What can we possibly produce?
Who else thinks Okeowo Olasubomi Edwards was right?
We don't produce jackshit. Nigerians love lies. Nigerians wants a politician that will tell you we are the best.

The first day I fell in love with politics was the day Bola Ige came to my church. He gave us a wonderful, beautiful speech we have never heard before in our lives. Well researched, well rehearsed and there and then...... I fell for the game plan of this perfect gentle old man.

The day I saw Fashola live, the "performance" he gave is one of the best I ever heard in my entire life till date, one would have thought as the minister of "everything" today Nigeria would be the most lit country in Africa. But what's the outcome of all these sugarcoated oratorical speeches- we are still in 1880 while other are in 2018.

We can do this we can do that.
We have oil yet we import oil.....so what's the joy?
All the people interviewing him were all dressed in imported cloths. He was only trying to tell us to look inwards and put our comparative advantage to use.
Our strength lies in agricultural production. We can feed the world. That's his message!

Give a Nigerian a camera and ask him to study it for a year, give him money to produce it. Tell me what would be the outcome. We are not dumb yet get the fact its true we are not wired that way. We can have a few but majority can't!

The guy would use the money to eat and come back and tell you stories! And that's because we don't have the basic things of life. Food, shelter , water, even light sef and because we are in the dark and we can't see....we can barely get all these complex things done. Why not leave technology to Japan and Germany and focus on how to feed the world. That our strength....

He might not express himself like a real politician would cos he has the experience of just family politics........ I still see honesty in him.
He wasn't diplomatic and didn't consider anyone before making his statement but yet he spoke the bitter Truth. He was only been truthful. And that we as Nigerian don't want to hear!

Very Good write up

I read, the comments on IG and Facebook and this man has been roasted. The fact that he is naive about Nigerian politics is even an advantage. Not the normal way we bring experienced thieves. Now am hearing that the government is budgeting 7.2 million to import maize because we can't feed ourselves. 550, 000 metric tons.

Can you imagine ?

All is well

As a matter of fact, the 3 major Refineries in Nigeria had been moribund and unproductive in the last 10years or more. Meanwhile NIgeria has churned out thousands of Petroleum Engineers, mechanical engineers, deep sea engineers, civil engineers both in the universities here and abroad. Yet till date none have gone there to offer to fix the refineries and maintain them. Over 40million litres of oil consumed in Nigeria are still imported and exhorbitant rates thereby calling for the government to subsidize the pump prices . Yet Nigerians want to skin me alive for saying the truth. I am scared of what the future holds for a country living in denial of total reality. President John F Kennedy said " Ask not what the country can give you but rather ask what you can give to the country" ( Okeowo Olasubomi reacting to several backlash that came from his speech on Youth Production in Nigeria"

We produce top qulity electrical wires
We produce cement
We produce world class ethylene
We produce world class plastics
We produce world class fibres

Our banking and insurance sectors are among the fastest growing in the world

Or enterternment among the best in the world

Fashion industry is booming

See if you are smart you would see Opptunity ...if you are not you would see problems

You are 100 percent right. We produce all the above. But can you tell me where all the machineries used to produce the items you listed are produced from? You go to ABA, and all products are completely manufactured by equipments generally imported from other countries around the world. Now to me that's just substitence production and does not represent the real production and manufacturing sector. I am wondering why we cannot see beyond this plain statement Okeowo Olasubomi made. He is not condemning the black people neither is he saying we don't have the brain. In plain sentence he has just said "LET US FOCUS ON THE STRENGTH THAT WE HAVE". Which is to feed the world. I mean what more is greater than feeding the world? I will vote a man like this who won't be coming out to deceive us. And make us believe all is well.

mrvitalis:
We produce top qulity electrical wires
We produce cement
We produce world class ethylene
We produce world class plastics
We produce world class fibres

Our banking and insurance sectors are among the fastest growing in the world

Or enterternment among the best in the world

Fashion industry is booming

See if you are smart you would see Opptunity ...if you are not you would see problems

You produce wire and all those stuff from machines that was produced for you!

ehixking:


You produce wire and all those stuff from machines that was produced for you!

Do you know what is called comparative advantage

Even iPhone import 70% of its part... Even German companies

mrvitalis:

Do you know what is called comparative advantage

Even iPhone import 70% of its part... Even German companies

Of course, your agricultural economic is faulty if you don't know our comparative advantage is Agricultural production. And this leads right back to what he was saying go back to the video. Watch all over again.