₦airaland Forum

Nigeria is like a man who earns a salary of 200,000 naira per month but has 36 wives and 80 children. It’s impossible to give the best of education, feeding and clothing to all his children and wives. That’s the same problem with Nigeria. Nigeria earns an average of about 60 billion dollars every year from oil and about 10 billion dollars from tax and other IGR but with expenditure needs of over 200 billion dollars per annum

BlackMaria:
Send that question to the governors of the Niger-delta or even sef,ya so-called militant leaders.
Foolish OP.

Idrismusty97:
But your militants have fat àss mansions and private jets na, what else do you want . I thought they are your heroes...

OreMI22:
Not just Niger Delta, Nigerian communities and the states should have at least 50% derivation as it was in 1960.

lionness:
And these deranged figmented rubbish written by some aggrieved TANoid will make frontpage!
Nairaland haba!

Sweetguy25:
The time to call for a 100 percent control your resources has now come. We all witnessed the brazen level of ethnic, tribal and geopolitical voting pattern that characterized the 2015 elections, which subsequently removed a Niger Deltan from being the president of this country.

The people of the Niger Delta have sacrificed their lands to sustain Nigerian unity and the economy for over 30 years to the detriment of their own development. The altruistic efforts shown by the people of the Niger Delta have always been taken for granted. As the campaign slogan of the APC goes, it’s time for a #CHANGE!!!

The people of the Niger Delta have never for once enjoyed the freedom of being in absolute control of their natural resources. Oil revenues over the past 30 years estimated at over 500 billion dollars has been wasted to satisfy the selfish needs of other Nigerian zones and their leaders. If these revenues were properly invested in the Niger Delta, the level of infrastructural and socioeconomic development in the region would been tremendous.

To make matters worse, we are in a country that makes no sense at the moment. Nigeria is like a vehicle traveling from Lagos to Adamawa on a top speed of 10km/hr. Yes, we are moving forward but at the slowest speed attainable. Most people will blame this on corruption but I have a very different view about this.

Nigeria is like a man who earns a salary of 200,000 naira per month but has 36 wives and 80 children. It’s impossible to give the best of education, feeding and clothing to all his children and wives. That’s the same problem with Nigeria. Nigeria earns an average of about 60 billion dollars every year from oil and about 10 billion dollars from tax and other IGR but with expenditure needs of over 200 billion dollars per annum.

We may think that the money Nigeria earns from crude oil is enough to turn Nigeria to Dubai or Japan but that is far from the reality. We tend to forget that we have a population of about 170 million people and growing. Those who have the time to check should check for countries with similar populations with Nigeria and the annual budgets of these countries. You will clearly see that Nigeria lags far behind. For a country with a population like ours, we need nothing less than 150 billion dollars in annual budgetary spending. Where will the money come from?

Any discerning and rational thinking person who assesses the chances of Nigeria witnessing any accelerated growth in the next 10-15 years will clearly acknowledge that our chances are very very slim because

1. Nigeria is poor country
2. We have a huge population
3. We have weak governmental and sociopolitical structures that hinder economic progress.
4. We have some of the worst human development indices in the world. (No country develops with a literacy rate of only 60 percent and life expectancy of 51)
5. We are not ready to change the fundamental problems that are hindering our growth and progress.

These 5 problems make it very impossible for Nigeria to have a performing president. Every single president who's elected will always fail to "perform" as expected because these problems will weigh him/she down.

Niger Deltans cannot continue waste their resources on this failed scam called Nigeria. The only option available right to now Niger Deltans is to collectively demand to opt out of this unfair and parasitic arrangement called Nigeria.
There is no better time than now peacefully ask to leave.

Sweetguy25:
Ignored.

teeowl:
True federalism is the only thing that would benefit states that bring something to the table. It is the parasitic states in the North that would always resist the idea of implementing true federalism.

Sweetguy25:
The time to call for a 100 percent control your resources has now come. We all witnessed the brazen level of ethnic, tribal and geopolitical voting pattern that characterized the 2015 elections, which subsequently removed a Niger Deltan from being the president of this country.

The people of the Niger Delta have sacrificed their lands to sustain Nigerian unity and the economy for over 30 years to the detriment of their own development. The altruistic efforts shown by the people of the Niger Delta have always been taken for granted. As the campaign slogan of the APC goes, it’s time for a #CHANGE!!!

The people of the Niger Delta have never for once enjoyed the freedom of being in absolute control of their natural resources. Oil revenues over the past 30 years estimated at over 500 billion dollars has been wasted to satisfy the selfish needs of other Nigerian zones and their leaders. If these revenues were properly invested in the Niger Delta, the level of infrastructural and socioeconomic development in the region would been tremendous.

To make matters worse, we are in a country that makes no sense at the moment. Nigeria is like a vehicle traveling from Lagos to Adamawa on a top speed of 10km/hr. Yes, we are moving forward but at the slowest speed attainable. Most people will blame this on corruption but I have a very different view about this.

Nigeria is like a man who earns a salary of 200,000 naira per month but has 36 wives and 80 children. It’s impossible to give the best of education, feeding and clothing to all his children and wives. That’s the same problem with Nigeria. Nigeria earns an average of about 60 billion dollars every year from oil and about 10 billion dollars from tax and other IGR but with expenditure needs of over 200 billion dollars per annum.

We may think that the money Nigeria earns from crude oil is enough to turn Nigeria to Dubai or Japan but that is far from the reality. We tend to forget that we have a population of about 170 million people and growing. Those who have the time to check should check for countries with similar populations with Nigeria and the annual budgets of these countries. You will clearly see that Nigeria lags far behind. For a country with a population like ours, we need nothing less than 150 billion dollars in annual budgetary spending. Where will the money come from?

Any discerning and rational thinking person who assesses the chances of Nigeria witnessing any accelerated growth in the next 10-15 years will clearly acknowledge that our chances are very very slim because

1. Nigeria is poor country
2. We have a huge population
3. We have weak governmental and sociopolitical structures that hinder economic progress.
4. We have some of the worst human development indices in the world. (No country develops with a literacy rate of only 60 percent and life expectancy of 51)
5. We are not ready to change the fundamental problems that are hindering our growth and progress.

These 5 problems make it very impossible for Nigeria to have a performing president. Every single president who's elected will always fail to "perform" as expected because these problems will weigh him/she down.

Niger Deltans cannot continue waste their resources on this failed scam called Nigeria. The only option available right to now Niger Deltans is to collectively demand to opt out of this unfair and parasitic arrangement called Nigeria.
There is no better time than now peacefully ask to leave.