₦airaland Forum

If you ask me, na who I go ask?

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Nigeria has failed to build and maintain large-scale, functional systems.

While individuals and small groups excel, the country consistently fails at the scale of a nation. We haven't built a system for reliable electricity, a system for fair and efficient taxation, a system for merit-based civil service, or a system for transparent public contracting.

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Separating governance from politics.... It's good we have different political parties and beliefs but then after all the politicking, good governance shouldn't be negotiable irrespective of whoever is in the office.

Misdirected loyalties, and concerted effort by Nigeria’s political and economic elites to use the nation’s treasury as personal assets.

Information, data and statistics on everyone and everything in this country is paramount if we really want good developments.

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

1.) Prioritizing human capital development of youths, especiakly those in the rural areas.
2.) Ban religious and tribal sympathisers in government.
3.) Ensure proper equity and accountability no matter whose ox is gored.
4.) Have a stainless judiciary and law enforcement process for those prosecuted with strict laws that name and shame law breakers from insecurity to corruption to fraud.
5.) True federalism.

mrvitalis:
All these are symptoms not actually problem

Thanks for pointing out

Failure to implement true federalism,total restructure

Good afternoon Sir eejo
Nigeria have failed in the security aspect, there is so much insecurity in the country that companies are even leaving.
I remember when I was kid and I will hear news of kidnapping of white men then and how foreigners start removing their citizens from the country and till now, there is still high insecurities and Companies are scared to invest in this nation and even the few ones we have are going away.

This have led to high unemployment rates, people will graduate and there is no job, so many youth are jobless.

Also the health care system is a big mess, we have so much to work on and having corrupts leaders having really hinder our progress.

If we could have good leadership that will handle insecurities, economy, health care, I am sure we could progress as a country

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Nigeria has failed to build massive infrastructure in Transportation, Industrialization, healthcare and Agriculture, in transportations people cannot travel by road due to bad road networks and insecurity, people cannot travel by air cos majority cannot afford it, people barely travel by waterways cos little or no water transportation is available for the populace, people cannot travel by rail cos of insecurity and lack of trains to transport people.....


Nigeria has also failed to harness the abundant potential of its teeming youth population to drive development and its evident as majority of the youth are jobless and became a willing tool for evils perpetuated in crimes leading to unrest in the country.....


Nigeria will start getting better if the government start building massive infrastructure for its teeming population, building industries to cater for job employment for the youth and also providing security which it has failed to provide for a long time now.

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

In addition to the reasons on what Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development is

Failure to reduce the japa wave

Yes

Our best minds, the doctors, nurses, engineers, lecturers, tech experts etc are leaving.

This weakens critical sectors like:

Healthcare

Education

Technology

Engineering

Finance


When the people who should build the country leave, development slows down

This is why our government need to make Nigeria "more lucrative" particularly to the youths and also encourage Naija intellectuals who are outside the country to contribute positively to the nation like Mr Eejo is doing even from the diaspora

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Go and get a job and stop constituting nuisance on the cyberspace

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Let me quote you verbatim

"Over 100 million Nigeria youths have no job and the idle mind is the devil workshop. life currently hard for many Nigerians and if nothing is done before 2027 things can get out of control. May the souls of those who have died as result of insecurity and poverty rest in peace"

In fact you have given us answer to the question. This is the number one reason

Insecurity, unemployment, poverty

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

The answer is lack of sense by our leaders ......if not lack of sense,why will leaders go abroad,see how things are done over there and still come back to find it difficult to replicate the same thing here. It's a curse on the black skin.


That's why we don't have any black first world country

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Nigeria has failed to be Disciplined.
Nigerian is developing but on a rather slow pace.
This inconsistency is because Nigeria has a series of overlapping security, political and economic crises has left Nigeria facing instability.

Since we have identified the problem, we can see that DEVELOPMENT is tied to structure. Every society that will develop on a fast pace must have a solid structure to build her young ones to understand what makes a structural difference and discipline.

We need to unlearn old ideas and start investing in new economic policies and military prowess.
No country can develop properly without having a strong military.

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Nigeria has failed to learn from past mistakes and other's success.

Everything has been on repeat since independence, we're recycling same set of leaders, policies and even the same solutions and expect things to be better just on its own.


I really pray I'm lucky as exams start next week and I'm yet to pay my fees. the answer depends on what's on your mind.

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Simple, we did not implement the 1967 constitution. If we did. Nigeria will be better than Dubai and Dublin put together.

simpleseyi:
Go and get a job and stop constituting nuisance on the cyberspace

See who is asking someone to get a job.

Tinubu data boy, na wetin you go put for your CV?

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Industrial Revolution is the answer.
Nigeria has done everything it's supposed to do but not in the right way or direction. This is why development is delayed.
Development delayed is not development denied, we can still work together and grow

I noticed that Africans are good at discovering a problem but lacks the technical knowhow or knowledge to solve the problems. Industry outputs builds every strong economy

For Nigeria to develop, we must change our government to regional framework towards industrial economy. Nigeria will be operating its democracy but under, we should have a regional framework tied to Building industries.
No nation has ever become big without having an industrial boom

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Nigerians dont develop themself
Hence nigeria cant develop

Health care is in mess, no good school , religion is misleading us rather than unity, even basic amenities like feeding, acomodation, transport etc is considered gold as average salary/ wages can never manage them successful.

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

We've failed to vote a good leader

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

the simplistic answer is corruption, poor infrastructure, insecurity. But these are symptoms, not the root cause. Nigeria's fundamental failure is its inability to resolve a foundational Trilemma a three-way tug-of-war between three competing forces: Political Structure, National Identity, and Economic Prioritization. Our failure to make decisive choices in these three areas has created a perpetual state of paralysis.

Here is a breakdown of this Trilemma:

1. The Failure to Forge a Cohesive National Identity (The Identity Crisis)

Nigeria has failed to build a nation where being "Nigerian" supersedes being Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, or from any other ethnic group. This failure is the bedrock of most of our problems.

· The Quota System vs. Meritocracy: Our national policies, like the federal character principle, were designed to create balance but have often institutionalized ethnicity at the expense of merit. This means we don't always field our best team. A country that does not prioritize merit in education, civil service, and public contracts cannot compete globally.

· The "Us vs. Them" Mentality: This fractured identity fuels corruption. The logic becomes, "If I don't steal this money for my people, someone from another tribe will steal it for theirs." Public office becomes a tool for ethnic enrichment rather than national development.
· Consequence: Without a shared sense of national purpose, collective action for large-scale development is impossible. We pull in different directions, and the nation stands still.

2. The Failure to Choose a Functional Political Structure (The Governance Crisis)

We are stuck in a dysfunctional marriage between a federal system in name and a unitary system in practice. We have failed to choose and commit to a structure that works for our diversity.

· The "Feeding Bottle" Federation: The over-reliance on oil revenue from the center has turned the states into toddlers waiting for monthly allocations from Abuja. This kills innovation, internal revenue generation, and healthy competition among states. Why should a state governor develop its agriculture or solid minerals when it can just lobby for a larger share of oil money?
· Powerless Sub-Nationalities: Compare Nigeria to true federations like the United States or Canada. Their states/provinces have significant control over their resources, police, and infrastructure. Our states are crippled by their dependence on the center, making them ineffective at solving local problems.
· Consequence: This creates a lazy, uncompetitive, and over-politicized system where the fight for the central treasury is a do-or-die affair, explaining our violent election cycles.

3. The Failure to Prioritize a Productive Economic Base (The Economic Model Crisis)

Nigeria has failed to wean itself off a rentier economy and build a productive one. We have chosen easy money over hard work.

· The "Resource Curse": Oil and gas created a "get-rich-quick" mentality. The government became a distributor of oil rents, not a cultivator of production. We abandoned the very agricultural and solid mineral sectors that once made regions prosperous.
· Consumption over Production: Our economic policies consistently protect and favor importers and consumers of foreign goods over local manufacturers and producers. We have failed to provide the critical public goods (stable power, transport logistics, security) that are the bedrock of industrialization.
· Consequence: We are a nation that consumes what it does not produce. We have no competitive advantage in any major global industry outside of raw crude oil. This leads to a weak Naira, high unemployment, and perpetual poverty.

These three failures are not isolated; they form a vicious cycle that locks Nigeria in a development trap:

A weak national identity leads to a dysfunctional political structure where the center is all-powerful. This dysfunctional structure fosters a rentier economy based on sharing oil money, not producing value. This unproductive economy, in turn, fuels poverty and the scramble for scarce resources, further weakening national identity as people retreat to their ethnic safe havens.

Therefore, Nigeria's single greatest failure is not any one policy or leader. It is the failure of strategic choice and nation-building.

We have failed to make the hard, conscious decision to build a united national identity. We have failed to choose and implement a truly functional federal structure that empowers our components. And we have failed to choose the difficult path of building a productive, diversified economy over the easy money of a resource curse.

Until we consciously and courageously address this foundational Trilemma, we will continue to treat symptoms while the disease of underdevelopment continues to thrive. The solution lies not in finding a magical leader, but in a national conversation and constitutional restructuring that finally resolves this three-headed crisis

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Nigeria is yet to get a good leader for herself

Empower the youths and make them run the government

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

We have failed to be united as a nation
Favouritism and Nepotism has been the other of the day
People are favoured based on their relationship rather than their abilities

UNITY

We fess need to jail all our wicked, money-hunger politicians and maybe kpai dem one by one... Only then will Nigeria be better

From the beningings, till now,

visionary leadership

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

Tribalism

eejo:
What has Nigeria failed to do that has delayed our development.

the Nigeria has failed to fix
1-the identity crisis
2-governance crisis
3-economic model crisis
these are the 3 things that are delaying our development for so many years, untill these three crisis have been fixed that Nigeria will start developing.

1-identity crisis- Constant ethnic and religious conflict scares away investment and disrupts development. Loyalty to tribe over nation leads to corruption and poor governance, as leaders favor their own group instead of the whole country.
A divided population cannot unite behind national goals, wasting human capital and preventing progress.
In short, it fragments effort and resources, keeping the nation stuck in conflict and poverty.

2-governance crisis- A governance crisis is delaying Nigeria's development, public funds for roads, schools, and hospitals are stolen, crippling infrastructure and social services. Inconsistent and poor economic policies scare away foreign and local investment, preventing job creation and growth. Failure to provide basic security disrupts agriculture, business, and daily life, destroying the economy, also short-term political survival and patronage trump essential long-term development projects. In essence, bad governance misdirects the country's vast resources and human potential, trapping it in a cycle of poverty and underdevelopment.

3-economic model crisis-the oil-dependent model makes Nigeria's economy vulnerable, unstable, and unable to fund the consistent investments needed for long-term development.