₦airaland Forum

JimD:
This man seems intelligent. Let's vote for new brains instead of the old cargos. I wish.

chimaobinelson:
HE IS NOT TALKING, BUT HE IS REELING OUT FEASIBLE PLANS BOURNE OF A TECHNOCRATIC MODERN DAY KNACKS. IF BUHARI IS FAIR ENOUGH, HE WILL SIMPLY HAND OVER TO PEOPLE WITH IDEAS

omohayek:
While I don't agree with everything Hashim says - what Nigeria needs is deregulation, decentralization and better institutions, not an industrial policy aiming for manufacturing to be a given percentage of GDP - a lot of what the man has to say is grounded in fact. The future of Nigeria's economic development does not lie in millions of new low-productivity subsistence farmers, and even if every single "leakage" and source of corruption were miraculously purged tomorrow, Nigeria would still be a dirt-poor country which relies on a fixed amount of oil revenue to feed a population galloping ahead at 2.5% a year. No candidate who refuses to acknowledge these points is worth taking seriously.

The tragedy of economically literate, policy-oriented candidates like Hashim and Ezekwesili is that they don't stand the slightest chance of ever attaining the presidency, as the masses who determine elections are too poorly educated, too tribalistic and too religiously sectarian to look beyond "na my person" thinking to focus on what the candidates are actually thinking and planning - assuming they don't simply sell their votes to whoever has the most enticing "goodies" on election day. Even the majority of Nairalanders reading this are no better than the ignorant masses, or the video would have a lot more than 74 views by now.

KingSango:
You can combine military expansion and advanced technology for a self sufficient economy.

omohayek:
While I don't agree with everything Hashim says - what Nigeria needs is deregulation, decentralization and better institutions, not an industrial policy aiming for manufacturing to be a given percentage of GDP - a lot of what the man has to say is grounded in fact. The future of Nigeria's economic development does not lie in millions of new low-productivity subsistence farmers, and even if every single "leakage" and source of corruption were miraculously purged tomorrow, Nigeria would still be a dirt-poor country which relies on a fixed amount of oil revenue to feed a population galloping ahead at 2.5% a year. No candidate who refuses to acknowledge these points is worth taking seriously.

The tragedy of economically literate, policy-oriented candidates like Hashim and Ezekwesili is that they don't stand the slightest chance of ever attaining the presidency, as the masses who determine elections are too poorly educated, too tribalistic and too religiously sectarian to look beyond "na my person" thinking to focus on what the candidates are actually thinking and planning - assuming they don't simply sell their votes to whoever has the most enticing "goodies" on election day. Even the majority of Nairalanders reading this are no better than the ignorant masses, or the video would have a lot more than 74 views by now.

grandstar:
You too don't support choosing winners? You believe the market is best at picking winners.