₦airaland Forum

Happy 64th Independence day to Nigeria and all Nigerians

Good

Be honest with yourself op, what is happy about this? Country that is at the brink of failure after 64 years of democracy

officialwdhtv:
Happy 64th Independence day to Nigeria and all Nigerians.

#wetindeyhappentv

is this also for all those the government has forgotten in IDP CAMPS and kidnappers den? or just for those that can still go shopping and eat 3 times daily?

rebdisir:
Be honest with yourself op, what is happy about this? Country that is at the brink of failure after 64 years of democracy

Help me ask him o

Happy independence my foot!

Nonsense


Spits*

Happy what exactly

Gaining the so called independence so early is the biggest mistake we ever made as a nation. We would have been better off if we remained under colonial rule a little longer. Is this a country you'd be happy to pass on to your children and children's children? Just take a good look around you; 6½ solid decades and there's no single thing you can point to that we have been able to achieve after gaining the uselezz independence. Education zero, healthcare no way, economy in comatose, infrastructure, power, security, rule of law, electoral system etc so what exactly are we celebrating here for goodness sake? Corruption? Banditry? Terrorism? Inflation? Hardship? Multidimensional poverty? Vote buying? Election manipulation? Godfatherism? Debt forgiveness? High court injunction? Judicial bastardization? Rubber stamp legislation? State capture?

A fool at 64 is a fool forever
Shame on nigeria

Please tell us one good thing to celebrate?

The SW gave us a druglord as President.

The SW hates the SE with a passion yet won't support them leaving this forsaken union.

So I beg wetin dey to celebrate?

Nothing to celebrate about this country

Na God go help us oo.... Hmmm

It ought to have been a happy one for a nation as heterogeneous as Nigeria but alas there is nothing to be happy being independent about. Nigeria is still far from redemption.

Happy Independence Nigeria!

Please give us dependence back ... If after 64 years we don't see the fruit of independence,

Return the dependence back please.

I hail from a suppose giant of Africa..
Happy independence.

The worst independence day in Nigeria with cry, anger, frustration, hunger, worst economy, suicide, worst corruption et al.

Some Nigerians asked for good governance buh apshit gave them T-Pain

64 years old country still crawling and using almajiri plate to beg the west for money.

Such a huge failure. If you think otherwise, keep deceiving yourself. I was once in your shoes of self deceit.

Happy Independence Day!

If you're looking for a loan see our signature

Happy Independence Day 🇳🇬. Peace and prosperity to all Nigerians citizens home and abroad

Sharap

Nigerian minimum wage can buy 70 litres of petrol in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia minimum wage can buy 1,700 litres of petrol in Saudi Arabia and both countries are blessed with crude oil.

The simple reason why Nigerians are suffering
is because of incompetent and corrupt leaders we have.

What is happy about Nigeria's independence?


Were we not better under colonial rule of the British than the mess we found ourselves in today?

There's really nothing happy about this independence.

LastGiantAlive:
Happy what exactly

Gaining the so called independence so early is the biggest mistake we ever made as a nation. We would have been better off if we remained under colonial rule a little longer. Is this a country you'd be happy to pass on to your children and children's children? Just take a good look around you; 6½ solid decades and there's no single thing you can point to that we have been able to achieve after gaining the uselezz independence. Education zero, healthcare no way, economy in comatose, infrastructure, power, security, rule of law, electoral system etc so what exactly are we celebrating here for goodness sake? Corruption? Banditry? Terrorism? Inflation? Hardship? Multidimensional poverty? Vote buying? Election manipulation? Godfatherism? Debt forgiveness? High court injunction? Judicial bastardization? Rubber stamp legislation? State capture?

A fool at 64 is a fool forever
Shame on nigeria

What's with all these slave mentality? You didn't even try to explore the options of you standing up to your current oppressors. Rather you chose to go back to the white colonisers?

We truly deserve the economy and leaders we have because what sort of thinking is this??

How would you even come up with such demeaning thoughts?

So your ancestors fought off those colonisers with their sweat and blood for centuries only for you to say such abominable words?

You should kneel down with your hands to the floor and heads bowed down to the floor as you ask for forgiveness from your ancestors for even entertaining such thoughts.

It's an abomination for you to even let those sick words come out of your lips.. over 300 years of slavery and ethnic cleansing was for nothing?

I pray your ancestors find a way to overlook the evil thoughts you harbour in your mind.

I pray you have the mental clarity to see through the webs and realise the enemy has always been the white government (not just all white men) whom you rather bend your back over for to be raped, maimed and whipped with the koboko & our own brothers who have been made gatekeepers of the nation's treasury and armoury

kennyz247:
Nothing to celebrate about this country

Well… that’s for you bro

There's nothing to celebrate about Nigeria. What we need at this point in time is sober reflection cuz the country is in a state of shetima. Truly truly, the country don tinubu

What are y'all celebrating? 64 years of retrogression?

Happy 64th birthday to my beloved country.

Gid bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria

kennyz247:
Nothing to celebrate about this country

That means you as citizen is very very unproductive to have effective anything positive into Nigeria.
Because you kot castigating Nigeria are Nigeria whom should be blamed.

You want to live at the expense of your country but in real World, your country lives at your expense, check developed worlds.

I quote Reno Omokri

Before You Protest On Independence Day

The biggest challenge to Nigeria's progress as a nation is not corruption, tribalism, terrorism, inflation or even the removal of fuel subsidy. It is our entitlement.

The government did not do this. The government did not do that. I wish every Nigerian could travel the world. There is nothing like government airports, hospitals, schools, or markets in these nations we want to japa to.

Governments in Europe, America and Canada do not go into business or provide many of the services the Nigerian government provides for the Nigerian people.

Hospitals are built, owned and operated by the private sector. Ditto for hospitals, universities, airports, power stations, transmission lines, and sometimes even roads.

59.9% of Americans pay taxes, and their tax money is mostly used to fund the government and the military. I challenge you to find one government-owned hospital in America for civilians.

Even their postal services are run by the private sector.

When you hear British Telecommunications, British Gas, British Aerospace, British Energy and British Airways, none of them are owned by the British government.

When you hear Bank of America, American Airlines, and American Electric Power Company, these are all private companies.

The most profitable business run by the U.S. government is the U.S. military. Almost every other thing they leave for the private sector.

Please fact-check me: If you earn €58.597 in Germany, you will pay 42% of your income or €24,610 as taxes. There will be riots if you ask Nigerians to pay this level of tax. But we want a German level of delivery from our government. So, where will the money to run Nigeria come from?

In 1960, Nigeria could afford that because our population was 45 million, and we needed to raise an educated class speedily. By 1970, we could still afford it, and we did provide it, because our population was just approaching 50 million, and we still had a shortage of qualified persons.

But this was no longer practicable by the 1990s when our population topped 120 million. And how when we are twice that, at 220 million, it would be ruinous.

Britain went through these stages, and Mrs. Thatcher was forced to end birthright citizenship, introduce council tax, and privatise every government-owned business, including giants like British Telecom, British Gas, British Energy, British Aerospace, and British Airways.

Fewer than 8% of Nigerians actually pay income taxes, yet we want the government to build schools, hospitals, power stations, transmission lines, railways, airports, stadia, etc.

Then, after doing these, the government should still have money left over to subsidise fuel and power and give palliatives to Nigerians, or we will protest their alleged mismanagement and corruption.

Even insecurity stems from this issue. We need about five million soldiers and security officers to effectively secure Nigerians, but we have less than two million. We need at least three million more soldiers, policemen, airmen, etc. But when only about 6% of us pay taxes, where will the money to pay them come from?

Nigerians are the main problem of Nigeria!

You will hear them say, but we have oil.

Saudi Arabia has a population of 35 million and makes $350 billion annually from oil. That is $10,000 per citizen. Nigeria has a population of 220 million people and generates approximately $36 billion from crude annually. That is $150 per person. At 2.6 million people, Qatar is just one per cent of our population. Yet, their annual revenue is $68 billion. Two and a half times that of Nigeria.

Nigeria is not "oil rich". We are oil-poor. On a per capita basis, Ghana is more oil-rich than we are. We produce 1.5 million barrels per day for a population of 220 million people. Ghana produces 200,000 barrels per day for a population of 32 million.

So, when Nigerians hardly pay taxes and our oil and gas revenue is insufficient to meet the demands of running our country, we are forced to borrow or print money, which means that inflation will increase.

And under this situation, we cannot afford to artificially reduce the price of fuel by paying subsidy. We will go bankrupt. Therefore, as much as this annoys you, the only options are to allow market forces to control the fuel price, just as it does other commodities, or we must be prepared to pay higher taxes.

Failing that, Nigeria will continue to borrow or print more money, fueling inflation and increasing commodity prices.

Protests and riots cannot change these economic realities. They will be just like a child's tantrum when his parents cannot afford to buy him a toy.

Nigerians want to live at the state's expense, forgetting that the state has to live at the expense of the people or it will collapse, as the Soviet Union did in 1991.

Reno Omokri

#TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.