₦airaland Forum

Natascha: This is in response to the man who stated that " No girl on Nairaland is finer than his girlfriend'. Well, I'm coming out, stating : Im finer! Come on ladies, do the same and share your pics! I dare you

anulaxad: SHUT UP,COWARD,WHO ARE YOU.

WHEN NIGERIA WAS FOUND,THEY FOUND WHAT NOTHING,JUST THREE YEARS BEFORE INDEPENDENCE(MONEY)OIL WAS FOUND,SOUTH AFRICA HAS ALWAYS HAD GOLD.

WE ARE POOR BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE STILL BLAMING THE BRITISH FOR OUR PROBLEMS WITHOUT NOT ACTUALLY FACING YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT. COWARD.

Rossikk: It is not being colonised that is the issue. The issue is what did the colonialists DO in the respective nations they colonised? In SOME countries they built infrastructure, schools, and created functional institutions which went on to serve those nations after independence. In OTHERS, especially the BLACK nations, all they did was loot, loot, loot and loot. In Nigeria, despite exporting hundreds of billions in today's money worth of resources from 1897 to 1960 they only built ONE university college, not even a full fledged uni. In 63 years of rule. As for roads, power etc, they did virtually nothing. In 1960, after 63 years of British rule, we generated 270 megawatts of electricity. 95 percent of Nigerians had no access to electricity. There was no national grid. Rail. Oh they built a line from Kano to the southern ports for ONE reason, ie to evacuate our resources. At independence, we were just a bush. Today we have advanced a lot and are still advancing, thanks to African rule. The EU can take their 'concern' for our 'plight' and stick it up their round holes.

Rossikk: The EU should ask their member, Britain what she did with all the monies earned from Nigerian exports from 1897 to 1960. If that money had been used to develop Nigeria rather than embezzled and used to develop England, Nigeria would have been as fully developed as South Africa at independence, and we wouldn't be having this conversation. So let them start with their own thievery. We are poor today because we are playing catch up, struggling to build things that should have been built 100 years ago.

modextus: Nigeria has no reason to be poor —EU

European Union on Tuesday identified corruption, impunity and poor resources management as causes of poverty in Nigeria.

THATS RIGHT

At a media parley in Abuja, the EU Ambassador/Head of Delegation, Dr. David MacRae, said Nigeria had no reasons to be poor with all the available resources in the country and a fast growing economy.

THATS NOT RIGHT

He said, “It would have been far better if those resources had been used to deliver basics services like education, health and infrastructure to the people. These are the things needed to be put in place.

DEPENDS

“What this country needs are jobs; jobs for the people especially young people. If young people had jobs they won’t be unnecessarily agitated and getting involved in misdeeds. But without work, without just income, and no social safety net in Nigeria, the people will continue to face poverty. Half of the population in this country are below poverty line.”

NOT TRUE

MacRae said no country with cases of human rights abuse could have a meaningful development.

THATS NOT RIGHT BECAUSE EVEN IN PLACES LIKE HOLLAND IN EUROPE THEMSELVES THEY ARE INTO AMERICAS,NOOOT JUST U.S.A(AMERICAS)!AND THEY HAPPENED!

According to him, the reported killings of innocent civilians in the recent clashes between security forces and Boko Haram and other reported violations by security forces call for concern.

He said, “The fight against terrorism must be conducted within the law rather than outside of it. Anything less is unacceptable. Those responsible for containing the crisis must act with utmost respect for the rule of law, with measures in place to ensure that the innocent and their property are protected.

“If there have been abuses of human rights or abuses of law, those who have done this should be brought to justice. This is obviously the way all civilized nations behave and we regard Nigeria as one of these.”



The EU boss lamented how poor power supply was affecting businesses in the country, adding that, government must tackle impunity for a healthy investment drive.

MacRae said the commission was ready to support Nigeria to strengthen democracy as “it is relatively new to the country.”

He added, “It is not something you can build overnight. The National Assembly has to do its job, it has to be equipped to do its job, it has to understand this role, it has to be trained to exercise its responsibilities.”

Citing the EU Independent observer which described the 2011 election as the best since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, MacRae noted that there was still room for improvement.


EUROPE IS IN PRISON CELLS


He said, “We have a situation in Nigeria. Nigeria is regarded as the leader of Africa, as the leading country in this continent, as the largest black population on earth, with the economy which is growing fast, relatively speaking, but regrettably, poverty is not diminishing in the country and jobs are not being created.”

Considering the population of Nigeria, MacRae said, there was little the union could do to help without Nigeria’s government playing its role.

THAT IS ALL

Said he, “Whatever we do without development cooperation programme can’t possibly be adequate to meet the needs of the population of that size. It is Nigeria’s own resources which must be used to build on these. We will do what we can to help especially in area of governance including effective service delivery.”

WE LOVED IT THERE!

MacRae bemoaned the high mortality rate in Nigeria describing it as worrisome, saying “more needs to be done”.

He stressed the “need for a radical shifting of resources of this country to address the basic issues for the interest of people.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/africa/nigeria-has-no-reason-to-be-poor-eu/

ShyM-X:
All this African consciousness crap that white people help to
promote is rubbish and just another way to keep the black
man alienated, in countries like USA, thus preventing him
from actively participating in personal wealth generation. How come a man immigrates from Ukraine to America and
his children, born in America, are just looked at as
Americans. No one tries to promote Ukrainian consciousness
for them? They are hardly ever asked 'where are you
originally from' or patronizingly told 'isnt the vibrant
Ukrainian culture so exciting, blah blah blah'. No one calls them eurpean american? They are just plain american! They
participate actively in the economy and politics, becoming
billionaires and senators within a generation! Man migrates from Nigeria and his children are constantly
reminded of his African roots, African consciousness and
other thrash like that which keeps him permanently
alienated, distracted and confused. When he tries to blend,
even his own black people who have been successfully
brainwashed, will label him a sell out. Leave all this rubbish, especially if you are born in America.
Get the lingo, get the education, get the money and leave
the African consciousness stuff for leisure and recreational
time.