₦airaland Forum

My people, when do we take back our country and build a Nigeria where we can live with dignity? It seems we do not even have the goal to make a great nation for ourselves. Are we of the mindset that the government who has already stolen billions from us and driven us into a kind of poverty many people around the world cannot even comprehend, that this government will now suddenly change? Or are we to wait until our government has stolen everything there is to steal from us, before we then can reclaim the country? It is sad because a man must present this terrible country as his fathers land. Whatever tribe someone is from, I do not think there is any figure in all our histories that has done to our land what these people in charge have done today. All over the world we looked at as mentally colonized victims unable to liberate ourselves. When do we make a great nation for ourselves?

Someone needs to explain to you what democracy means and implies and compels you to do, so you might stop behaving like our current government came from Mars and imposed itself on you.

Once you [we] know what democracy is, then perhaps you and more of us will be more concerned and diligently scrutinise those we elect to govern us.

budaatum:
Someone needs to explain to you what democracy means and implies and compels you to do, so you might stop behaving like our current government came from Mars and imposed itself on you.

Once you [we] know what democracy is, then perhaps you and more of us will be more concerned and diligently scrutinise those we elect to govern us.

My brother, do you really believe our democracy as it is today means anything in the future of our country? How much does it matter if you are to vote from a number of candidates to rule your country but all of them are either corrupt or unqualified? Where is the dignity in that?

steadygo:
My brother, do you really believe our democracy as it is today means anything in the future of our country? How much does it matter if you are to vote from a number of candidates to rule your country but all of them are either corrupt or unqualified? Where is the dignity in that?

Yes, I do believe democracy means a lot in the future of our country.

We can go out there and vote for corrupt or unqualified people to rule us and make us suffer or we ourselves can learn not to be corrupt and qualify ourselves to rule ourselves better so we suffer less. The choice is ours.

What's beautiful about democracy is you get what you elected, and you learn from your past votes. If you elect corrupt or unqualified people to rule you and you suffer, you can either elect better people next time or not until you suffer enough and learn.

Not every Nigerian is corrupt or unqualified. And the sooner we learn to tell the difference the better.

budaatum:
Yes, I do believe democracy means a lot in the future of our country.

We can go out there and vote for corrupt or unqualified people to rule us and make us suffer or we ourselves can learn not to be corrupt and qualify ourselves to rule ourselves better so we suffer less. The choice is ours.

What's beautiful about democracy is you get what you elected, and you learn from your past votes. If you elect corrupt or unqualified people to rule you and you suffer, you can either elect better people next time or not until you suffer enough and learn.

Not every Nigerian is corrupt or unqualified. And the sooner we learn to tell the difference the better.

I feel you are not taking into consideration the vast extent corruption has already taken root in Nigerian politics. What of gatekeeping, godfatherism and votes buying? We are not even given enough transparency on these candidates to be able to adequately choose a representative. The democracy you are talking about does not exist in our country and I think in order for us to move forward, we must accept that.

steadygo:
I feel you are not taking into consideration the vast extent corruption has already taken root in Nigerian politics. What of gatekeeping, godfatherism and votes buying? We are not even given enough transparency on these candidates to be able to adequately choose a representative. The democracy you are talking about does not exist in our country and I think in order for us to move forward, we must accept that.

You see the bold? It indicates irresponsibility, because you are not supposed to wait to be given, but should get off your ass and go and get. And not understanding this is the reason "democracy you are talking about does not exist in our country". It can not exist until we put it there.

And if we do not put it there, not only will we not move forward, we will move backwards, and by that I mean whatever we claim to suffer today will increase ten fold tomorrow. And when we've suffered enough, our eyes will hopefully open.

Do know that as far as democracy is concerned, we are young learning babies who will learn as we grow older or die in our ignorance and refusal to learn to democratise better, because there isn't a better alternative to rule by the people for the people being ruled.

budaatum:
You see the bold? It indicates irresponsibility, because you are not supposed to wait to be given, but should get off your ass and go and get. And not understanding this is the reason "democracy you are talking about does not exist in our country". It can not exist until we put it there.

And if we do not put it there, not only will we not move forward, we will move backwards, and by that I mean whatever we claim to suffer today will increase ten fold tomorrow. And when we've suffered enough, our eyes will hopefully open.

Do know that as far as democracy is concerned, we are young learning babies who will learn as we grow older or die in our ignorance and refusal to learn to democratise better, because there isn't a better alternative to rule by the people for the people being ruled.

How do you intend that we put real democracy in our country, then? We certainly cannot just vote for the right person when the corrupt people in government take measures to guide the election to their will.

The country never lost or missing

steadygo:
How do you intend that we put real democracy in our country, then? We certainly cannot just vote for the right person when the corrupt people in government take measures to guide the election to their will.

First we should go learn about democracy, it's history, it's development, and how it ought to be conducted successfully. Then we implement what we learn.

It involves people coming together to organise so corrupt people don't organise better and "take measures to guide the election to their will" and defeat you.

Such education and learning should start in primary schools, where pupils will be taught to work together to accomplish goals, instead of our current education that encourages self salvation and disregard for our neighbours and benefits the corrupt.

steadygo:
My people, when do we take back our country and build a Nigeria where we can live with dignity? It seems we do not even have the goal to make a great nation for ourselves. Are we of the mindset that the government who has already stolen billions from us and driven us into a kind of poverty many people around the world cannot even comprehend, that this government will now suddenly change? Or are we to wait until our government has stolen everything there is to steal from us, before we then can reclaim the country? It is sad because a man must present this terrible country as his father’s land. Whatever tribe someone is from, I do not think there is any figure in all our histories that has done to our land what these people in charge have done today. All over the world we looked at as mentally colonized victims unable to liberate ourselves. When do we make a great nation for ourselves?

You cant take back what does not belong to you. England put you guys together through conquest, named you like you name a dog, and still own you all…

Yet you guys are still fighting to uphold what white people created to exploit you forever…. What a shame

budaatum:
First we should go learn about democracy, it's history, it's development, and how it ought to be conducted successfully. Then we implement what we learn.

It involves people coming together to organise so corrupt people don't organise better and "take measures to guide the election to their will" and defeat you.

Such education and learning should start in primary schools, where pupils will be taught to work together to accomplish goals, instead of our current education that encourages self salvation and disregard for our neighbours and benefits the corrupt.

Reasonable points. However, I think this is easier said than done. The corrupt officials are already in power and have influence over the very education that is supposed to help further our country. Do you think any significant progress can be made while this people have their hold on the country?

Fortruth:
You cant take back what does not belong to you. England put you guys together through conquest, named you like you name a dog, and still own you all…

Yet you guys are still fighting to uphold what white people created to exploit you forever…. What a shame

Ok brother, fair. Now let us say, Nigeria dissolves and we go back to various tribes. Do you think of our tribes can thrive on their own in this modern world? Even the biggest tribes in the country today might not be able to thrive, talkless of the much smaller ones. What I think is that, in spite of how Nigeria came to be, we the people of this land can recognize the value we have to benefit from each other which is an entirely different kind of value than the British had in mind when they first put the country together.

steadygo:
Reasonable points. However, I think this is easier said than done. The corrupt officials are already in power and have influence over the very education that is supposed to help further our country. Do you think any significant progress can be made while this people have their hold on the country?

It is not meant to be easy.

You should go read up on the history of revolutions to perhaps understand how much work we need to do and its cost in lives and blood.

It is in fact very hard work that will take us years if not decades to wrest power from those who have their hold on the country. And we will only make progress if we are willing to work very hard and sacrifice.

budaatum:
It is not meant to be easy.

You should go read up on the history of revolutions to perhaps understand how much work we need to do and its cost in lives and blood.

It is in fact very hard work that will take us years if not decades to wrest power from those who have their hold on the country. And we will only make progress if we are willing to work very hard and sacrifice.

Alright. This is more or less what I was trying to get at. Your earlier posts seemed to suggest that there is already a viable democratic pathway in the country to fix the current issues.

When you have taken back abia n anambra.

steadygo:
My people, when do we take back our country and build a Nigeria where we can live with dignity? It seems we do not even have the goal to make a great nation for ourselves. Are we of the mindset that the government who has already stolen billions from us and driven us into a kind of poverty many people around the world cannot even comprehend, that this government will now suddenly change? Or are we to wait until our government has stolen everything there is to steal from us, before we then can reclaim the country? It is sad because a man must present this terrible country as his fathers land. Whatever tribe someone is from, I do not think there is any figure in all our histories that has done to our land what these people in charge have done today. All over the world we looked at as mentally colonized victims unable to liberate ourselves. When do we make a great nation for ourselves?

Corruption n gatekeeping fatherism like whwn Ojukwu imposed Peter Obi in Anambra n when he Peter Obbi imposed Obianu whom Anambra can't want to stone now.

steadygo:
I feel you are not taking into consideration the vast extent corruption has already taken root in Nigerian politics. What of gatekeeping, godfatherism and votes buying? We are not even given enough transparency on these candidates to be able to adequately choose a representative. The democracy you are talking about does not exist in our country and I think in order for us to move forward, we must accept that.

steadygo:
Alright. This is more or less what I was trying to get at. Your earlier posts seemed to suggest that there is already a viable democratic pathway in the country to fix the current issues.

Democracy by it's nature provides the opportunity to try different options every 4 years, during which we ought to learn what works and what doesn't. And the only barrier to fixing issues is our refusal to learn and continuing to do what does not work.

We may continue to not learn to be democratic, but the consequence is increased suffering to the extent we may die, for that is what happens to those who refuse to learn. And I don't think we Nigerians want to die, hence my faith in us.

steadygo:
My people, when do we take back our country and build a Nigeria where we can live with dignity? It seems we do not even have the goal to make a great nation for ourselves. Are we of the mindset that the government who has already stolen billions from us and driven us into a kind of poverty many people around the world cannot even comprehend, that this government will now suddenly change? Or are we to wait until our government has stolen everything there is to steal from us, before we then can reclaim the country? It is sad because a man must present this terrible country as his fathers land. Whatever tribe someone is from, I do not think there is any figure in all our histories that has done to our land what these people in charge have done today. All over the world we looked at as mentally colonized victims unable to liberate ourselves. When do we make a great nation for ourselves?

What you’re describing sounds noble, but the truth is that kind of unity isn’t possible in Nigeria as things stand. The country isn’t a single people — it’s 371 distinct cultures, each with its own history, priorities, and sense of identity. You can’t unite a nation that hasn’t yet agreed on what “nation” even means.

When people spend more time arguing over who’s right than celebrating the fact that they’re all different, division becomes the default. That’s the real fracture — not borders, but mindset. Even the NYSC was meant to help bridge that gap, to give young Nigerians a shared purpose, but that vision has long since faded.

Until something new comes along that unites everyone — not just university graduates, not just one tribe or faith — it’s difficult to imagine real change. You can’t build strength on resentment, and soldiers can’t hold a line when they’ve stopped believing in what they’re protecting.

Unity will only happen when people start seeing difference as strength, not threat. Until then, the idea of “taking back the country” remains just that — an idea.

The day tribalism and hate for one another dies.

Hate is in every part of the world, but the kind hate a Nigerian has for his fellow Nigerian is at high peak.

Hate, tribalism, coupled with uneducation (illiteracy) is the tool the Nigerian government is using to work on all Nigerians (especially those that feels their wise ).

Keep as many Nigerian poor, hungry, educated and create hate among themselves. Sit back, relax and watch them hate and kill themselves.

This is why the government throws peanuts at them during election time, and the poor people will kill themselves.

Fenrir:
What you’re describing sounds noble, but the truth is that kind of unity isn’t possible in Nigeria as things stand. The country isn’t a single people — it’s 371 distinct cultures, each with its own history, priorities, and sense of identity. You can’t unite a nation that hasn’t yet agreed on what “nation” even means.

When people spend more time arguing over who’s right than celebrating the fact that they’re all different, division becomes the default. That’s the real fracture — not borders, but mindset. Even the NYSC was meant to help bridge that gap, to give young Nigerians a shared purpose, but that vision has long since faded.

Until something new comes along that unites everyone — not just university graduates, not just one tribe or faith — it’s difficult to imagine real change. You can’t build strength on resentment, and soldiers can’t hold a line when they’ve stopped believing in what they’re protecting.

Unity will only happen when people start seeing difference as strength, not threat. Until then, the idea of “taking back the country” remains just that — an idea.

You keep following me around, replying to my posts. Yet I do not make any posts for foreigners. If people had already agreed what a nation means, then there would not be need to unite them - they would already be united. And that agreeing, that unity, only comes about when the people start putting an effort for it. Not sitting around waiting for it to happen "naturally" or comfortably.

steadygo:
My people, when do we take back our country and build a Nigeria where we can live with dignity? It seems we do not even have the goal to make a great nation for ourselves. Are we of the mindset that the government who has already stolen billions from us and driven us into a kind of poverty many people around the world cannot even comprehend, that this government will now suddenly change? Or are we to wait until our government has stolen everything there is to steal from us, before we then can reclaim the country? It is sad because a man must present this terrible country as his fathers land. Whatever tribe someone is from, I do not think there is any figure in all our histories that has done to our land what these people in charge have done today. All over the world we looked at as mentally colonized victims unable to liberate ourselves. When do we make a great nation for ourselves?

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