Rossnitti:


Says an uneducated lowlife, with less than a high school education.




Peabrain, Japan had a highly educated population, large finances, and a large technological sector in the 1940s that could easily muster the wherewithal to rebuild the nation after the war.

In 1960, Nigeria was 95% illiterate and had zero industries. Yet you expect Nigeria to have developed to be like Japan.

I mean, you are just dumb.

Go and study Development Economics.





They sound like ''excuses'' to you because you're not well educated, have a low IQ and cannot reason beyond simplistic barometres of blame, and fingerpointing.

80% of nations on earth are developing nations. Nigeria is NOT unique.

By your logic of a 3 year old, all those developing nations, many of whom have huge resources as well, are still underdeveloped because they are ''stupid, corrupt, worthless etc etc''.

That's how you reason. Like a child.



How is Rwanda rebuilt? Where in Rwanda is rebuilt outside Kigali? What do they manufacture in Rwanda?



Just look at the fanatical garbage this idiot is spouting here.

Ludicrous.

Igbochief001:

How much was the money ...

Agbegbaorogboye:

You sound like something is damaged in you. Tone down on the insults. You don't have a monopoly of it except you're not capable of a decent conversation.
I'm an African like you so I have no reason to defend the white man.

While you accept that colonialism is not about developing the colony (which is true) you still turn around to blame the colonialist for not developing Africa.

What is not deniable is that, the colonialists left Nigeria better than they met it.

Yet, they never had a social pact or contract like our govt has with us.

You have a point about the founding fathers especially working to make Nigeria better. But you need to realise Nigeria largely lost the plot in the 80s and 90s when oil became the mainstay of our economy. With oil, the money comes everyday and a military govt doesn't need a FAAC meeting before spending the money. They're also not accountable to the people just like the colonialists which is why they ended up like them.

Building token infrastructure while swallowing the larger chunk of the money.

That said, electricity which you've been talking about was a pretty new invention in the late nineteenth century. It's use became more widespread in the early 20th century.

And for the rails, they ran from Lagos down to Kano, port Harcourt to Maiduguri and from Baro to Kaduna. These are not just two routes as you claim. They're looking routes linking different towns which we've struggled to maintain and even replicate in 2000s.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Poor country with the richest politicians and military generals in world .

Chekitaut:
Mostly from CBN...

Agbegbaorogboye:

Stop blaspheming the name of Jesus because you want to defend failure.
You're well within your rights to defend failure but leave Jesus out of it.
Jesus had a more difficult task of saving the wretched souls of your generations past and coming yet he succeeded.
Don't compare him to a failure

RuudVanNisteroy:

A lot back then and the naira was on par with the Pounds Sterling.

oluwadabira222:
No insult, learn how to give your point without adding insult.

Agbegbaorogboye:

You shouldn't have insulted Jesus first.
Just because you want to make excuses for failed leadership you insulted the son of God.
Glad you feel how it is now to be insulted

oluwadabira222:
The system need to be change.even if we remove buhari and appoint ...... with this system,we will still have the same result.

Agbegbaorogboye:

You shouldn't have insulted Jesus first.
Just because you want to make excuses for failed leadership you insulted the son of God.
Glad you feel how it is now to be insulted

Igbochief001:

Was our budget upto 10 billion pounds ?

Rossnitti:


You have no reason to, but you do, without justification, just like millions of you Africans with colonial mentality who cannot recognise your exploiters once you see them in pale skin colour.




I am not ''blaming'' them for anything. Simply stating that they were here to exploit us, and DID exploit us, leaving us with nothing, which is why we were still underdeveloped nations at independence after a century of their ''expert'' rulership.




I DISAGREE 100%.

Read the story of how they burnt down Benin city, one of the world's most beautiful and well planned cities according to their own researchers, in 1897:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

This story was replicated all over Nigeria. They destroyed a thriving pre-colonial society with broadly accountable leadership, and left it an underdeveloped malnourished hellhole with compromised, stooge leaders.



Agreed. So why do we have some Nigerians saying stuff like ''if the whites were to rule us now, we would transform to heaven in 10 years time''?



You are wrong on the bolded. In even the worst years, corruption would have led to the siphoning of maybe 30% of national income. It is a FALLACY to claim that the ''larger chunk'' of the nation's earnings are lost to corruption. There is ZERO evidence of that. What we have is not ''token infrastructure''. It is infrastructure largely commensurate with our low earnings as a nation, which incidentally is the subject of this thread. The way to get more infrastructure is to raise national income via economic diversification, not by harping on about corruption, because even without corruption, our annual budget of 35 billion dollars is a mere PITTANCE that will get us nowhere.



Don't give me that crap. South Africa built her first power stations in the 1890s. First one being the Driehoek Power Station (1896), the Mount Road Power Station (1906), President Street Power Station, Johannesburg (1906), Colenso Power Station, Kwa Zulu Natal (1926), Orlando Power Station (1942) etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_decommissioned_power_stations_in_South_Africa

In NIGERIA, the British built ZERO power stations, and our first was in 1964, Kainji Dam, commissioned by Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of blessed memory.

And I put it to you that had the colonialists still been in charge of Nigeria today, we likely would still not have any power station.




There you are still talking rubbish.

This was the colonial rail ''network''. More accurately described as the colonial resource evacuation line. North to southern ports, strictly for the purposes of resource evacuation.




Why would they build anything else, or a proper network linking east to west etc, in ways that would boost the internal economy, when they were colonialists who just came to your country to loot resources? Stop living in denial.

Plus it's no surprise the line was neglected soon after independence, as it no longer served any economic relevance, as the nation no longer focused on exporting natural resources like groundnuts, tin, cocoa, timber etc via the line especially with the discovery of oil and gas deposits in the delta region.

So the line became economically unviable and a drain on resources, since its sole original purpose was for resource evacuation and not for internal economic development.

RuudVanNisteroy:
This thread has brought out all the intellectuals.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Nigeria is poor because it has had the most corrupt leaders that have ever walked the planet- simple!

Look at what Thomas Sankara did in Burkina Faso, he recognized his country was poor and cut costs of governance drastically and that is why he was taken out early.

Thomas Sankara, upon seizing power, immediately sold off the government’s fleet of Mercedes cars, replaced them with the ordinary Renault 5, which was then the cheapest car in Burkina Faso. The Renault became the official service car for all government officers and ministers. Also, he reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.

Worth noting, as President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.

oluwadabira222:
@Lethal234 you are right.the solution should be what we are looking for.even if APC is voted out and another party take over with this overdependence on oil it will still be the same result.

Rossnitti:

Nigeria with 200 million people has an annual budget of 35 billion dollars.

Agbegbaorogboye:

I hope the guy can come. I have some time on my hands now.
We shouldn't be blaming the British who were already stepping back from running Nigeria as at 1948 and excuse the failure of leaders we had who were too selfish and shortsighted to plan for the country they wanted to take over from the British.

oluwadabira222:
both you and the other guy are making sense.with alot of point.the british should also be blame for our problem partially, the british are not God they are one of african country problem till now look at Congo,libya even somalia our present day leader might be bad but to even think about those greedy motherfvckers recolonising us is very wrong.

tensazangetsu20:
That rossikk guy is too damn insultive. People make clean comments and he comes out and starts abusing and yapping like a mad dog. I wonder how much buhari pays him though to behave like an idiot.

oluwadabira222:
how is what he wrote up there bout buhari?

RuudVanNisteroy:

Excuses,excuses and more excuses!You're no match for my intellect joker!

Why did Japan with no natural resources not make that same excuse when all their infrastructure got devasted in World War 2 in 1945 and had to rebuild their country from scratch to become of the the wealthiest countries.

Why didn't Paul Kagame make the same excuse when Rwanda was devastated by the civil war in 1994 that led to the world's worst genocide. And he had to rebuild the country from scratch.

Nigeria's leaders failed plain and simple because of their unbridled greed, corruption,ethnic politics and lack of vision. And that is why the country is a failed state and has it's citizens risking their lives through the Sahara Dessert,Libya and Mediterrean sea to get to Europe.

beejaay:


Why are you guys responding to that fool.. He can't make a single statement without calling names.. People like that are waste and product of useless and failed family.. People like that come from a family that wake each other with cane and insult.. He lack commonsense and utterly stupid

Agbegbaorogboye:


When Nigeria first came in contact with Europeans, our societies were largely primitive. Do you know what your fellow blacks sold their brothers in exchange for? Not gold, not pound sterling, not even metal but glass and alcohol!!
Are you going to blame the British for that?

The British came and conquered us because they were superior to us in all things. If we were better than them, they could never have colonized us.

Rossnitti:


Because of this singular quote, I'm ignoring the of the rest of the trash you posted, and starting a brand new thread, just to debunk this misleading, false, brainwashed, colonised nonsense you just typed. Watch this space.