₦airaland Forum

Ibb still has influence oh.

The rich flaunting unexplainable wealth.

A big blessing in the hands of few cursed persons.

If we dig OP's profile he hasn't visited any of the ten unis listed save for Kwara State Uni.

No Paragraphs.

Another tribal threads arrives.

That;s cos they believe in getting things done anyhow.

ghostofsparta:
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Good morning.

Nigerians and needless noise-making . . . like 5 & 6.

Hard times calls for harder measures .......

You can say Ortom is incompetent but the Fulani influence within our defense structure is hard to overcome for a minority tribe or people. After Benue, it could be Ijaw's rich and fertile land next. Every other tribe must team up to stop Fulani men from all over North Africa from over-running Nigeria gradually. We have no border up north.

As it stands PYO is assisting PMB as the President instead of replacing him in the meantime.

The privatization didn't give room for competition, they simply created regional monopoly and expected privatization to work like it does in the pages of textbooks.
Imagine Fashola can't deliver common prepaid meters because it leaves the 'cabals' with very little margin of loot. This country is a like 57 year long comedy clip played in slow motion.

Hmmm. What do born-to-rule people have 2 say about this?

The human mind is wonderful. I pray they see reason to leave

Can cultism help one avoid being enchanted or fortify one from ritualist?

Abracadaba Logic. They are enjoying the estimated billing. The man lied like 10 times.

Blue3k2:
Nigerians are too full of excuses it's disgusting. Nigeria is 6 most populous nation in world. There's only a few other place to compare it to. This type of thinking holds us back.

You dont need size to compare nations development.

PapaBrowne:
Super Intelligent Piece. Mr Singz, where have you been?? You remind me of days when Nairaland still had intelligent contributors.

True federalism is the only fix that would cure the ailment called Nigeria. While we all complain and say corruption is the cause of our problems, we always fail to understand what the cause of the corruption is.

To help understand the problem with our system, I'd give a simple narrative.
Imagine in a city, there are 10 supermarkets scattered across the city selling different goods and services.
They stock their shelves according to the needs of their customers, train their staff on quality customer service, fix prices reasonably to ensure the are competitive, create an ambient environment to attract customers and a whole lot other things.The do all this to ensure the keep making good money.

Then one day, the authorities decide that henceforth, all the supermarkets would remit all their sales to a central pool, from whence the monies would be shared at the end of the month first equally to all supermarkets and then according to the number of staff you have. It doesn't matter what you sell, you just simply go at the end of the month to pick up your entitlement according to the new formula.

Now tell me what would happen to the 10 supermarkets? The would simply go on an employment spree! And that would be the death kneel of all the supermarkets in the city. And that's the story of Nigeria that you just narrated!!

If a state generates power above 10MW, it has to be pumped into the national grid to be shared equally
throughout the federation.
If a state attracts investors, there is no tax benefit to it except PAYE taxes which of course would be negligible in such instances.
A state cannot improve its security as it doesn't control the police force.
The state cannot build a port, a railway or an airport. Where it does, it has to hands everything over to the federal government.
The most stupid is the whole concept of Federal Roads. A state cannot fix a road built b the feds without express permission of the the feds.

The structure surely is the problem!!

Brilliant analogy!
Add the subsidy of dollar that's killing our local industries to this analogy and you realize our economy is a form of civil war against the major oil producing regions.

omohayek:

But the literacy rate in the southern part of the country is near 90%, and even among the older generations it is still >80%. This is far higher than it used to be in the days when Nigeria earned most of its export income through agriculture.

The real problem is that literacy is no use to a farmer if he still can't get any loans to improve his productivity, if he can't get his goods to market on time for lack of decent trains or roads, if he can't move up the value chain for lack of electricity, and if his income from exporting (or even selling to the domestic market) is reduced because of a stupid "strong Naira" policy. I haven't even mentioned the security challenges farmers face with nomadic pastoralists who want to feed their cows for free on the fruits of the farmers' hard work.

The literates of nowadays are barely literates. Low quality education hardly counts as education in the face of (global) competition.

As far as power outage problem is concerned any move that doesn't result in extra 5,000MW in four years is crappy news. What's the use of generating power and forcefully transmitting it over the whole National Grid in the name of 'one Nigeria' when we know where power is needed most and where the gas to fire power plants is readily available.

Stupid threads everywhere. People prefer to fight over the land that will outlive them instead of improving their lives by being proactive in politics. Won't be surprised if the OP is a northerner trying to advance the usual divide and rule stragegy.

Nigerians and chaotic ways. Like 5 & 6.

If true then we don't only lack good medical equipment but also lack good and trusted doctors.

Same way the northern pple r ready to die of hunger while dominating infidels, their leaders are ready to die ruling the infidels.

Technical adviser? Another post for political gratification?

What of the problem of illiteracy. Farmers hardly catch up with latest trends in farming and end up with exports that violate the ever changing.

Also there is the problem of value addition.
We have excellent raw cocoa but end up exporting it to merchants who process them and resell to us for a significant profit.
It applies to many other raw materials like cashew, groundnut, yam(yam is hot in asia). Cassava, corn.
Imagine we have corn but barely have enough cornflakes because it is too complex for us to produce, whereas we have custard power everywhere because it is easier to produce.