₦airaland Forum

adenigga:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2026/07/13/buhari-left-flourishing-nigeria-behind-ex-minister-sirika-claims

PepeXKermit:
Compared to Tinubu yes but in general, there was nothing flourishing about nigeria in Buharis time.

Alliswell248:
We are not h##dless m#b here.
We are educated and don't lie like Peter Noisemaker law breaker Obi

AndroBlaze:
I don't know what people expect an Ex-minister that was caught stealing to say!!

Definitely life was easier during Buhari's time, but only an extremely dishonest fellow will not accept that from insecurity to a loop sided economy, all these seeds were planted during Buhari and his predecessors time....and yes Tinubu is planting his own seeds that his successor will also suffer from.

As far as I can see, the last people to hand down a better Nigeria than what they initially met, was in 1960, when the British unfortunately handed it back to us!!

grandstar:

The British did not build a single public school. All schools were either the work of missionaries or the communities. Barely 5% of the country's population was literate at Independence.

The British came to profit from their colonies and not to build them. Thats why the amalgamation was done. The South was solvent while the North was not. A merger ended the losses. It made economic sense but not social nor cultural. They score 20% at best.

AndroBlaze:
In this age where google is a touch away, outlandish and ridiculous claims like the one in bold are not needed to make a solid point.

There is no doubt that the British used us and got the best out of the relationship with us..... however this does not change the fact that in general, the peoples that make Nigeria, saw development, better health and security while the British ruled us. For example:

Jihadist existed before and during the British. They tamed them.

Yorubas were in a 100 year war between ourselves before and during the British, we eventually got tired and got tamed.

The "Igbo" identity and end of their smalltime republican behaviour was achieved during the British reign.

In 1960, Nigeria's GDP alone was already 10% of Africa's GDP. A typical Nigerian's per capita income then made them as rich or richer than the average South Korean and Chinese.

Also then we did not have such an uneven society with people as strikingly and routinely wealthy as Dangote or our thieving politicians.

So please, take it easy with the Negritude propaganda, when most of you won't even bother to spend time with your grandparents asking their opinion or just a minute or two on google to verify easily debunkable claims.

grandstar:
Alright, I should have done some homework before stat8ng some of my views. Nevertheless, I still stand my ground that they could have done much more.

Your per capita stats did not impress much because times are different. In those times, industrialized countries were rich nations. Nowadays, even poverty stricken Pakistan is labelled as an industrialized nation.

When i did a Google search, it said the British did not put much effort into education, as they ran the nation on a "shoestring budget." That was the exact phrase.

I dont believe in the negritude blabber. I am actually neutral. Likewise, I dont have to meet a grandpa to find out if things were better. My late dad was born 1936. Things are always relative. People would say things were cheap, but everyone was poor. My dad found it hard to feed with a job he had while single, living in the Midwestern State. This was in the 1960s.

Sheuns:
Buhari met the country in a bad state and left it in a worse state.

Tinubu met the country in a worse state and took it below worst state.