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We need to keep drumming this into the minds of nigerians. It is not rocket science.

Please no open gutters, sand on streets
You need walkways with landscaping,
No fences around buildings
Marked roads with minimum of 3 lanes
Street lights, traffic lights
Well designed covered drainage
Everywhere needs to be scaped and paved
No open soil
Every plot/building should have a minimum of 30 percent land area dedicated to greenery.
Plant 2 or 3 trees per house
Build hundreds massive parks distance of 5km max apart
Doing these will bring more life to whatever architectural designs you come up with.

Why do i look at the map and think Lord Lugard..

Pro 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Proverbs 29:2
“When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”

Instead of Enyeama to receive sense and join him...

Various forms of gambling are not the way to go and has no place in the kingdom of God. A word is enough for the wise

true2home:
What the Op is blinded by is the fact the US and other Western countries use African to develop their country period. Slavery developed all the country you are showing here today. Go back into history and show me this same countries before slavery!!!

The problem I see is with the Citizen of Nigeria. The OP is a perfect example; quick to find problem and lack knowledge for solution. Nigerians are the most educated but their education is to be professional slave to the less educated around them. Their degrees are for gaining employment and bragging; never innovate, create, manufacture or establish anything meaningful in their society.

Those claiming that the country is not supportive of their knowledge failed to realize that the country was just put together for the benefit of another country. As not to be blinded as the OP, I will suggest my SOLUTION as a patriotic Nigeria:

We need a country to start with. Are we really a country? In my observation, the answer is NO. Igbo don't believe they are Nigerian. Yoruba and Hausa will never trust Igbo with Power, but yet they want to say these people are also Nigerian. I was shocked when most Yoruba I asked if they will support an Igbo President said capital no!!! I'm Yoruba by the way. I've always believed we are one Nigeria; I find out am totally wrong

My solution is simple, we all need to be Patriotic Nigerian. Work honestly for the development of the country.

IF YOU ARE AN ENGINEER, EXECUTE YOUR CONTRACTS TO THE WORLD STANDARD

IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR, DO YOU BEST TO SAVE LIFE; MONEY SHOULDNT BE A BARRIER TO TREATING PATIENTS

IF YOU ARE AN INSPECTOR, ACTUALLY DO YOU JOB AND MAKE SURE THE RIGHT EQUIPEMENTS ARE WHERE THEY SHOULD BE

A JUDGE SHOULD DO HIS JOB WITH HONESTY

POLICE SHOULD LEAVE #20 ALONE AND STOP KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE, RATHER, DO THEIR JOB

so, we all need to just do our jobs and the country will develop immediately. Dubai made that decision few years back and they become the toast of the world today.

How does being Yoruba dwelling amongst other tribes stop you from developing Yorubaland? What are state governors doing?

The problem is lack of will.

It's like Nigerians are not seeing the need to develop. Even Africa is leaving the country behind.

whirlwind7:
While I agree with you, one thing you should know is, most of those trees you are referring to were planted. Caucasians make it a point to plant trees around their homes.
Those tree lined boulevards and avenues were planned. The trees didn't just appear. Those seemingly natural aerial views are mostly landscaped with carpet grasses and selected trees.

I'm not excusing Nigeria's situation, mind you. Those treeless and dusty looks are eyesores.

I am with the OP. It seems we share the same frustrations with Nigeria.

@delibrate landscaping and planting of trees - THAT IS THE POINT! - Build up your environment.

It is not about comparing with the US. Check out Nairobi, Kigali, Cape town, Dar es Salaam, Abidjan

New towns are springing up in the developed countries with plans to build hundreds of parks. Our city masterplans are outdated and either nonexistent or not enforced.

That was lagos

So even internet is an issue in Naija. Is there anything that works in the country..

What..
Funke..Funke!
Apostle will hear of this..

How can this forum contribute to the development of Nigerian football in 2018?

^^Okocha was named BBC African footballer of the year at some point

Do people know or understand the 80-20 rule? If you don't you should look it up before wasting time arguing about this.

@Rossik

Look at what a white man has built and maintained in Lagos, Nigeria

These things are possible we are just lazy.

Lakowe Golf Estates

https://mixtanigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_1307.jpg

Rossikk:
Stop typing rubbish. Nigerian/West African soil is very unfriendly to grass. In Europe and other temperate regions you don't even need to plant any grass before it grows. All you have to do is trim and cut. That's why everywhere is covered on grass as a lawn, or there's a pavement/road, and very little sand to see. It is about soil type.

It's not about West African soil. The sand/dirt in many Nigerian cities is combination of environment, neglect, irresponsible planning/construction, underdevelopment and poor maintenance.

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire is relatively neat and lush compared to Lagos. It's the standards of development that is upheld while constructing and building these cities that will affect neatness. If we had nice layouts with parks, grass, concrete, sidewalks with zero tolerance to dirt, where would the sand come from?

Rossikk:
It is EXPENSIVE and highly time consuming to maintain a lawn in Nigeria. Look, you can have issues with Naija, but just leave this one out of it. Our climate does not support it. Look how hard we struggle to keep even stadium grass level. You think it's because we don't know how to water grass? It's because of the climate, dude. I think these days they import special grass seedlings for those stadia which is why they look much better nowadays.

Part of this issue we need to know how to solve problems with technology.

Egypt and Algeria are in desert regions. How come they are able to maintain their pitches in Stadiums? Of course they use synthetic pitches.

There are lots of places in the middle east and Asia that are not arable but with technology they have been able to water continuously their farms to produce food.

Icon79:
Yea. I don't think that they are taking us too serious. But I would definitely be watching those two games. Mexico actually plays a little similar to Nigeria tho.

And by the way, any info on Iceland friendly schedules? That's one team I would be interested to watch since they are the dark horse of the group.



O pari

How does Mexico play similar to Nigeria?

Croatia are going to play an African team as the world cup approaches

it is your haccent

Nigerians will say 'boga'

Nigeria Results in 1998

Nigeria vs Germany 0-1
Nigeria vs Yugoslavia 0-3
Nigeria vs Holland 1-5
Nigeria vs Spain 3-2
Nigeria vs Bulgaria 1-0
Nigeria vs Paraguay 1-3
Nigeria vs Denmark 1-4
Nigeria vs Catalonia 0-5

Was this team overrated or what?

Akara = fried mashed beans
Moi Moi = boiled (or baked) mashed beans

Mujtahida:
whether this is a realistic appraisal of our team( which i feel it is not) or hubris speaking i'd love for us to shove some sand into this coach's mouth when we meet them.

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Croatian Coach On Nigeria : Iwobi & Moses Too Similar, No World-Class Players
Published: December 23, 2017
Croatian Coach On Nigeria : Iwobi & Moses Too Similar, No World-Class PlayersCroatian manager Tomislav Obradovic has predicted that Croatia will overcome Nigeria when both teams face off in the World Cup on Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad on June 16, and has stressed that there are several players with the same characteristics in the Super Eagles squad.

Obradovic was coach of the Rwandan U20 National Team for two and a half years, and he almost qualified the country for the 2009 Fifa U20 World Cup.

Asked to compare Nigeria's offensive players Iwobi and Chelsea's Victor Moses, Obradovic told Sportske Novosti: ''Compare all of them with their characteristics? Everyone is similar and quick, good within a group. But where are the world-class players?

''It's probably quite enough, but as a team I do not think they have world-class quality. Why do I say that? They have too many players with the same characteristics.

''They can not beat Croatia. Not in one segment of the game. Neither technical, tactical, nor organizational, nor in any sense. ''

Tomislav Obradovic warned the Croatian team that Nigeria's counter attack can be dangerous because they have fast players.

''The only way they can outsmart us is if they threaten us from the counterattack because they have such players, quick, fast.

''We have to hold the ball, wait and play our organized football because we are better, disciplined, stronger on the ball, better one on one ''

Igho Kingsley

Source: Allnigeriansoccer.com

I am sorry for this guy. I was just laughing at the ''all our players are similar'' comment. He will know who the Super Eagles are when we play them in June.

darkelf:
Abi oo. I wanted to say so but was scared of some forum members coming for my little head.

As good as he is Omeruo makes at least one costly mistake per game. In the last 5 or so games he has feature. A hand ball in the box against Argentina in the recent friendly was ignored by the referee. We cannot afford to take risks at the WC.

Why do Nigerians know nothing about Walkways and Landscaping culture?

Pitch pitch pitch
That's my only concern


Look at where Nigeria plan to play the friendlies

http://.com/poor-abuja-national-stadium-pitch-angers-football-fans

This is why I laugh when people complain about our fifa rankings. The rules are there for people to see yet every month I hear people including top personalities in NFF say we don't know why fifa is ranking us low. Do we have someone in the NFF or technical committee overseeing match data and stats?

mazimee:
All of them seems to be talking about our speed and physicality, If this was such a huge advantage, why havn't we gone far in the World Cup? Abi we developed this quality over night.

Physicality can be an advantage if applied effectively. Germany is a team that uses this together with being tactical and technical. We used this against Argentina and destroyed them with only 5 shots on target. African teams are physical but not as intelligent or efficient thus a lot of running often leads to nowhere.

Abusule007:
Argentina is not a technical side?

It's a technical side not a physical one.

realpoacher:
Have you forgotten the other line they used?

We are too slow, a fast pace team will tear us apart

Zambia 1:2 Nigeria (first time fast), Nigeria 1:0 Zambia (second time faster)

We haven't face a physical and technical side yet. Ex: Germany, France, England

When one is sick then the person will know all food is bad for you. Thank God for good health and enjoy food responsibly.

This team will chop cane

Joebie:
I want to believe this is the same player in UAE 2013 who was always caught by the camera with his funny expressions celebrating our goals from the bench, especially in that final game against Mexico. I stand to be corrected.

Yes. He has grown.