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Serious wahala be this ooo, all contract awarded this year pending payment ...don enter one chance

Scrap them and bring in new bodies that would be performing the same functions as the old ones so what's the need?

bola4dprec:
These is not Nigeria Naira

Read to understand

anorexicmuster:
We had a.smaller population yes but not as low as the UAE.

The thing is both Nigeria and the UAE have the same problem.

They are both resource dependent nations

The UAE looks rich because they have a smaller population. Thus more cash to spend.

If oil drops to below 5 dollars a barrel both countries would be in a mess.

Nigeria was not good in the 1960 and not good now because we don't make use of our raw materials to make goods and services the world needs. Same for the UAE.

Oil does not make a nation strong. You Nigerians should go and vote out Bihari and APC and vote for leaders who would make us a manufacturer.

Which by the way the UAE isn't. They don't make anything. They just export oil and use the revenue to build nice stuff. Nigeria too.

And yes I am not excusing anyone.

so far Nigeria has earned a cool 1 trillion dollars from oil and has NOTHING to show for it.

1 TRILLION DOLLARS LET THAT SINK IN

Yes you are excusing the clowns including the current one who have been in power..

Stupid people

anorexicmuster:
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Even then I still stand by my point.

Tourism is okay but it isn't much of an earner compared to industrial manufacturing

China has a good tourism sector but that pales to its manufacturing sector

Anyway the point of my comment is that both Nigeria and the UAE have the same problem. The UAE looks better because it has a smaller population. And thus more money to burn.

Also Nigeria needs to get off oil and start using its raw materials to produce things the world needs

That way we would become even more richer than the UAE self

Tourism alone can earn Nigeria mad revenue if correctly positioned!
That will not be possible untill insecurity of any kind is completely eliminated!

Very simple, just tell foreigners my country is fine (but make sure it has naturally fine sceneries or create artificial ones) come and enjoy yourselves. Is this a hard thing to do? . May God deliver us.

nograv:
so far Nigeria has earned a cool 1 trillion dollars from oil and has NOTHING to show for it.

1 TRILLION DOLLARS LET THAT SINK IN

Yes you are excusing the clowns including the current one who have been in power..

That guy is just making excuses up and down

I don't know why these blackmen upstairs have refused to make this oil rich country to be prosperous

Solicit1:
As if that's the problem

they contributes immensely reason am

nograv:
so far Nigeria has earned a cool 1 trillion dollars from oil and has NOTHING to show for it.

1 TRILLION DOLLARS LET THAT SINK IN

Yes you are excusing the clowns including the current one who have been in power..

And I AM SAYING....that we could have earned FIFTY TIMES THAT from being a manufacturing, rather than an oil dependent country..that is the point of my comment.

And I am not EXCUSING anyone.

Thank you.

anorexicmuster:
And I AM SAYING....that we could have earned FIFTY TIMES THAT from being a manufacturing, rather than an oil dependent country..that is the point of my comment.

And I am not EXCUSING anyone.

Thank you.

How will it be a manufacturing based/oriented country when science & tech is somehow dead!

The thing dominating majority of Nigeria mind is religion & romance(erotic) in their dreams, before going to bed, 24/7! They seldom reason sciences.

Up till today they still hire alot of whiteman expatriate to handle highly complex technical projects.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
How will it be a manufacturing based/oriented country when science & tech is somehow dead!

The thing dominating majority of Nigeria mind is religion & romance(erotic) in their dreams, before going to bed, 24/7! They seldom reason sciences.

Up till today they still hire alot of whiteman expatriate to handle highly complex technical projects.

Well, that's up to us.

At some point we are going to have to accept that oil money is not enough for all of us, even sans corruption...and start using stuff to make things.

And the same goes for other African countries, and the non-African countries too.

The truth is, the UAE looks rich...but if it made things like cars, aircondtioners, phones, computers, etc...even just for the Arab world, it could have been much richer. Same for Nigeria, same for other African countries.

Closing one looting shop opening another looting supermarket

anorexicmuster:
Comparing Nigeria and the UAE is like comparing two families on the same salary of 150000 naira .

One of the families has 2 children and the other has 10 children.

Neither is into side hustle

Of course the family with two would have spare money compared to the family of ten.


Plus and this is the important bit...neither country is a major manufacturer.

UAE looks good . Because they have extra cash to burn. Nigeria looks bad because they have a larger population and limited cash

But either way for Nigeria to prosper we have to be a manufacturer. Oil is for self deceit

I dont buy your idea, its abt incompetent and wastage and years of corruption.

Lets compare two states of ebony and other state abia, one recieve more pay frm federal govt, yet one does more wonders than the other.

Even with scarce resources, with concrete planning and right leaders, at the long run we can turn a dessert to a huge metropolis.

Slow and steady wins it all, just look at whats happening to the loan gotten from china, is that the attitude of ppl wanting to grow?

VeeVeeMyLuv:
That guy is just making excuses up and down

I don't know why these blackmen upstairs have refused to make this oil rich country to be prosperous

Bros the eternal question..

VeeVeeMyLuv:
That guy is just making excuses up and down

I don't know why these blackmen upstairs have refused to make this oil rich country to be prosperous

Thanks and in response

1.The point I am ultimately making is that the UAE looks rich, it isn't rich. Most of its nice things were built on imports...which it can afford because it has the money to do so...because it produces 2 million barrels of oil for 11-15 million people...compared to Nigeria which produces the same amount for 200 million people.

2.And that leads to my point....both Nigeria and the UAE are in the same place because they are both dependent on oil. The UAE looks nice because it has a much smaller populaiton than Nigeria. If Nigeria had that small a population, we would be looking like the UAE.

3.The only way we can suprass the UAE is simple. USE OUR RAW MATERAILS TO MAKE GOODS AND SERVICES TO MEET NEEDS IN THE WORLD.

4.So, how does my point excuse bad leadership? My point instead shows how we have bad leadership. We have bad leadership because we sell raw materails, at prices we don't control..and overimport. If we wanted to look like the UAE, we would have had to sell oil at $130 and above for several years, without the oil price falling at all.

Meanwhile, if we did like China, Japan, etc...and used our raw materails ...we would get somewhere.

I am angry with you guys for thinking I was defending bad leadership. That is not what I was doing. We should leave oil alone, and use our resources to make stuff the world needs...and we should stop being dependent on imports...like the UAE IS.

Modified

Economists have long known about “Dutch disease,” which happens when a country becomes so dependent on exporting natural resources that its currency soars in value and, as a result, its domestic manufacturing gets crushed as cheap imports flood in and exports become too expensive. What the PISA team is revealing is a related disease: societies that get addicted to their natural resources seem to develop parents and young people who lose some of the instincts, habits and incentives for doing homework and honing skills.

By, contrast, says Schleicher, “in countries with little in the way of natural resources — Finland, Singapore or Japan — education has strong outcomes and a high status, at least in part because the public at large has understood that the country must live by its knowledge and skills and that these depend on the quality of education. ... Every parent and child in these countries knows that skills will decide the life chances of the child and nothing else is going to rescue them, so they build a whole culture and education system around it.”

Source: Pass the books, hold the oil, by Thomas Friedman.

anorexicmuster:
Thanks and in response

1.The point I am ultimately making is that the UAE looks rich, it isn't rich. Most of its nice things were built on imports...which it can afford because it has the money to do so...because it produces 2 million barrels of oil for 11-15 million people...compared to Nigeria which produces the same amount for 200 million people.

2.And that leads to my point....both Nigeria and the UAE are in the same place because they are both dependent on oil. The UAE looks nice because it has a much smaller populaiton than Nigeria. If Nigeria had that small a population, we would be looking like the UAE.

3.The only way we can suprass the UAE is simple. USE OUR RAW MATERAILS TO MAKE GOODS AND SERVICES TO MEET NEEDS IN THE WORLD.

4.So, how does my point excuse bad leadership? My point instead shows how we have bad leadership. We have bad leadership because we sell raw materails, at prices we don't control..and overimport. If we wanted to look like the UAE, we would have had to sell oil at $130 and above for several years, without the oil price falling at all.

Meanwhile, if we did like China, Japan, etc...and used our raw materails ...we would get somewhere.

I am angry with you guys for thinking I was defending bad leadership. That is not what I was doing. We should leave oil alone, and use our resources to make stuff the world needs...and we should stop being dependent on imports...like the UAE IS.

Okay alright
Points noted

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Falseprofet2:


I see nigerians still grapplign with such inane issues even in 2031
I see more people running to prayer houses while other countries develope fast with renewables and diversified economy
I see muric and other religious groups blame d devil for nigeria issues

This i have forseen!

Amen

anorexicmuster:
The UAE has a population of eleven million people and produces the same amount of oil that Nigeria does on a good day

So they have spare cash to build all those nice stuff.

EXCUSES! EXCUSES!! EXCUSES!!!

mrksquare:
There is nothing like a third world country. The term 3rd world country has been refined to "developing country. You either have developed country or developing country. Countries in Africa are called "developing countries".

DISAGREE. THERE IS NOTHING 'DEVELOPING' ABOUT NIGERIA OR MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES. IF WE ARE BEING HONEST TO OURSELVES THEN THE TERM '3RD WORLD' IS EVEN A COMPLIMENT. TRUTH IS NIGERIA AND MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE SIMPLY S-HOLE COUNTRIES.

AlphaAlex:
They can scrap and rescrap till thy kingdom come if they do not tackle the Northern Corruption and ineptitude Ruining All agencies of the government this country cannot move forward. Scrapping will not change anything and they know this all of this is just for formality

That's d truth

naijaman2225:
EXCUSES! EXCUSES!! EXCUSES!!!

Good evening.

Go and read about Dutch disease.

That's my assigned homework for you.

Oil is a curse

Falseprofet2:


I see nigerians still grapplign with such inane issues even in 2031
I see more people running to prayer houses while other countries develope fast with renewables and diversified economy
I see muric and other religious groups blame d devil for nigeria issues

This i have forseen!

Hahahhahahaha