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Nigeria... One day... You will finally rise. Greatness is not in colourful pictures and parades

We discovered oil about the same time as Dubai

But ... We just can't find our way out of greed and corruption.

Gone are those good old days

Colonial Masters left us at #1 = $1, politicians turn am to #1,700 to $1.

Hmm

History is good

Good olden days when we all look forward to a celebration at the stadium

The fallen Giant

Back then it was a big deal all over Nigeria , I alway recall the parade ,the presidential speech, the fanfare from people, people painting them body green and white and myself adorning the iconic green or white Nigeria football Jersey but now its just like a normal day . The best day in our history now looks like our worst day .

It's Taking place at the forecourt of the Aso Rock Villa this year.

naptu2:
It's Taking place at the forecourt of the Aso Rock Villa this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ALS10QUxs

They played Me I Like My Country during the inspection of the guards.

When Nigeria was still great

Let me help you complete the Nigeria @ 25 jingle
Nigeria is 25
The odds we did survive
Arise salute the nation
Come join the celebration
A people United will never fall
On our land vast and mighty
Richly blessed by the Almighty
Like bees in a hive we work so hard
To make the honey flow
But not without the use of the hoe
Hoe hoe hoe

There was a country.

I said it. He’ll work overtime today, hence the application of multiple accounts.

We still haven't learnt anything! We still promote tribalism and the bitterness of tribal superiority!
Almost everyone is selfish and looking for who to cheat!

But we only blame the politicians for our woes![/quote]Well said, Nigeria would have been a better place if not for tribalism and religious sentiment.

There was always a theme song for each year .. however 1985 was the best independence celebration with its theme song by Bongos Ikwe, Lagos was very sweet

Salubata:
Happy Independence

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.

Gibberish.

Reno Omokiri and this OP are Zone B

This video is from 4 years ago. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Buratai was presenting President Buhari with old pictures of the president that were taken in the 1960s and '70s when he was in the army. President Buhari received the pictures and told stories about the people that were in the pictures with him.

Someone posted this in the comments section of the video:

If really this man is not buhari, how come he still has memory of his colleagues during the military

@naptu2 could it be that the Military being who they are, tried to use this presentation at the time to verify if the rumours were true or not. Just saying.

tolor:
@naptu2 could it be that the Military being who they are, tried to use this presentation at the time to verify if the rumours were true or not. Just saying.

No, not really. This is basically like a tradition (not only in Nigeria). When someone has served in an institution and then returns to the institution or goes to a higher level, they usually show him pictures from when he was still in that institution.

For example, on this thread, they were showing Chief Marinho pictures of himself from when he was the GMD of the NNPC (I have created many similar threads).

https://www.nairaland.com/6371013/festus-marinho-dead-first-nnpc

Thanks sir.

You said something about khordovkosky and Mike Adenuga and how Mike Adenuga use to be a different person in the 80s.

Well, some of us were in our mummy's womb then and only arrived in the 90s, and have always know Adenuga to be this reclusive billionaire.

If you could be so kind to shed a light on the 80s Adenuga or better still create a series on it, I'd really appreciate it Sir.

Good morning.