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Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by mrvitalis(m): 10:00pm On May 28, 2021
blackpanda:
Name the section of the constitution that gives such power. Or u are just vomiting roadside gossiphuh
Which part is the least educated whovh part has more senators and states ?
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by Princedapace(m): 10:20pm On May 28, 2021
blackpanda:
Constitution does not stop u from having strong institution. Greed and corruption does!
Here is the issue bro.. In a unitary system with two or three completely different nations, it is hard to build strong institutions. It is like asking Iran and Israel to live as one United country. It is impossible becus their ideas are completely different. Now, this confrontations will leave the politicians to act unchecked becus no matter what, humans will always align with their tribe/race more.

Nigeria's biggest problem is merging north and south under a unitary structure. That was a blunder and even some white writers acknowledged it as a blunder by the British.

There is always going to instability as the major nations will contend among them selves for political might. This will surely put politics first before good leadership.

First, North and south should not be in marriage called country but if they most be, then the system should not be unitary. There is nothing federal in Nigeria. It is pure unitary that we run and u could see tribal bitterness up and down.

Let me give u one disadvantage of this our system:

In order to avoid one ethnic group from dominating the other two major ethnic groups, they introduced federal character and quota system. These systems will suppress merit and that is dangerous in a country to even have people who are not qualified to run some things.

What we play in Nigeria is ethnic politics, ethnic politics of domination in addition to two opposing religions. That is terrible. And there is nothing u can do to fix it except u practically practice a political system that grants the ethnic groups their complete self rule while in Nigeria like the UK system. Or u practice true federalism like the USA or u separate completely.

No matter how much u try, humans, humans will always align with their tribe, race, religion, etc more. Humans are naturally selfish. What we can do is to create systems to help reduce the effects of being humans.
Nigeria is made up of two opposing religions and four major opposing nations. There can never be alignments, there can never be unity of purpose, there can never be one goal and without all these things, no country can ever make it.

If u are expected humans to naturally stop being greedy and selfish, bro, u are wasting time. As advanced as Europeans are, they are still greedy and selfish. But their greed and selfishness are mainly against other races for the betterment of the UK, Norway, Australia, Germany, etc.
Some European countries would have become unstable if they merge them together with some other European country and run a unitary system like we do here. No nation, no group of nation wants to be lord over and controlled over. This is natural.

Bro, forget sentiment, u cant put two opposing religions together plus four major nations into one country under unitary system and expect that country to grow. Lie, lie.
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by okuta007: 10:28pm On May 28, 2021
PetroDolla2020:
What is this one saying? Nigeria is 3.8 times the size of Ghana. What has that got to do with Sokoto, Gongola or borno?
ok u win e don do. too much anger inside u
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by blackpanda: 5:42am On May 29, 2021
Princedapace:
Here is the issue bro.. In a unitary system with two or three completely different nations, it is hard to build strong institutions. It is like asking Iran and Israel to live as one United country. It is impossible becus their ideas are completely different. Now, this confrontations will leave the politicians to act unchecked becus no matter what, humans will always align with their tribe/race more.

Nigeria's biggest problem is merging north and south under a unitary structure. That was a blunder and even some white writers acknowledged it as a blunder by the British.

There is always going to instability as the major nations will contend among them selves for political might. This will surely put politics first before good leadership.

First, North and south should not be in marriage called country but if they most be, then the system should not be unitary. There is nothing federal in Nigeria. It is pure unitary that we run and u could see tribal bitterness up and down.

Let me give u one disadvantage of this our system:

In order to avoid one ethnic group from dominating the other two major ethnic groups, they introduced federal character and quota system. These systems will suppress merit and that is dangerous in a country to even have people who are not qualified to run some things.

What we play in Nigeria is ethnic politics, ethnic politics of domination in addition to two opposing religions. That is terrible. And there is nothing u can do to fix it except u practically practice a political system that grants the ethnic groups their complete self rule while in Nigeria like the UK system. Or u practice true federalism like the USA or u separate completely.

No matter how much u try, humans, humans will always align with their tribe, race, religion, etc more. Humans are naturally selfish. What we can do is to create systems to help reduce the effects of being humans.
Nigeria is made up of two opposing religions and four major opposing nations. There can never be alignments, there can never be unity of purpose, there can never be one goal and without all these things, no country can ever make it.

If u are expected humans to naturally stop being greedy and selfish, bro, u are wasting time. As advanced as Europeans are, they are still greedy and selfish. But their greed and selfishness are mainly against other races for the betterment of the UK, Norway, Australia, Germany, etc.
Some European countries would have become unstable if they merge them together with some other European country and run a unitary system like we do here. No nation, no group of nation wants to be lord over and controlled over. This is natural.

Bro, forget sentiment, u cant put two opposing religions together plus four major nations into one country under unitary system and expect that country to grow. Lie, lie.
You are wrong. Most advanced countries of the world are multi ethnic and multi cultural. I still maintain that nigerias problem isn't it's structure, it's greed and corruption. It's a behavioural problem.
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by blackpanda: 5:44am On May 29, 2021
mrvitalis:
Which part is the least educated whovh part has more senators and states ?
Education is not a criteria for good governance. Most of the worst southern governors and senators were highly educated.
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by mrvitalis(m): 6:03am On May 29, 2021
blackpanda:
Education is not a criteria for good governance. Most of the worst southern governors and senators were highly educated.
Really ... give us example
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by Princedapace(m): 6:20am On May 29, 2021
blackpanda:
You are wrong. Most advanced countries of the world are multi ethnic and multi cultural. I still maintain that nigerias problem isn't it's structure, it's greed and corruption. It's a behavioural problem.
They don't practice unitary system bro. Come on.
Take UK for instance, the Scottish have their identity, have their police, control their resource, have their own international Airport system, play their own league, completely different from England and the other three nations in the UK. Bro, when u fuss multi ethnic nations and two opposing religions into one unitary system where every thing comes from the central govt, u will never make peace. U will always have politics of ethnic domination. Facts.

Take for instance, the issue of international Airport in Nigeria has become ethnic politics. FG grants who they want the right to have and operate one. A region's only international airport has been grounded since this administration came in. These are issues we need to fix. We play politics of ethnic domination in Nigeria and that is one product of running a unitary system in an extremely multi nation and religious country.
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by Nobody: 7:11am On May 29, 2021
blackpanda:
name one single section that is wrong
Most times people just love to chant meaningless rhetorics
If you don't know it means you are not in touch with reality. You must be living elsewhere not Nigeria.
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by PetroDolla2020: 2:31pm On May 29, 2021
Who told you I’m angry?

okuta007:
ok u win e don do. too much anger inside u
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by okuta007: 2:56pm On May 29, 2021
PetroDolla2020:
Who told you I’m angry?
grin If your response is not born out of anger then I wonder what your anger will feel like - summo pikin
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by LLMG: 3:35pm On May 29, 2021
that doesn't exonerate the fed govt bc this fed govt has shown that they lack the ability to lead a country like nigeria.. maybe when they have succeeded in slaughtering half the population of nigerians for selfish interest they will be satisfied.
blackpanda:
why are u rushing to criticize federal govt when even your local govt is a cesspool of greed and corruption, not to mention the state governments
Re: Afenifere: Constitution Review Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problem by paddyDIGITAL(m): 5:04pm On Jun 15, 2021
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