₦airaland Forum

Great development. We need more of this in Africa.

Or are we just going to use colonial tools forever?

thesicilian:
We actually have Nigerian civil engineers that are good enough to construct state of the art railways for us.

True.

I know this sounds crazy, but the Nigerian govt won't do this because It is more expensive than getting the Chinese. A Nigerian firm will charge more than CCNC to build those rail projects. It's like buying a handbag. You know you can buy Nigerian, but the ones from China will be cheaper, because of their mass production and consequent economies of scale.

Ikpongiton:
Nigerians are angry because they hate to hear the truth .they want to hear what they like ,that is why our crooked leaders and politicians tell them lies and scammed them

It is only ''the truth'' to a colonised, self-hating black man like you, bamboozled into thinking his skin colour is 'inferior'. Get rid of your wretched slavery and self-loathing mentality. The Creator decides who is 'ugly', NOT anyone of his creation.

You most certainly do not know how ALL the previous Miss World winners looked. One thing you DO know however, is they were 'white'.

Therefore, in your colonised, slave head, they were all 'more beautiful' than Darego.

That is truly pathetic.

rockcitie:
Agbani became more beautiful after winning the Miss World contest if you compare her pictures back then & now.

As at the time she won, a lot of people were quite surprised becuz there were other contestants who were much more beautiful.

But it's wrong for anyone to refer to her as ugly cuz she's definitely not ugly.

The highlighted is strictly your opinion, one based most likely on colour-based discrimination.

Xpol:
XPOL

What do you people expect. The whites see black as ugly and the blacks see the whites as more beautiful.

Thank God I'm not black, I'm brown skin Boy

XPOL
XpOL
XPOl

CONFUSED, SELF-HATING OAF.

You're already a victim of the effects of racism by this statement.

Mr ''brown skin boy''. The same racists who feel the way they do about blacks, feel the exact same way about you too, regardless of your 'lighter' colour. Better go and learn about the true evil and scope of racism and quit being a dunce.

nairavsdollars:
This one think say Diezani still get his time

Are u sure you're not Diezani herself talking? Who asked you this one?

Olosho

These people need to take off these silly masks.

JamParkMe:
I don't care about American politics but it's time for Trump to step down and face criminal prosecution. This guy is more corrupt than your typical Nigerian politician and that's saying a lot.

Honestly. 99% of Nigerians who support this guy don't actually follow US news. If they did, they'd be shocked at what he actually does there as president.

Right now, he's actually threatening violence if he loses the election.

The Washington Post newspaper has catalogued a total of 20,000 lies he's told in his 4 year tenure.

20,000.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
Nigeria is 17 in Africa investment Nigeria is 22 in Africa in performance and achievement. Coconut brain which Nigerian can develop the country. Even if you vote for 10 million Nigerians none of them would develop Nigeria because they can. Go to Britain Nigerians are 14 in Africa in employment. Go to America Nigerian is 9 African in employment. 1 billionaires Nigerians will never develop a country because they are stupid. I have been to more than 31 countries in the world and from what I have seen Nigerians will never develop a country

How can an illiterate who cannot write a coherent sentence be sitting in judgement over Nigerians?

The things we see on Nairaland.

xx

HedwigesMaduro:
When political office holders make the kind of money they make and throw about you expect the people not to assume that Nigeria is rich?

Less than 1% of Nigerians have enough acquaintance with ''political office holders'', to know ''the kind of money they make and throw about''.

Most of what you hear is simply that. Hearsay.

Stop listening to irrelevant garbage, face your life, and build success.

Like Innoson did.

DerideGull:
No, Nigeria is not yet a developing country. In addition though, simple logic dictates useless country produces useless youths.

I take it you consider yourself one of the useless youths.

I certainly consider you as such, but I don't blame 'Nigeria' for it.

NGpatriot:
They call them lazy Nigerian youths for a reason, they are not only lazy, they all have absurd entitlement issues, they think the FG is their father, mother, governor, senator, reps and so on, I won't even be surprised if the think it's the FG's job to tie their shoes and brush their treach for them.

That fact that we are about to eliminate our refinery and petroleum products self sufficient issues makes them sad, I don't even know why they are not proud that their country is set to be the home to the largest single refinery in the world, the largest fertilizer plant in the world and largest petrochemical plant in Africa.

What's good for Nigeria makes them sad and what's bad for Nigeria makes them happy.


They are too mentally flawed and intellectually lazy to be of use to any society.

It's a big shame bro. If only these youths realised the potential that Nigeria holds for them, even with all its flaws.

Nigeria is projected to become the THIRD most populous nation on earth after China and India by 2050.

To people who can reason, that means one thing and one thing alone. MARKET.

The 3rd largest consumer market on earth.

This country will be a MAGNET for investors from all over the world, in the coming years.

The present influx of Chinese, Indians, and others is just the beginning.

Soon it will be a flood.

These youths can position themselves to take advantage of this country's great promise if only they could shed their bitterness and unrealistic expectations.

In India nobody talks about politicians, or cares much what the govt is doing or not doing, even though there is serious govt corruption there. People there just get on with business.

In Nigeria, if some of these youths have not woken up and cursed Buhari or Lai Mohammed, or some other ethnic group, their day is not complete. It's unfortunate. Hope they can change and become more...independent.

NGpatriot:
I just wonder why Nigeria is the leading destination for investors or why they are pumping money into most useless country on earth? They obviously know more about Nigeria than you.

And guess who the recipients are in Nigeria, young, smart and creative Nigerian youths, not lazy, hateful and bitter anti Nigerian people like you.

Honestly bro, it's unfortunate how some of these youths reason.

SmartPolician:
That's simply because they know that you lots worship anything that has no black skin.

Stop projecting your inferiority complex unto others. It is YOU that ''worships anything that has no black skin.'' On your last post you said Africans should not be ruling themselves!! That whites should be ruling us!

So you are the slave here. Leave Nigerians out of your rotten mentality.

Foreigners come here to do business because this is a VIBRANT market, and Africa's largest economy, with tens of millions of middle class people with demand for modern services. THAT is why Indians, Lebanese, and Chinese come in here.

They sit in their countries and STUDY WORLD MARKETS, and then base their business decisions on their market research. They don't say ''oh, which country worships our skin colour, let us go there and do whatever we like, and get away with it!"

Useless youth with no common sense.

SmartPolician:
Admittedly, Nigeria is not as rich as we think it is because of per capita income.

However, if you say that corruption is not a major problem here, you are only fooling yourself.

As for me, the black Africans don't even deserve independence because we have no idea what leadership is about.

If you weren't dumb, you'd know what a crass and misguided statement you just made. Get this, you dunce. Nigeria after 63 years of uninterrupted British rule and British exportation of our resources, did not have a SINGLE power plant in the country at independence in 1960.

Our first power plant was Kainji Dam, commissioned in 1964 by the Balewa administration.

Our first full fledged university was University of Ibadan, established in 1962.

Claiming that British or white rule is 'better' for Nigeria/Africa is a sign of your wretched ignorance, stupidity and racial inferiority complex for which only divine intervention can rescue you.

If it were not for independence gained in 1960, YOU would have been an illiterate village peasant, courtesy of British neglect of education. Get that into your thick, dumb skull, you dense ignoramus praying for his 2nd slavery.

If people can intentionally vote for Buhari who didn't know the full meanings of APC and INEC, I don't know what they expect from the oldie.

You see, leadership is everything. Nigeria is not planned. Nigeria has no plans for the youth. In serious countries, their governments are already making 50-year plans for them, where youths will play a pivotal role.

Buhari is ripping the country apart with Lai Mohammed insisting that he has delivered on most of his campaign promises. At some point, he told us that the projects are too big for human eyes to see.

Nigeria mirrors all the signs of a failed state, and everyone has the right to vent their frustrations on the country. It's annoying that the government cannot provide the basic things that enable businesses to thrive. For 6 decades, we still struggle with electricity, hospitals, good roads, etc.

You mentioned those guys at Yaba doing great stuff. What percentage of Nigerians are they? If a country cannot support her citizens by providing basic infrastructure, it is a failed state.

Nigeria, without a doubt, is the most useless country on planet Earth.

Abeg go and sit down. If Nigeria is so useless, WHY ARE INDIANS, CHINESE, AND LEBANESE rushing in here to start businesses?

Just answer that simple question.

Useless youth with zero common sense.

StaffofOrayan:
Dummy, you reap what you sow
Bad educational system won't produce sound pupils, it's nation building 101

Complainant-in-chief. That same ''bad educational system'' produced young Nigerians working in startups in Yaba, Lagos, attracting millions of dollars in investment from across the world. It produces doctors, engineers, and IT specialists who excel across the world.

Innoson can barely string together a line of English, yet he manufactures thousands of vehicles per annum, and supplies the Nigerian Airforce with equipment for their fighter jets.

Do all these people have two heads? Keep looking for someone to blame for your productivity deficit.

Can a country with the richest politicians in the world be called poor?

Where did you do your research to come up with such a claim? In your local beer parlour or ashi joint?

You can't even brag of steady electricity at 60years

Neither can India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and other large developing nations.

India is 73, yet:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/sinnar-residents-decrylong-power-cuts/articleshow/77940842.cms

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/power-cuts-poor-net-hamper-online-education-in-villages-135375

But guess what? You will never see an Indian calling his country a ''zoo'', or ''shithole'', and rushing off to be a servant in Lebanon or slave in Libya.

Why, because they have self-esteem, strive to be better, and don't see themselves as inferior or less than other races. Learn from them, if you still have a working brain.

If you see power is a problem, be like the Chinese. See it as an opportunity. Set up a solar industry. You can go online right now and learn how to do this with limited funds.

But no. Much easier to sit in your little corner pointing fingers, because that is what gives you masturbatory pleasure and satisfaction.

Is dangote refinery the new bragging right of the FG?

Why should everything in your head be about government?

About ''FG''?

Get rid of your government dependency syndrome. Nigeria is not a communist republic.

If Dangote's refinery solves the problem of refining and petroleum products, how is that a problem for you?

Complainant-in-chief.

Agbegbaorogboye:
@Rossinky you sound like a pompous, self-righteous and ignorant person.

Nigerian youths are not as entitled as you might think. For every lazy youth, there are also hardworking ones who work their socks off blue collar jobs to make ends meet.

The problem is not really about Nigerian youths being 'lazy'. Most are hardworking. The problem is more about attitude, geo-political ignorance and this generalised feeling of disgruntlement, based on their silly expectation that Nigeria ought to be a developed nation by now.

How many threads have we seen where they compare Nigeria to the UAE and 'Dubai'? I mean, if that is not ignorance, what is? The UAE has something like 6 million people, with three times Nigeria's oil reserves, and twice her daily oil and gas exports.

How on earth is Nigeria supposed to be able to compete with UAE in living standards? This generalised ignorance and refusal to learn, and research the world, is what keeps many of them disgruntled and unappreciative of how far we've come as a country. And if you think we haven't come far in the last 20 to 30 years, you are just as deluded and ignorant as them.

You really think those girls who traveled to Lebanon thought they were going there to pick dollars on the street? Of course they knew they were going to do domestic jobs but felt the returns will be far better than doing that same job here. It's the same thinking that holds for the doctor or engineer who migrates to Canada or UK. Such migration is not due to laziness. Rather, it's a desperate search for a better life.

Instead of spending thousands of dollars to go to Lebanon and be a house girl, use your damn brain. Research Lebanon. Don't assume that because they are a 'white' country, that they hold more opportunities. That is a fundamental problem with many Nigerians. Racial inferiority complex. Do we not have Nigerian bankers working as slaves in Libya today? Oh sure we do. Why did they not research the war-torn situation in Libya before travelling there?

Is that Buhari's fault? That a graduate will get up and travel to Libya, simply based on their inferiority complex that says ''Libya = white or light skinned people = Better than Nigeria.''

That sick and stupid mentality cannot be blamed on anyone but the dumbass youth who hold them.

The mentality that says it is better to spend thousands of dollars to go and work as a servant in Lebanon, than to use that money and start a business in Nigeria, is no one's fault but the idiots who hold such sentiments.

A Chinese man will enter Nigeria with that same amount and start a business. A Nigerian will use that amount to travel to Lebanon to work as a servant. It's all about mindset.

As for the YouTube, Twitter etc that we have today. As much as they are an instrument of economic and social liberation, so can they also be an instrument of distraction. I beg to name BBNaija and European football as two of such. While they provide employment and a source of hope to some youths, they remain a distraction for the critical mass to become unaware of what holds in their environment.

Strictly the fault of those who are ''distracted''. You have the CHOICE not to be distracted. You can discipline yourself. When you fail to do that, you don't go blaming the Nigerian govt for your subsequent poverty and unemployment.

You seem to think your generation was far better. Yet it was that same generation of yours that watched while the nation was ravaged.

'Ravaged' how? I've no idea what you're on about. Nigeria is a developing country. At independence we had zero universities (compared to nearly 200 today), zero power plants, not a single expressway, not a single major hospital, and national literacy rate was at 5% (today it is 70% courtesy of mass govt investment in education). So I've no idea what you mean by 'ravaged the country'. We are not France or Holland. Our immediate forbears were stark village illiterates and peasants. We've come a long way, and have definitely made progress.

You enjoyed free education in the south. Where is it today? As at the 70s/80s even early 90s, Nigeria was indeed a rich nation.

Errr. no it wasn't. GDP per capita in the 90s was something like 500 dollars per annum. Today it is 3000 dollars plus.

But you all watched idly by while the riches were pilfered by government after government till we have nothing left now.

Nothing left now? Really? I would like to catapault you to the 1980s, when a standard Nigerian meal consisted of one piece of meat in the plate, saved for the last bite. Maybe 2 or 3 for rich folks. And rice was eaten only on Sundays. Today, even street hawkers and road mechanics eat meals filled with orishirishi and call it nothing, while checking out their Whatsapp, facebook and twitter on those fancy gadgets you call smartphones.

$35bn to 200m people is not necessarily a sign of poverty. The sign is in the cost of living vis a vis per capita income. Compare both indices in the past years to what we have now.

Name me ONE country on earth with Nigeria's population size and a budget that small, and I will show you a country that is struggling, just like Nigeria, to cater for all its people. That is a direct challenge.

Our problem as a nation is that we have leaders who are well disconnected from the country they claim to lead. Pray tell. How can Buhari find a solution to our education or health sector when his children all schooled in the UK while he and his family go abroad for routine medical needs. Are you going to blame the youths for that as well?

Yawwnnn.... Dude. China is sending 20,000 of its kids to UK universities this year, and 50,000 more to US universities. Many of those kids are children of the Chinese elite and Chinese leaders. Same story in India, Pakistan, et al. Do the research. It is not unique to Nigeria. Rich people in developing nations send their kids to school in developed nations, and this will always be the case.

Let me give you a hard fact. Nigeria is not poor. It's the thinking of the manager of her commonwealth that is poor. They don't care nor are they mindful of investing in the youth you disparage. Do you know okada is the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria right now? Why so? Is it because the youths are lazy?

What is wrong with riding Okada? You are providing a service. You are meeting a public demand for private, quick, agile transport. You are not stuck in an office. You are your own boss. You are riding around, meeting people, enjoying fresh air, and getting paid for it. This is the unnecessary, and foolish disgruntlement we are talking about.

What is wrong with riding Okada for a living? Or keke? Nothing. You can do it for a while, and use your profits to buy two more bikes, rent them out and make more money, then move on to other businesses if you want. Not everyone can, or should be a lawyer, doctor, or architect. It's even better than driving taxis and buses because these smaller forms of transport emit less toxic fumes and are better for the environment.

How can a government look to spend $1.9bn on a rail far into the desert when we have four comatose refineries that are not working? You mean if that same amount is put into one of them, it still won't work.

Stop the oil dependency syndrome. Dangote is building a 12 billion dollar refinery that should take care of our oil processing issues. Nigeria has a railway development programme designed to connect all states of the country, and bring transport costs drastically down, which will help to transform the economy by reducing the cost of doing business. That railway line you referred to stops at the Nigerian border and does not go into ''the desert'', as was recently explained by the govt. Try to get accurate information and quit posting anti-Nigerian propaganda.

StaffofOrayan:
You sound just like this APC govt
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You keep referencing 1930's, we are talking about present day massacres in Nigeria where they have to ask your useless leader why Christians are being killed

Anyway your point seems to be that the youth are the problem of Nigeria right?
And my point is that u can't loot the future and expect miracles.

Khazastan's story
The World Bank report shows that Kazakhstan, as of 2015, reached the level of an upper-middle-income country with GDP 170 billion US$. Foreign direct investment increased 30 percent in 2015 in Kazakhstan's agricultural industry and 80 percent in the country's petroleum products sector

Khazastan's Youth Policy
The tasks of the state youth policy shall be: 1) protection of rights and legal interests of youth; 2) involvement of youth to the social-economic and socio-political life of the country; 3) education of citizenship and strengthening the feeling of the Kazakhstan patriotism.
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On State Youth Policy - "Adilet" ILS - Әділет

Have you ever heard of a Nigerian youth plan? Pls don't reference n-power, instead the budget for education keeps shrinking!
Are you getting what I am saying? If you don't plan for your youth, don't expect some miracle to happen, at least can you understand that simple logic??

Why are you complaining about time? Your quote was that ''no nation has EVER killed her people as much as Nigeria''.

Something I easily showed was a complete, demented falsehood.

When will you apologise for that disgusting, false smear against Nigeria?

Or you think you can just come online and make any false allegation and smear, and then carry on as usual?

Now you've come up with some dodgy nonsense about ''youth plans''.

A pity that 42% of Kazakhs who were genocided by their own government couldn't participate in their ''youth plan''.

Is it ok for the Nigerian govt to slaughter 42% of the Nigerian population, and then draw up a ''youth plan'' for the survivors?

StaffofOrayan:
We are talking about a country that systematically kills its citizen in peace time.

Stalin killed his people in 'peacetime'. AS did Pol Pot.

Germans were at peace before Hitler decided to start killing millions of people.

The Ukrainian genocide of the 1930s which killed 8 million people occurred in conditions of general peace.

The Kazakhstan genocide occurred in 'peacetime', and killed 42% of the entire population of Kazakhstan.

The Cambodian genocide of the 1970s resulted in the annihilation of 35% of the population of that country.

Stop making excuses for atrocities committed elsewhere, out of self-hate.

Admit that your country is not the worst place on earth by any calculation, and stop hating your background and heritage.

None of the countries that are developing unleash their security forces on the youth, I pity idiots like you.

I just named you a FEW countries that did far worse than that, engaging in wholesale massacres of their people, including ''their youth''.

Onukwu.

StaffofOrayan:
I guess we should start building dams as the youth? Una go just dey rubbish
You talk about youth in yaba, are those ones not Nigerian?
Nigerian youths have been so battered
No nation has killed her citizen up to Nigeria

The highlighted shows the level of deep ignorance and foolishness of many of you Nigerian youths.

Are you aware that over 100 MILLION Europeans were killed in the last century by their leaders in warfare and genocide?

Are you aware that Josef Stalin, the former Soviet leader of Russia, was directly responsible for the death of an estimated 30 million Russians?

I haven't even started on Hitler, Mussolini, or Pol Pot.

Good heavens. Ignorance is truly terrible.

Don't learn about the world around you, you hear?

Remain a self-hating donkey.

BuhariAdvocate:
Sincerely I have not live anywhere outside Nigeria. But I have been to South Africa, UK, USA, Germany and Luxembourg. And I knew what they call good leader in those countries not like Nigeria rulers.

EXACTLY. That is another serious problem with you Nigerian youths. Because of your colonial indoctrination, you live under a sub-conscious delusion that ''outside Nigeria'' or ''abroad'' means ''UK, Germany, USA, Luxembourg, South Africa''. In other words, developed countries.

But do you realise that developed countries comprise less than 20% of the world's nations?

The overwhelming majority of nations on earth are developing countries like Nigeria.

Peru, Honduras, Zambia, Gambia, Pakistan, Guinea, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, India, Angola, Malawi, Guinea Bissau, Morocco, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Haiti, Mozambique, Jamaica, Bolivia, Mexico, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Mali, Chile, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Yemen, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Togo, Venezuela, Chad, Cambodia, Burma, Uganda, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Mauritania, Liberia, Nepal, etc etc.

These, and more, are the majority nations of the earth. Not ''USA'' or ''Germany''.

It is because when you people travel overseas, or read about foreign lands, 9 times out of 10, it is that tiny strata of 'developed countries' that you visit, or focus on, and that is why you keep comparing Nigeria to those countries, and it keeps you so disgruntled and angry, with an inferiority complex that makes you imagine Nigeria is a ''failed state'', and such silly sentiments.

Broaden your horizon. Travel to the REAL world of fellow developing nations, and you will see that they all have serious issues similar to what we have in Nigeria, which stem from being nations in development.

Then eventually you just might shed your anger and low self-esteem, and realise that life is meant to be lived, wherever, and regardless.

BuhariAdvocate:
Well that's your opinion . But as for me I will never blame Nigerian youths for whatever . Nigeria is one of the hardest country to live in.

How many countries have you lived in, to know that?

BuhariAdvocate:
You are just blabbing and you are contradicting yourself.
We are talking of Nigeria you are talking of Usa. Which company is closing down in USA? ....

Over 530 large manufacturing companies have shut down in the last 3 years in the USA:

https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/closed-united-states-manufacturing-companies

And that number is set to rise exponentially following the recent lockdowns in that country, which is leading to decimation of businesses across the land.

A Chinua Achebe song in one of his great novels springs to mind:

For whom is it well
For whom is it well
There is no one
For whom it is well
.
.
.

WhizdomXX:
Oil money is tiny indeed I guess your not from Niger Delta that's why you can say this boldly. Though you have a point, the youths need to be smart and stop blaming but find solutions. One of those solutions is acknowledging that we're not heading in the desired direction as a Nation with this kind of leaders, thus we need to change them. Leaders that raise taxes without useful projects that all can see, leaders that slash salaries and delay payments for months
We must acknowledge that with better leaders we'll be far better today with people-oriented policies. So stop covering up the fact. It will help.
NIGERIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN. GOD BLESS US.

Dude, there is NO COUNTRY ON EARTH that has 200 million or more people, with an annual budget of 35 billion dollars, that is ''doing well, with people-oriented policies''.

NONE, and Nigeria cannot be the first, even with zero corruption.

This delusion that we are a rich country is the single biggest contributor to the uselessness of you Nigerian youth.

It discourages you, and keeps you too disgruntled to get up and do things for yourself and for the country.

BuhariAdvocate:
Just keep that your stupid mouth shut. I hate having counter attacks with opportunist like you...I guess you are a civil servant. People like you has always stand as an obstacle to development of this country. You will say all is well when all is not well.

When we are talking about rich country Nigeria is nowhere to be found. Philippine still richer than Nigeria not to talk of south Africa. Nigeria inflation and unemployment rate keep rising every day.

If you said Nigerian youths are useless what about those companies that has closed down? They are so useless? Go out and visit those companies around lagos some big companies around Agbara and other places stop functioning. You are there Because you are salary earner you are saying nonsense.

First of all, it is obvious from your write-up that YOUR problem is semi-literacy and lack of exposure.

I guess that's the fault of the Nigerian govt.

No, I'm not a civil servant. I am self-employed. As companies are closing, others are opening up, based on demand for their services. This is a worldwide phenomenon. In the USA, many manufacturing companies have shut down, to be replaced by other types of firms, in the services, high tech industries etc etc, leading many Americans to re-skill and enter new sectors, or enter self-employment. What they DON'T do is sit around twiddling their fingers and BLAMING the govt in perennial disgruntlement. They just get on with life. You do the same, Mr Finger pointer, or rot in hell.

GMBuhari:
is ok, I say isookkaayy please off the mic

We have talked and talked , they will not listen

although opportunity is not abundant and not many people can raise capital to start micro business but it doesn't mean calling nigeria a zoo will change anything, neither will hating the country

If only we can end all corrupt practices, from SARS to Magu

our resources will be more than enough to maintain / share

Stop deceiving yourself. Corruption will NOT end in Nigeria.

Except perhaps by divine intervention.

There are many other countries with more corruption than Nigeria, but they are moving ahead.

Check Transparency International's index. We are only two places below Kenya on the index, and a couple more places below Russia.

So our main problem is not corruption. It is low govt revenues to implement development programmes and initiatives.

The oil money is TINY compared to what we require.

BuhariAdvocate:
They are not useless I think frustration caused this.

Frustration over what?

Is Nigeria not a developing country?

Nigeria is a relatively poor country with a miserable annual budget of 35 billion dollars for 200 million people.

By contrast South Africa's annual budget is 125 billion dollars.

USA, 7.6 TRILLION dollars.

UK, France, Germany etc, all post annual budgets of 1.6. to 2 trillion dollars per annum.

Our youths have this idea that Nigeria is this really rich, wealthy country that only needs to share its resources better, and 'end corruption', for it to become ''like UAE'' and ''Dubai''.

Meanwhile our number one issue is economic diversification away from the meagre oil and gas revenues, to raise govt revenues.

In other words, for people to get off their asses and start businesses all over the country.

The opportunities are endless once you have a Positive Mindset.

One useless youth just posted a thread claiming ''Nigeria is now the most dangerous place on earth.''

Someone needs to send his ass to Syria, Yemen, or Afghanistan.

This is how you people end up as slaves in Libya and Lebanon, eating dog food thrown at you by racist Arabs and getting forced to suck their nuts, as is happening with Nigerians there as we speak.

And then you will go on Youtube to make videos begging the Nigerian govt to send you planes to return home to the ''most dangerous country on earth''.

Useless self-haters. Go and cross the Sahara desert like your fellow dumb Nigerian youths, even as the Chinese, Indians and Lebanese are rushing into this same country to make big money starting from nothing.

Is it not in this same Nigeria that INNOSON started by selling spare parts, to form the biggest black-owned vehicle manufacturing company on the face of the earth?

Is it not in this same Nigeria that your mates are forming startups that are attracting millions of dollars in investment funds from Silicon Valley and elsewhere?

Go to Yaba and see what even your juniors are doing, simply by using their brains and being positive.

In this same Nigeria there are people who own BLOGS that earn them millions of naira each month.

Blogs that you can start for FREE online.

Useless youths.

In my day, we had no internet, no mobile phones, no smartphones, nothing.

For every business deal we had to get on a danfo or Molue, or bus and travel, HOPING to meet our business partner on desk. If he wasn't, we'd get on the bus and return home. Sometimes these were journeys across the country. Why? because nothing like phone. That was in the 1990s!!! Just yesterday!

There was nothing like DSTV. It was NTA or nothing. And they shut down at 11pm.

Sometimes 10.

Nothing like supporting Man U, Chelsea, or Arsenal.

Who dash you that one?

A good night in was sitting home to watch Village Headmaster, with Sisi Clara and Amebo.

Or 'Masquerade', with Chief Zebrudaya, alias 4.30.

Yet we never hated the country the way you useless youths do today.

Today you can start an entire business on your smartphone in your pyjamas, in your bedroom.

You can go on Youtube and learn ANY skill or business you want, free of charge.

There's a Lagos girl who learnt on Youtube how to bake exotic cakes, and now has a flourishing business making millions of naira a month. She started by baking the cakes herself, then she trained some girls to do it for her. Now all she does is post images on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram of her cakes. She can't even handle all the orders. She's overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, some of her lazy friends are working as oloshos and blaming the Nigerian government for their 'predicament'.

I laugh when I hear you youths complaining about ''insecurity'', and ''Fulani herdsmen''.

Today, 'insecurity' means something you read in the newspapers that happened to people in some remote village in Plateau state, or in faraway Borno state.

In my day, 'insecurity' lived with us directly at home, with armed robbers all over the place. Coming to your house. Stopping you on the street to shoot you and seize your car. Streets were deserted after 8pm.

THAT is what we call insecurity.

Yet we never hated Nigeria and called it a ''shiithole'', ''zoo'', and such vile names.

So, keep on hating your fatherland.

Go and cross the Sahara and become a slave, washing plates or sucking nuts like your fellow dullards.

Awon useless.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZINDysNrA&t=13s

madridguy:
Sixty years of nothingless!

Nigeria is now the most dangerous place on earth.

A country where every citizens security is on your hand, when you're sick and you don't have money to spend, just be going home to die because no one to help.

Nigeria uniform men intimidate, harass citizens with no remorseful knowing fully nothing dey happen.

The youth are the leaders of tomorrow yet no good structure down for the youth.

Our politicians are nothing but DEVIL themselves. Coming with same stories after every 4/4 years.
At times I asked myself, when are we going to have a campaign about going into the moon, exploring other planet, going into space, having great and world known scientist with good innovations.

Nigeria, when, when, when are we going to be sleeping at others countries embassy, traveling out for medical attentions

At 60 years still suffering of bad roads, lack of good health care, no power, no water, no security, no unity. When?

Nigeria the most dangerous nation on earth?

This is how you dumbass imbeci.les end up as slaves in Libya and Lebanon, eating dog food thrown at you by racist Arabs and getting forced to suck their nuts, as is happening with Nigerians there as we speak. And then you will go on Youtube to make videos begging the Nigerian govt to send you planes to return home to the ''most dangerous country on earth''.

Worthless self haters. Go and cross the Sahara desert like your fellow dumb Nigerian youths, even as the Chinese, Indians and Lebanese are rushing into this same country to make big money starting from nothing.

Is it not in this same Nigeria that INNOSON started by selling spare parts, to form the biggest black-owned vehicle manufacturing company on the face of the earth?

Is it not in this same Nigeria that your mates are forming startups that are attracting millions of dollars in investment funds from Silicon Valley and elsewhere?

Go to Yaba and see what even your juniors are doing, simply by using their brains and being positive.

In this same Nigeria there are people who own BLOGS that earn them millions of naira each month.

Blogs that you can start for FREE online.

Useless youths.

In my day, we had no internet, no mobile phones, no smartphones, nothing.

For every business deal we had to get on a danfo or bus and travel, HOPING to meet our business partner on desk. If he wasn't, we'd get on the bus and return home. Sometimes these were journeys across the country. Why? because nothing like phone. That was in the 1990s!!! Just yesterday!

Yet we never hated the country the way you useless youths do today.

Today you can start an entire business on your smartphone in your pyjamas, in your bedroom.

You can go on Youtube and learn ANY skill or business you want, free of charge.

There's a Lagos girl who learnt on Youtube how to bake exotic cakes, and now has a flourishing business making millions of naira a month.

Some of her lazy friends are working as Oloshos and blaming the Nigerian government for their 'predicament'.

Go and cross the Sahara and become a slave, washing plates or sucking nuts like your fellow dullards.

Awon useless.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZINDysNrA&t=13s