omohayek:


Well said. Too bad more Nigerians can't see the sense in everything you've written. They'd rather waste days navigating death traps for "free" (or hours in queues for "cheap" petrol) rather than pay the fees that would be demanded by a well-run private operation - and God forbid it's run by foreigners (then the same "Nigeria for the Nigerians" people wonder why the indigenous cronies invariably make a hash of things)! The Nigerian addiction to false economies and government-run "solutions" seems impervious to both reason and bitter experience.

Ekakamba:
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Ekakamba:
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Bobandgreat:
Madam, did anybody force iPhone on you?

Ete - masculine, eka - feminine. I know what I wrote son. I guess you didn't grow up with your parents right? Sorry, I understand your situation.

ajiifixing:



You cannot even figure out your Moniker.

Etekamba or Ekakamba ?

Every fool is now an analyst.

Drabeey:
“But we don’t want investors to come to Africa to sell us iPhones and many expensive suits.
“We want to become productive, so we want this investment to come into infrastructure that will enable us to compete and really enable
Africans to stay in Africa.”

I dont know why i just like this statement.
This people will just be bringing ephemeral things to us. They still have that believe that we are baboons. Thunder fire them

Anyways

Drabeey was Here

kings09:
Do we have a govt @ all. Wat sort of useless ppl r these?. So investors shld come build d infrastructure while buhari n his super clueless govt do wat?

Ekakamba:
Ete - masculine, eka - feminine. I know what I wrote son. I guess you didn't grow up with your parents right? Sorry, I understand your situation.

Alright son. Your momma look sexy. Just saw her pic on your profile. Man with 'brains' indeed!

jayfolarin:


Get tf outta here! and Let people with brains engage in productive discourse!!!

anonimi:


Can you please tell us if "these people" FORCE us to buy the "ephemeral things"
Thanks.


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Teewhy2:



http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/07/nigeria-needs-infrastructure-not-iphones-adeosun-tells-donors-foreign-investors/

Cutehector:
What nonsense! Tomorrow u will hear of one prominent politician buying cars of 300million..

kodded:





















and the first Lady is using a wristwatch of how much again

midey93:
And whose business is that. is it the world banks fault that you people can't put infrastructures in place? Yeye minister

Bobandgreat:
Madam, did anybody force iPhone on you?

Blue3k:


That's one thing I'll never understand about this place. After all the failures instead of embracing free markets the shun it for another government solution that fails. Economic freedom, property right, rule of law and access to credit. This is all you need for an economy to grow and prosper.

Cutehector:
What nonsense! Tomorrow u will hear of one prominent politician buying cars of 300million..

ehie:
beggar dey get choice? your policies impoverish your country... the west only steps in and gives u aid and u have the guts to lecture them on what u want incoherently at best, is building infrastructure rocket science..what is all this crap about iphones and suits, methinks she just wants cheap popularity from the easily impressed man on the street, what are you doing about improving electricity, jailing corrupt PHCN officers, repairing bad roads, making the Abuja rail work on weekends and holidays, u have the guts to lecture IMF when you are begging their stringent loan policies. what have you done to empower small scale industries the bane of the west, McDonald, BENZ, etc, were all small scale industries at a point in time...stwpid woman \in a stwpid government, tell ur president to respect the rule of law and then probe Babachir Lawal for usisng 270 Million to cut grass before you lecture the white man, because all the whites do is to clean ur as.s after you have messed up. yeye dey smell ..and to think she went crawling to the China Exim Bank who will only give you loans only if their nationals execute it themselves

musicwriter:
This is one more clear eveidence that African leaders don't understand what constitutes development, and therefore, Africa will never develop.

Let me say this again..............

Infrastructure is not development itself, UNLESS we Nigerians are the ones building such infrastructures ourselves. Infrastructure is evidence of development, not the development itself. It is developed societies (human beings) that builds infrastructures, not infrastructures that build human beings.

African leaders please stop putting the cart before the horse!. Invest in true education first!!. Invest in human capital development first!!!. Re-invent education in Africa, a type of education that can create mass African scientists and engineers capable of building our infrastructures by ourselves.

Assuming we pay America or China to build us airports, roads, electricity, railways, that does not mean we've developed, because those facilities would decay in our hands within 10 years, and we would start over looking for anothe IMF and world bank to loan us more money to build another round of infrastructures that would yet decay again. And the process goes on forever. In fact, this is what have been going on in Africa since the so called indepedence.

Unless we re-invent education in Africa, learn SCIENCE and undestand how to build and maintain our own infrastructures, we would keep on in this technological slavery.

African leaders are fools!!

ehie:
beggar dey get choice? your policies impoverish your country... the west only steps in and gives u aid and u have the guts to lecture them on what u want incoherently at best, is building infrastructure rocket science..what is all this crap about iphones and suits, methinks she just wants cheap popularity from the easily impressed man on the street, what are you doing about improving electricity, jailing corrupt PHCN officers, repairing bad roads, making the Abuja rail work on weekends and holidays, u have the guts to lecture IMF when you are begging their stringent loan policies. what have you done to empower small scale industries the bane of the west, McDonald, BENZ, etc, were all small scale industries at a point in time...stwpid woman \in a stwpid government, tell ur president to respect the rule of law and then probe Babachir Lawal for usisng 270 Million to cut grass before you lecture the white man, because all the whites do is to clean ur as.s after you have messed up. yeye dey smell ..and to think she went crawling to the China Exim Bank who will only give you loans only if their nationals execute it themselves