allgoodlight:

Wonderful write up you posses a resourceful knowledge and information. Thanks for your contribution. Remain bless.

But the question I have been asking since my year one when I was 17 was how can we make economic impacts despite the political instability

iamyemiakins:

Boss, be calming down!
You're taking things too far now

am in Europe here and i fucking know what am saying mehn this white men are don't have what we have in Africa yet the are more develop and smart than us every fucking thing is working you have white who want to work but blacks they don't wanna work lazy ass pork people

Nigerians need to be more productive. As simple as ABC.

Personally, I am not so convinced that the decentralisation of power will fix things. If you will handle 2 million well, you can as well do a lot with 2 thousand.

If the governors are as powerless as you have portrayed, they won't command so much authority.

TINUBU 2023

Ynix:

It was not a civil engineering project work, it was my choice to study different things. I have been doing that before I clocked 10 unfortunately I am trapped in Nigeria's quagmire

Yeah, I did that a great deal. It's called being a vast reader. It equips u more to leverage on ur open-mindedness.

FantasyHub:




Yeah, I did that a great deal. It's called being a vast reader. It equips u more to leverage on ur open-mindedness.

It really helped me, there is literally anything that I have not been paid for. I remember last year someone called me to advise him about ulcer and the best options for solving it just after the patient left the doctor who gave some recommendations which were confusing 5o them. I explained the whole thing to him and what need to be done and how to go about them, the results yield the expected result's. Let me add this too, I pray for sick people too
Vast reading and critical thinking made me to be able to own my own ideas about isssues

VoteTinubu2023:
Nigerians need to be more productive. As simple as ABC.

Personally, I am not so convinced that the decentralisation of power will fix things. If you will handle 2 million well, you can as well do a lot with 2 thousand.

If the governors are as powerless as you have portrayed, they won't command so much authority.

TINUBU 2023

To me politicians are our very problem, the engage cultist to achieve their aims, employs and empowers their people even when they don't have the qualifications or manpower, security been a national thing is not a big deal but those people receives instructions non state actors who have little interest in the country, we have a long where to go, let thy kingdom come oh God

Is Nigeria a rich country?

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France Why not mention uk too . Do you know France has the 7largest economy in the world and number 3 in Europe na just small gap UK use beat am..



The same France Americans are dying to go expecially Paris.. same France most other Europeans are dying to live . Same France that your useless African brothers from north Africa will sacrifice their life just to go there.


Even the England wey una Dey hype don they turn shit.. London now a city full of dirt's, weird face looking terrorist and homeless lot ravaging there..

You should see the rate British are flocking France. I even saw one news recently a British woman who went to France preferred doing cleaning business than living a great life in England cuz she said she preferred France..



Op abej just commot France.. France na better country abeg and one of the best countries in the world... that country is doing well abeg

Ynix:

Tourism alone is enough to make a country prosper, Holly wood and Las Vegas are America's tourist attractions centres and I think they both are in California

Nope, Las Vegas is in Nevada. One of the largest state in US by land mass, I once read that it's bigger than both Nigeria and Ghana combined

Ynix:

Tourism alone is enough to make a country prosper, Holly wood and Las Vegas are America's tourist attractions centres and I think they both are in California

Vegas is in Nevada.

cally10:

Nope, Las Vegas in is Nevada. One of the largest state in US by land mass, I once read that it's bigger than both Nigeria and Ghana combined

The place is HOT !!!

Hmm

Like Seriously

I just pray Lagos keep growing and becomes like California.

This is the system Nigeria supposed to adopt

Commentor:


Vegas is in Nevada.

ok, never checked out on that

Sir your too smart

allgoodlight:
California – America’s Second Country . No Oil But Richer Than France Brazil and Nigeria !

California is the 6th largest economy in the world. It’s economy is larger than that of France or Brazil. The little problem is that California is not a country. It is a State in the United States of America. It has little offshore oil, yet its economy is larger than States in the US that are famous for their oil reserves, like Texas.


California generates much of its revenue from non-oil products. It found a way to absorb and domesticate much of the intellectual output from its premier university, Stanford University, into saleable products within its economy.


As a matter of fact, much of California’s economy is built around Stanford University. So with this, Silicon valley developed. I’m sure you’ve heard of Silicon Valley at least once in your life.


Now with Silicon Valley came companies like Apple, eBay, Cisco, Lockheed, Hewlett Packard (HP), Google, Netflix, Facebook, Oracle, Tesla… and the list goes on and on ad infinitum.These are multibillion-dollar companies.

The yearly budget of any one of these companies might be larger than the entire yearly budget of, say for example, Akwa Ibom State. I’m taking about companies that are richer than countries. They are all in California. But that is just in the technology industry where the technologies and inventions spewing out of Stanford are caught midair and converted to money spinning enterprises.

But there is also the entertainment industry in California. Yes, Hollywood is in California. The US movies industry contributes about $504Billion to USA’s GDP. Hollywood, as you know, contributes over 70% of that figure. Most iconic movie studios are in Hollywood. As a matter of fact, the “Big Eight” consisting of 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, United Artists, Universal Studios and Warner Bros are, or were, all in Hollywood. These again, are multi-billion dollar companies generating revenue for California.


Despite the above, California also thrives on agriculture. As at 2014, California had nothing less than 77,000 farms and ranches raking in about $55Billion in revenue yearly. It produces over 400 agricultural commodities, a large chunk of which it exports. It is the leader in producing exotic fruits in America. Its wine industry is unique. California wine is drunk with relish the world over. I used to drink some too.


This is just one State in America. You see, California actually had a choice of sitting back and striving to get a piece of the revenue generated from Texas’ oil. It could have depended solely on Federal allocation to survive so that every month end, it will send its Commissioner of Finance to Washington DC to receive monthly allocation so that it can barely pay salaries of its workers and nothing more.


Then San Francisco would resemble Ajegunle in Lagos. And there certainly would not be those beautiful sights and sounds that make California what it is today. But No, not California. Not America. California gives to the center and, because of its wealth, despises the idea of depending on it for survival. The Federal Government actually needs California to survive, not the other way round.


You see, America is structured in such a way that States must look inwards to exploit their wealth for the good of its citizens. There is no free lunch for the lazy States. There certainly is no commonwealth. But there is your wealth, if you can create it. Under American Federalism, you are the captain of your ship. But again, you are also the waves upon which the ship will sail. That is America. The local government, the government closest to the grassroot, is deliberately made the strongest level of government. Items like Variances (adaptation of state law to local conditions,) Public works (yes, public works!!), Contracts for public works, Licensing of public accommodations, Assessable improvements, Basic public services are all left for local county governments to handle.


The State handles weightier matters like Property law, Education,Commerce laws of ownership and exchange, Banking and credit laws, Labour law and professional licensure, Insurance laws, and Electoral laws, including parties and Civil service laws. Items that the Federal Government, the center, handles affecting the States, are actually very negligible.

Nigeria on the contrary will never do well unless we restructure. We pretend to have a Federal system but we are actually operating a unique form of unitary government, and it is weighing the polity down. Can you imagine a country where the school curriculum is regulated by a national central body and states have no powers to vary or amend their curriculum? So, if the rest of the developed world is light years ahead in what they teach their children from primary schools, and our Minister of Education has absolutely no clue, the States must be burdened with antiquated school curriculum until such a time (if we are lucky, before rapture perhaps!!) that we have an Education Minister who would realise how far behind we are and bring the curriculum up to date. Just take a look at the science curriculum for grade students in advanced countries and you would cry for Nigeria.

I recently read of a high school in Japan which has amended its curriculum to include robotics and drones technology. IN HIGH SCHOOL!! But our Professors here don’t have a hang on Robotics even! Students are still taught the very prehistoric rudiments of physics and chemistry in our schools. And this is even in the few schools that teachers and students still meet in the classrooms!


For the few public schools that are lucky to have labs, all you see are miserable nameless creatures trapped in formalin, to which nobody ever pays attention. These creatures suffer a double jeopardy having suffered the first misfortune of being caught and preserved in formalin in Nigeria, and then thereafter completely ignored, even in death! And because the control of our curriculum is central, there is nothing States can do about this.

You would think this is not a problem until you understand that Nigerians spend over ONE TRILLION NAIRA every year to study abroad. You see, the reason why you have Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, etc is not only for academic excellence of the citizens of the countries which have these schools. No. They invest in their institutions so that they can earn revenue from foreign students from countries like Nigeria which has destroyed its educational system. Abroad, schools are so important to society that the economy, business and lifestyle of whole cities and even States completely depend on or revolve around schools. What would the city of cambridge be without Cambridge University. Or Cambridge, Massachusett without Harvard University. These cities depend on these universities to survive. And imagine that Nigeria had invested in its universities and was earning $1billion dollars a year from foreign students seeking to study here, who would be fighting over oil in the Niger Delta? How many car manufacturing companies would we have in Owerri near FUTO where students are constantly doing and selling their research products to burgeoning engineering and manufacturing companies? Recently, three students in Sweden conducted research and came up with a product that could improve wear and tear on tyres. The product became so successful that Volvo had to partner with these students to patent the product.

Now when this product hit world stage, can you imagine how much revenue sweden would earn from these product? Do your research, most of the world-class products we buy today off the shelf, at great cost, were invented by university students. As you are reading this, do not forget that without Harvard University, there would not have been facebook, and this our interface would have been impossible.

But our students In Nigeria are not entirely without inventions. We invented the Pyrates Confraternity, the , the Eiye, the Vikings and what not!! Students resume school with guns and bullets, rather than books and scholastic ideas, as though academic institutions were a war college. Lecturers fly colors as do students. And when the turf war begins, people die in droves. But States can do nothing about this because some of these institutions are controlled by the Federal Government. Even for the ones controlled by States, you still can’t do much because the security apparatus is controlled by the Federal Government. The Federal Government will provide or withdraw security from the State, depending on whether it is happy with the sitting Governor. So every year, all sorts of characters are vomited from Nigerian Universities to take their place in Nigerian society.

So you have Judges, Lawyers, Engineers, Doctors and so forth whose first and primary allegiance is to their cult group, before the Country. The multiplier effect of this, is a treatise for another day.

But suffice to say that as long as this problem persist, let’s forget about Silicon Valley in Nigeria, because there will never be a Stanford University here to provide an infinite supply of ideas and prodigies to feed the invention value-chain!

Nigeria cannot wake up from its slumber today because it cannot lift its head. The entire weight of its existence is concentrated in its head. From the viewpoint of government, the weight is In Abuja. From the viewpoint of revenue source, the weight is in the Niger-Delta. We need to urgently restructure and evenly distribute this pressure points and weights to diffuse tension in Nigeria.

We need to revisit the exclusive legislative list in the constitution and systematically reduce the responsibilities of the Federal Government vis-a-vis the States. Resources have to be handed back to the States that generated them but place an obligation on each States to contribute an agreed percentage to the common federal purse to service obligations of the Federal Government. There is no reason Education, Policing, Prisons (only people convicted of federal offenses should go to federal prisons!!), Ports, Inland waterways, natural minerals, even marriage (yes, english form of marriage!!) and so many other items should be the concern of the Federal Government. We will never develop with such weight that weigh us down at the center. Nigeria can never raise its head in the comity of nations because of the sheer weight of the head.

There is more to say, but scarcely any time. But to emphasis the point i’ve been laboring to make, shall i say again that there is absolutely no reason or need to fight for oil in the Niger-Delta. There are so many things that can bring more revenue to States in Nigeria than oil. South Africa has no oil, but it has Gold, and is richer than Nigeria. We all play a vital role directly or indirectly to contribute to the system that promote both equality and equity, thereby gradually restructuring Nigeria at large.

you lack sense

oglalasioux:
We asked the white man to leave too early. Agreed that they were stealing our resources. But we are way too behind in intellectual capacity. We need the white man to rule black Africa for at least a century for us to get sense. Nobody can give what he or she doesn't have.

If our polithiefcians didn't loot but instead worked for the betterment of the masses and stayed six years instead of four per term, Nigeria would become an example of triumph post colonialism.

Great analysis and submissions Op. It's left for those at the helm to work on the points raised. It's not like they are even ignorant of the points you raised just that they don't have the willpower to execute.

Nigerians are good in STEALING. Zero REASONING ability.

Building one hospital with N21 billion naira. Even the hospital that treats Joe Biden cannot be built with such amount.

If you tell them that Rivers or Lagos States should collect and keep their Value Added Tax, they start pissing in their pants.

oglalasioux:
We asked the white man to leave too early. Agreed that they were stealing our resources. But we are way too behind in intellectual capacity. We need the white man to rule black Africa for at least a century for us to get sense. Nobody can give what he or she doesn't have.

I beg to disagree, Ghana had her independence before us, yet what is happening. Most black people are naturally inhumane

rossychik:

I beg to disagree, Ghana had her independence before us, yet what is happening. Most black people are naturally inhumane

I don't understand your position. Are you suggesting we as black people are naturally inhumane and that's why things don't work here? Can you expatiate more on the Ghanaian angle?

One major problem in Nigeria is that our Universities are not innovation driven, the Universities of Technology are the worst.

oglalasioux:
We asked the white man to leave too early. Agreed that they were stealing our resources. But we are way too behind in intellectual capacity. We need the white man to rule black Africa for at least a century for us to get sense. Nobody can give what he or she doesn't have.

we dont need the white to rule us, democrasy and the type of fedralism we are running is not just for us.

we had a very satisfying and functional government before the white and immediately after.

what we need is an african oriented system of government and the civilisation of the whites

Robisky001:
Great analysis and submissions Op. It's left for those at the helm to work on the points raised. It's not like they are even ignorant of the points you raised just that they don't have the willpower to execute.

Thanks more blessings to you and your family.

Ynix:

Tourism alone is enough to make a country prosper, Holly wood and Las Vegas are America's tourist attractions centres and I think they both are in California

Las Vegas is not in California bros

Uncle Sam is nobody's mate.

Ynix:

Tourism alone is enough to make a country prosper, Holly wood and Las Vegas are America's tourist attractions centres and I think they both are in California

Las Vegas (Sin City) is in Nevada, not California.

JerrieBoss:
Like Seriously

I just pray Lagos keep growing and becomes like California.

Not now.

foxxydude:
One major problem in Nigeria is that our Universities are not innovation driven, the Universities of Technology are the worst.

They are like that because even the leaders in the educational sector are not visionary. Everyone is more concerned about how to embezzle. Most of the lecturers are sadists, and the society we are is not really encouraging for students that have interest in innovation.

There's less reward for innovations in Nigeria. More reason everyone is interested in entertainment because it's more rewarding.