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Failed to conduct free and fair elections and to establish an independent judiciary.

1. The Systematic Sabotage of Intellectual Infrastructure: Beyond mere underfunding, there has been a deliberate erosion of the institutions meant to produce and validate knowledge. This isn't just about poor education; it's the active devaluation of expertise. Key national institutions like the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), and professional accounting bodies have seen their authority and standards compromised. This allows for unqualified individuals to hold critical positions, leading to the approval of shoddy projects, flawed policies, and a general culture where technical merit is subordinate to political or ethnic loyalty. The nation fails when its "brain" – its certified professionals and their regulatory frameworks – is systematically disabled.

2. The Captivity of the "Old Generation" Mentality in a Youthful Nation: Nigeria's median age is 18, yet its strategic mindset is geriatric. The failure is not just having old leaders, but being trapped in an outdated national psyche shaped by the immediate post-civil war era (1970s). This mindset prioritizes stability and rent-seeking from a static oil economy over the disruptive, agile, and risk-oriented entrepreneurship needed in the 21st century. The state views the vibrant, tech-savvy youth population as a demographic statistic to be managed, not as the primary engine of growth. Consequently, national strategy lacks the urgency to build the digital, creative, and competitive infrastructure that would unleash this youthful potential, remaining instead in a defensive, extraction-focused posture from a bygone era.

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

prioritizing education because education is light that illuminate darkness and getting rid of corruption.

Very simple answer. It's corruption

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

We have failed to always do the right thing as a nation
Both the citizens and government
We know what is right but most of us don't do it

doncartel:
Failed to conduct free and fair elections and to establish an independent judiciary.

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

1-Systematic De-prioritization of Technical and Artisanal Education
Nigeria's education system overwhelmingly prioritizes university degrees over vocational skills training. This has created a massive deficit of qualified technicians, artisans, and middle-level engineers, forcing the country to rely on expensive foreign expertise for basic construction, manufacturing, and maintenance, stifling industrial growth and local capacity building.

2-The Absence of a Coherent National Data Ecosystem
The country operates with a severe deficit of reliable, accessible, and up-to-date public data. From outdated national censuses to a lack of granular agricultural, economic, and demographic statistics, policymakers and investors are essentially "flying blind," making it impossible to plan effectively, allocate resources efficiently, or measure the true impact of government programs.

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

Nigeria has failed in the aspect of population control and not having an accurate census. If population is controlled, there is more than enough resources to go around and this reduces poverty alot.

If Census is conducted, Nigeria would be able to know what is happening.

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

Nigeria failed in the aspect of getting enough information or reporting most expecially in the rural area as some of the situations are neglected by the media.

Yemike:
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.

CONGRATULATIONS you are the winner. Nigeria has failed to learn from past mistakes, how can school kidnapping takes place after what happened in Chibok, why do we need calculator to qualify for World cup every 4 years. If you fail to learn from your mistakes it will surely happen again because nothing is new under the Sun.

TheBlueDiamond:
Firstly, Nigeria have failed to elect good leaders, who will have the citizen's best interest at heart.

Good leaders births good and efficient governance. An efficient governance springs forth good development in all sectors of the nation's economy!

• Nigeria, is fond of poor policy execution, corruption and lack of accountability. This hinders development, significantly.

• Privatization and social programs, benefit just a few, instead of all citizens. This creates inequality and limited development.

• Also, over reliance on oil, has in a long way, hindered the diversification into sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, etc.

• Then, insecurity too. Banditry, Boko Haram, kidnappings etc, when not eliminated, disrupt economic activities and prevent development.

• Inefficient infrastructure, such as poor roads, unstable electricity, weak transportation systems, increases cost of living of the citizenry. This discourages investors, and this chain reaction ultimately stagnates development.

• Limited access to quality education, also critically delays development. Restricted access to quality education leads to skills gap, which in turn affects innovation and leads to critical inability to compete globally in terms of growth and development.

• Lastly sir eejo, Nigeria is fond of high debt servicing, weak tax collection and inefficient policies, which creates instability. Instability breeds confusion and under-development!


Sir eejo, Nigeria have failed to overcome the above challenges, which momentarily creates slow and stunted growth and development in most sectors of the economy of Nigeria.

Electricity on it's own, it's instability, is strongly linked to delayed development of most sectors in Nigeria as a whole. Failing to ensure it's stable and adequate supply, has caused under-development and stagnation.
Infact, electricity alone, is a unifying factor for all sectors of the Nigeria economy to thrive impeccably.
Stable and excellent supply of electricity, would attract investors, birth creations and sustainability of industries, and significantly reduce the rate of unemployment.

Stable and adequate electricity supply would birth efficient health services and top-notch healthcare system. Nigeria have failed at this, which causes decrease in life expectancy of the masses, limited productivity and in turn poor development.

Even, military operations would be well coordinated, with the ample availability of electricity.
Countries with very strong and formidable military, at the core of their operations, lies unending supply of electricity.
This makes the military personnels in those places function optimally, in well-coordinated ways, thereby critically lowering or getting rid of insecurity. Nigeria have failed critically at this as well, causing insecurity to linger for long, and grow stronger, which is counterproductive to the desired development.

Ensure good governance, impeccable health care systems, well-coordinated and structured military. Nigeria have failed at these, among other things, which does more harm than good, by slowing down the needed development, sir eejo.
Let electricity issue alone be solved, and see delayed development in Nigeria, be a thing of the past.

congratulations to the chosen winner!

my answer is almost the same as your chosen answer though, sir eejo.

Nigeria truly have failed to learn from past mistakes. The seemingly unending mistake of refusing to elect good leaders who would orchestrate good and efficient governance, among other things, circumvent previously-made mistakes, and accelerate development.

Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome, is illogical. Nigeria, doing the same thing over and over again, without amendments to the mistakes of the past, is the reason for the stalemate Nigeria finds herself today.

This present government, the people that constitutes it, weren't the ones at the helm of affairs when chibok schoolgirls were abducted, and during the previous years of Nigeria struggling to qualify for world cup.

Having witnessed these for the first time, Nigeria failed to be proactive enough to avoid the mistake of electing bad, toxic, and inefficient leaders again at all levels. Electing those narcissistic leaders birthed bad governance - which gave rise to the abductions and lack of ease in world cup qualifications over and over again.

If Nigeria have made it a mission to elect good leaders at all levels and not recycle the old ones, good, efficient and excellent governance would undoubtedly have been birthed, and I say for a fact that - the abductions and struggling to qualify for world cup wouldn't have happened again, because excellent governance would see to critical and positive reforms in all sectors of the economy.

Infact sir eejo, the whole of my answer has "Nigeria failing to learn from past mistakes" written on it. Please redo the analytics sir.
The root cause of the abductions and lack of ease with qualifications for world cup happening repeatedly, is the unending mistake of recycling old and inefficient leaders, and the repetitive failure to elect good and competent leaders.

And, please For God's Sake, consider the rest of your followers too sir.

Congratulations to the lucky winner

CONGRATULATIONS to the winner Sir eejo

Congratulations Yemike

Congratulations to the winners

eejo:
CONGRATULATIONS you are the winner. Nigeria has failed to learn from past mistakes, how can school kidnapping takes place after what happened in Chibok, why do we need calculator to qualify for World cup every 4 years. If you fail to learn from your mistakes it will surely happen again because nothing is new under the Sun.

Good morning sir
Congrats Yemike
Sir eejo please remember your followers
Things are rough

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

Failing to allow Biafrans to go.



Until that is DONE Nigeria will remain the same

Igirigimercenar:
Nigeria also did not heal from the civil war. Nigeria have not forgiven the igbos infact the war is still going on subtly

What crime did Igbos committed that they need Nigeria forgiveness?





Nigeria is the one supposed to asking Igbos for forgiveness, instead Nigeria keep killing them to silence them.





We will see how Nigeria will move forward or develop.

eejo:
Western politicians have learned that dividing African countries risk more death than keeping it United. The Sudan experience is still giving them nightmares.

Lolz 😂😂😂 which more death is more than what is happening in Nigeria.



Do you know how many people killed in Nigeria in every month.



Until Nigeria is divided,it will keep getting worst.



I know you people fear division.

Yemike I'm happy for you man.
Congrats

I wish I was lucky enough to get this right.. Damn!!

Congrats to the winner but if Deng of modern china and Lee, father of modern Singapore could build those dream countries through strong institutions, we could have also achieved same results.

Where is Yemike

Seems as though he don chop barrn

Good afternoon Mr eejo. This forum does not allow dropping of per-infos any more

The accccct deeetts is on users profile now. You can check signatures or personal text of the user for it


Your generosity is really appreciated sir

Person don rush go create "Yemiike" moniker 🤣🤣

He chop barrnn

@ Yemike

It seems the anti- spam bot has been hindering you from supplying the needed inputs, which would make you claim your gift.

Once the anti-spam bot ban has expired, just edit the signature on your profile, and insert the needed inputs there. Thereafter, do try and notify sir eejo, to check the contents of the signature on your profile.

This should be seamless. Do try and follow my example, as seen below this post.

PlutoPJ:
Person don rush go create "Yemiike" moniker 🤣🤣

He chop barrnn

This isn't the case.

It's Yemike himself that got banned by the spam bot repeatedly, possibly because he's been persistently posting the relevant information which sir eejo needs to deliver his gift to.

Even the post Yemike made to acknowledge sir eejo's picking of him as the winner has been removed too, probably due to him trying to modify the post and insert the needed inputs, for the gift's delivery, as you can see.

TheBlueDiamond:
This isn't the case.

It's Yemike himself that got banned by the spam bot repeatedly, possibly because he's been persistently posting the relevant information which sir eejo needs to deliver his gift to.

Na him open the new moniker