boldly start a war before other southern tribes may gather liver to join. I'm not even hoping for a war, though I want Nigeria to divide. In several of the instances you mentioned, there were no tribal undertones. When Awolowo and Obasanjo were arrested, were there no Hausa, Igbos and Niger Deltan heavyweight politicians also arrested? When Obasanjo arrested al Mustapha, did the north start a war?

On what basis will Yorubas declare a war? Is Yoruba a country with a standing army? Who are the Yorubas going to fight, the Nigerian army or police? Who are the Yorubas going to do the battle? Yinka Odumakin doesn't understand what is saying. I guess he wants to be seen a hero of the Yoruba people by saying rubbish.

calculator123:

Funmi, times are hard trust me. Not everyone can afford that N700 you just looked down upon. Stroll to Lagos and see where Conductors can beat someone to pull because of N50 deficit.
Times are really hard.

Was there a time people were picking money on the ground? As far as money making is concerned every time is hard because money doesn't grow on trees.

themanderon:
That is what the nation has become under this nest of devils called APC. They promised change but tell me what has changed since this vipers bewitched the people into supporting them?
I mean PDP was bad but at least they balanced their appointments and made sure intellectuals were put in some offices.
But what do we have now? A dalung who is completely way above his below average capabilities, a fossilized lia Mohammed, an antiquated Audu Ogbe, a Sharia chief justice of the federation whose educational history is in doubt and doesn't know what technicality in law is, a President who has no mapped out strategy as to where he intends the country to be in the next few years? I mean I could go on and on and on.
By the time these devils are done with this country there may be nothing to salvage anymore.

U are just hate-filled toward either the president or his party. From time immemorial reasonable Nigerians know that everything in Nigeria is pady pady.This pady pady of a thing happens at all levels of Nigerian society with callous involvement of almost everybody. So there is nothing new about it. This pady pady of a thing also happens in developed countries, so don't have the impression that it is a Nigeria -only mentality. You just have to play a smart game so that you too can get right up there. But thinking that Nigerians will one day behave in a way that pleases you, that day may never come because humans by nature are egoistic. I was once idealistic thinking that things will one day become perfect, having suffered looking for job with all my advanced degrees and having also seen individuals who did not possess one ten of my qualifications occupying important positions in government establishments, I then began to have a rethink. In Nigeria everybody is working for himself and his family and nothing more. Imagine the changes some of these ministers will make in the lives of their family members? Good government jobs and opportunities for many other things. I am not in anyway supporting bad governance but the reality in Nigeria is you just have to fight for yourself because nobody is going to fight for u.

Nigerians and their one way of thinking. Why are we not asking who screend the senators in the first place? To contest for a seat in the Senate, one doesn't need to be a professional or having a much higher qualification which means there are some of our senators who are not all that lettered.But to be appointed a minister, one must have attained some reasonable level of education which means the education requirements for a ministerial position is superior to that of a senatorial seat. I am not trying to imply that we don't have individuals in the Senate who are well read, even far read more than some of the incoming ministers,but the underlying issue is so many of our senators are not qualified enough to ask the prospects ministers questions. Or what questions do expect from a person who only has the normal secondary school Certificate?

Studyinchina200:
Na north Dey hold Nigeria back.

It is not the case that anybody is holding anybody back.All the tribes in Nigeria are backward.

Predstan:


More landmass and with more resources. 90bn dollars stolen by one of your people will provide the basic 24/7 Electricity. You are proud to mention your population as the hinderance to progress and have forgotten that China, a country in the same state as yours 10 years ago with more than 5times population is now doing fine. India was known as the capital of poverty but you overtook India with more people in extreme poverty than a population of above 1billion.

If you can't compare Nigeria with the East African Countries, then you should compare them with China and India. Tell me if you doing better than them after all, your population is less than that of China.

If RWANDA with less population could be doing better than Nigeria x Nigeria should be doing better than China and India

Where did you get the information that Nigeria was at the same level as China ten years ago in terms of economic development? I hate insulting people online, but I hate it also when people come online without adequate knowledge of what they are talking about. Nigerians are too ignorant and uneducated for my liking. Imagine ignorant and uneducated people shouting about revolution, the word whose meaning they do not understand .Ignorance is our biggest problem..

frowland:


Forget the China the media hogwash of 10-20yrs ago, China as a country of its own is thousands of years older than Nigeria. This is an ample time enough to fine tune their economy and all what not to what it is today.
Going by statistics available, Rwanda is NOT better than Nigeria. Are you aware than by Ratio, there are more poor people in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya than Nigeria?? More than half of the population, infact about 60% of Rwanda are living below poverty threshold.
To paint Nigeria bad, they had to do it by count to score political point because in Africa for example Nigeria have more than double the population of any country in Africa.
Lastly, the bolded comment is a fallacy. Rwanda is NOT doing any BETTER than Nigeria statistically.

Two of Nigeria's biggest problem are media and lack of education. I don't know where the media got the information that Nigeria and China were at the same level of development ten years ago. Well I don't blame the media since they know that an average Nigeria is not knowledgeable. Is it not absurb comparing Nigeria with China? Ten years ago China was already on his way to taking over from Japan as the world second largest economy.China finally became the second largest economy in 2010 .In addition to that, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations,and for that matter, the only surviving one. China invented many of the things we make use of today such as paper, printing, compass and gunpowder. China was the first true modern state with the world first modern civil service whose bureaucrats were recruited on the basis of imperial examinations. This happened more than 1500 years ago. Even in economic terms, Beijing, the capital city of China produces a much higher GDP than Nigeria.So,it is foolish for anybody to have remarked that Nigeria was at level of China's economic development ten years ago. Nigeria is a backward country with little prospect, based on our history, for economic development. The media houses are just fooling Nigerians because the owners of these organizations are politicians. We are historically backward which led to us not creating a successful civilizations based on inventions and the use of a written languages. We didn't document our history leading to the loss of some of the little achievements our forefathers made. Until and unless we find enough courage to address the issue of our historical backwardness, we will continue to move in cycle.

Newboss:


He should state his agenda explicitly, without any ambiguity. Nigerians should open their eyes and become more objective. Ain't we tired of being sheeples? Jumping from one foolish move to the other because we never think.

We're all upset about the state of the nation. Then somebody comes from somewhere shouting revolution. Some people follow him shouting revolution. Baba, what is your plan about the so called revolution? Abi your plan is spiritual? Lol. Let's be reasonable. Is the plan to get rid of Buhari? Protests will not add one MW to the grid. Protest will not reduce unemployment. Protest will not create industries. Protest will not change the corrupt average Nigerian who will even be part of the "revolution". Lol

How long are we going to keep jumping at any sound of "change"? Buhari used this same change thing to get in that year. Everyone who could think objectively could see that Buhari had nothing to offer but loud criticism.

Now, people are shouting revolution but never really ask "what's the plan?"

Provide electricity, jobs, bla bla bla. That is not a plan! That's the noise we've heard for ages.

Prayer, shouting, fasting, breaking glasses, carrying placards, etc, CAN NEVER provide electricity or jobs.

What is the plan? You want to reboot the system, abi? What's the plan?

I laugh when I hear people say they want revolution. Do they know the meaning of revolution? I guest many of the people on nairaland are kids who do not understand anything. Even Sowere who should have known better talks as though he is a child. One has to obtain a police permit before a protest can be held and I don't think he has been given the go ahead. The police have every right to declare illegal any protest held for which permission was not given. I hope people understand that.



Another thing is what is the purpose of the proposed protest?If the intention is to unseat the government, then I think Sowere doesn't know what is talking. No matter the flaws of the last elections, the government is legally constituted and if there is any grievance the court is there to attend to the aggrieved. Any agitation outside of what the law permits will be met with force.



If it is revolution in the real sense of it that Sowere wants, then he must be suffering from self-delusion. He should be asked if he knows what revolution is. Perhaps he thinks revolution is the same as mere street protest.

Predstan:


No one is finding a way to be rich. All we demand is basic Amenities. Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia all enjoy basic Amenities from Electricity to Good roads and healthcare down to a listening Government. We are not asking to be enriched. The poorest person in France enjoy these things.

Have you been to those countries you mentioned?

fkj950ax:


There aren't enough. Have you seen the States health index data? Including Almighty Abuja and Lagos...

What I said is government has no business in business. Above model of construct, and over to the private sector hasn't worked and still won't work. It won't make a dent in the States IGR.




Business people didn't build all these years because the State Government is competing with them in areas the state shouldn't.
All governors, incl Lagos State, need to get rid of multiple taxation, provide industrial parks (forget all the FTZ elephant project), then local and foreign investors will bring development

You are damn wrong with your statement that government has no business in business. This is what has created a safe haven for lazy Nigerian leaders not to do anything. American and European countries are deceiving the world in the name of so called western democracy and market economy without telling us that colonial rule and monopolisation of technology are some of the reasons behind their development. Nigeria is a typical backward country that relying solely on the so called private sector to generate needed growth will only result in more backwardness.Before the private sector can be the engine of growth, we must have overcome our historical poverty. How do you expect a people who are poor and poorly educated to generate wealth without government involvement? Do your research and you will find out that those who have big businesses in Nigeria today are either former politicians or those who have enjoyed the patronage of the power that be. It is difficult to start from nothing and become a big entrepreneur in Nigeria because most businesses in Nigeria are not based on inventions but rather on imports of Chinese goods and refined petroleum. This is why most Nigerian billionaires all have interests in oil. China is the only country that has rejected the false economic policies of the western world. The Chinese government has been proactively involved in economic development to the extent that today some of the largest corporations in China are government owned. U might have heard of Haier, Hiense, JAC motors, Dongfeng motors, Gree,Howo trucks, JMC motors, XCMG construction equipment maker, and several others.These government owned companies generate millions of employment and billion of dollars in revenues ,thereby laying the foundation for both the private sector and development of other industries. Foreign investment cannot provide the basis for the technological development of a society without the government getting involved. Over the years foreign investments in Nigeria have only been concetrated in low end manufacturing and extractive industries which cannot provide the necessary technology transfer because no country will want to transfer its high-tech technology to another on a platter of gold. I quite understand that Nigerian government is not the type that can manage business, but that is not enough reason to suggest that government has no business in business. The private sector in Nigeria is just to small to do much which necessitates a more government involvement because the government has enough money for research and creation of companies which require huge capital. But my concern is that given the attitudes and nature of our government people, you many not be far from the truth that Nigerian government should not get involved in business.

[quote author=fkj950ax post=80703053]

One of the black man's major problem. Either it's my way, or you take the highway.

It's okay, I will take the highway. Not that I cared about your businesss in the first place. Stop misleading the public with false information while doing your business.

PS. Escalator and a State built mall is not an investment. Doesn't qualify under social services which is what a government has as charter with its people.

Malls are dying all over the world. Your governors and mine are building them all over the country. Hospitals and schools aren't investment enough abi?
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Well said. But you should know that Nigerian politicians understand how we think. They will rather spend money on nonsense to earn momentous praises instead of developmental projects. What is the economic significant of building a mall in a backward country where people can hardly feed themselves? I have this conviction that we Nigerians are too uneducated and uncivilized to create a truly modern society that has its foundation on science and technology. Building malls and other cosmetic projects that our political elites are embarking on are mere false appearances of development. They are not the real development,but a way to deceive Nigerians that we are progressing. But the reality is Nigeria is a backward country with no foundation for industrial development. Without proper investment in education, health, science and technology and infrastructures ,we will continue to mistake appearances of development for development.

[quote author=SLAP44 post=80694817]This is fantastic.

I feel like shedding teats of joy. If not for PDP, these women would have departed this earth without riding a common escalator.

Umahi of Ebonyi is a total champion. [/qu






Definitely they are going to depart this world without riding a train and boarding an aeroplane.