₦airaland Forum

Kobojunkie:
I am 1000% against this. How can we sign contract with ANOTHER government to build our own schools? What is this?? What sort of "kind gesture" is this? Oh gosh!!

Beaf:
The Niger Delta oil slavery is the reason Nigeria is there.

No2Atheism:
1. I am not a politically correct person, hence i tell the truth the way it is.

2. I am not saying all readers of the original post about Nigeria are naive, instead what i am saying is that those readers who read the original post about Nigeria, then went ahead to claim there was no problem with the propaganda at the last statement of that original post, are the ones who are naive about past and present global politics, about past and present global policies, about past and present economic policies.

3. Go through all my posts on this thread you would notice that I never said Nigeria did not have problems.

4. Instead I clearly said that Nigeria had crime and corruption problems

5. I also clearly said that Nigerian crime and/or corruption problems is small compared to the global scale or seriousness of crime and/or corruption in certain Western countries like the USA and certain African countries such as South Africa. (e.g. Bernie Maddoff $50 billion ponzi scam to say the least)

6. Above all, the point I am making is that the report in question had no reason to include the statement about the crime problems of Lagos Nigeria in their report, simply because such a statement had absolutely nothing to do with the initial "terrorism" case they were trying to present with regards to their Nigerian US Embassy.

7. Hence the point I was making was that including that statement about "Lagos being riddled with Crime" is just a propaganda statement meant for ulterior motives and nothing more.

8. Then i finally went ahead to show the possible reasons why the western media has been using propaganda statements.

Thank you jare, the people that are listed made their money legitimately.

KnowAll:
IF CURRUPTION IS LEGALISED IN NIGERIA YOU AS A PERSON WOULDNT HAVE MONEY TO BROWSE IN THE CAFFEE ANY MORE


Thats why I advocate the creation of more states, if we have as many 75 states it will weaken the central, the central must be weakened in a proper federal structure. The federal goverment should hand over all these items to the states.

1. Schools - FG should not be running schools including Uni
2. Industries
3. Airports
4. Roads there should be no federal roads, state roads e.t.c there should only state roads and LG road.
5. prisons
6. police we dont need IG of police for the whole nation, what we need is IG police for each state.
7.Courts

The only thing the FG must concern herself with  immigration control, customs, armed forces, foerign affairs.


There will be a healthy rivary amongst the different states which will eventually lead to overall development of the whole nation like what happened in Europe in the 19th century . Little states Luxemborg and lichenstein created a niche markets for themselves by only concentrating on off shore financial dealings.

Little states Luxemborg and lichenstein created a niche markets for themselves by only concentrating on off shore financial dealings

strangleyo:
South Africa is slowly turning into "Africa". ~~

For the last few years I have been having this thought. Call me naive or crazy, but it seems that most of the nations we see as developed nations, have one national tongue.
Is it then probable that the sooner we shelved our local tribal languages, the better we stand to become as one united nation?

lucabrasi:
@NNENA1
what i can garner from the first part of your comment which i presume was a general comment right?is that tribalism/ethnic distrust is a major problem,and you are asking for a democracy that will address this pertinent question,if that is what you mean,then i think you should look at china,the hans are the largest with 91 or so percent while the other ethnicities all make up the rest,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China

the question,why have there not being insurrections or any war between them or one trying to wipe the other off?

this is my personal opinion from my own perspective,true and enduring patriotism.irrespective of what anyone has against china and their form of governance,one thing you can never take from them is their identity,and love for country,this is what i believe is lacking amongst nigerians,if we have a genuine love for our country,then we would cease from having ascerbic opinions of other tribes or ethnicities,the civil war has been about 30smthing years now(not sure)and the deep emotional wounds suffered by both victor and vanquished has never been adequately addressed,of course that will ingarin bitter fee;ings and mutual distrusts, that isnt the fault of democracy but not addressing a festering wound,we have allowed to deepen and worsen over the years.
as for politicians,pls dont blame them,we are also at fault in this,if we refuse bribes first we would be voting who we want in a particular post and second an aspirant will not have to sell off his property or make deals with the devil in order to attain a post,thereby having to corruptly amass wealth to pay off his debts and recover.

while the form of governance you have suggested is probably the best for us,with federalism emcompassing it,the fact of the matter is that if the underlying sympthomatic issues are not properly resolved ,then we will be left with a couple of smaller states,sabre rattling and fighting each other for superiority,with the same cabal in abuja dividing themselves along ethnic afiliations and resuming duties in their various regions,so you have an ibori and co still doing the same thing they r doing in anbuja now in the south south,you have the ibbs and co doing the same thing they r doing in abuja now in the northern region and the ngiges,egwus in the east and the yoruba akalas and co doing the same in the south west e.t.c recipe for chaos and disorder

bawomolo:
a functioning state of the time? why don't u tell susan b anthony and frederick douglas that the US was a functioning state for the "times".  The US at that time was financial and politically unstable.  Are we talking about the same US that couldn't pay its soldiers after the revolutionary war.  I really don't get your arguments, India is just as heterogeneous as Nigeria with a population of 1 billion but it still implements democracy.

democracy isn't exactly a "western" concept.

stillwater:
Definitely not erroneous. Functioning state? Some people actually didn't believe democracy would work at that time period, and it didn't stop them from protesting and engaging in riots.