madridsta007:

If you recognise that there is a problem, it is only then that you can be able to confidently seek for solutions. Unfortunately many of us live in the delusional fool's paradise believing that there is no problem at all.

you are right though, but I don't really agree that some people belive there is no problem except they are reaping off the current situation the country is in.

ehie: he stated the truth,why are forcing ur warped opinins on him?

Everyone is aware that there are problems in this country....the question now is "What next?".

Until we have change of mind, I mean our orientation must change before we can have a better Nigeria and Africa. Tell me out of people that have been serving Nigeria government at any capacity, who among can we point has done well? Nobody abi. What is the probability that if we ( nairalander) or any of us get there we do well? Zero. So we need a change of orientation and prayers to seek god's mercy.
We've got it wrong right from the onset-( Tafawa and the rest regime). They did not make education compulsory for all. Awolowo gave it to the south-west thinking we out-shine them later in the future. Tafawa and the other northerner fooled themselves, gave it to there sons only thinking they will rotate the power among themselves later in the future. They all went and bought enough of shares for there generation unborn. Build companies with Nigeria money in their names. All they did then exclude the poor.
Our prevent government have done well to the extend that they have successfully spread poverty to the nooks and cranny of the nation. They give #50 each to voters (the poor) to vote for them. The wicked poor turn area boys and girls, smoking and drinking jeje. Politician still went ahead to meet them, increases their money to #500 each, give guns to them, promise them hell immediately they emerge. The guns are still with them and politician didn't fulfill the hell after. The poor now uses the gun and other to treating the poor. Un-successful politician meets those wicked poor again promise them beast for the counter attack. Giving enough money and change of orientation again ( from frying pan to fire- hell to beast). Now emerge the boko haram in the north. Now it has got out of hand with different fashion - governmental and non-governmental.
Watch out for the yorubas after boko haram. Militant - boko haram - ........... It's going to be superb. Things still going on underneath. We are looking for the sponsorship now
Thessaly are Nigeria achievement so far so good

52yrs is not enough to conclude Nigeria as a failed state,Nigeria as a nation had series of set backs in the hands of the military

The problem of Nigeria is that we have τ̩̩̥ many anti-Nigerians posing themselves as Nigerians and living in Nigerian with out the true Nigerian spirit
And until we come to understand that the only way a country stands strong is when an individual thinks about what he has done for the country and not what your country has done for you

There are countries who are 100yrs old and Nigeria is better than them

R.A.W:
52years and we are still suffering in the midst of plenty.

So you believe everyone should be rich or have enough yea?

madridsta007: My name is Nigeria !!! I need Re-Building and not Re-Branding.

In the next few hours, am going to spend 10 billion Naira to celebrate my 52nd birthday! I am Nigeria !!!.

I am divided into 36 unequal states, plus my capital territory, christened ABUJA . I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of water, but I cannot feed myself. So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion to import milk. I produce rice, but don't eat it. I have 60 million cattle but no milk. I have the capacity to feed the whole of Africa but I import most food instead.

I am hungry, please help and re-build me.

I drive the latest cars in the world but have no roads, neither can I boast of manufacturing a bicycle's tyre. I lose family and friends everyday on my roads for which funds have been allocated to build and rehabilitate but the fund has been looted. I lose my young, my old, and my most brainy and productive people to the potholes, craters and crevasses they travel on everyday. I am in permanent mourning, please re-build me.

My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof. I take lecture notes through the window and live with 15 others in a single room. All my professors have gone abroad, some of the rest are awaiting visas. Those that remain, depend on money raked from the sales of hand-outs to students. My students receive lectures for a maximum of 3 months in a year due to lecturers' strike or students' boycott of lectures because of lack of better condition of service and deplorable condition on campus. That explains why I have university graduates, who are semi- illiterates.
I want a future, please re-build me.

Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no electric power. So my wife gives birth by candle light and surgery is performed by quacks. All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are also waiting to go. I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before me.
I am hopeless, hapless and helpless, please re-build me.

I wanted change so I stood all day long to cast my vote. But even before I could vote, the results had been announced. When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets. My rulers are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors. I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy. I have no verve, no vote, no voice, please re-build me.

I have over 50 million youths with no jobs, no present and no future. So my sons in the North have become street urchins and their brothers in the South have become militants. My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and their cousins drown in the waters of the Mediterranean . My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt , while their sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam. I am inconsolable, please re-build me.

My people cannot sleep at night and cannot relax by day. They cannot use ATM machines, nor use cheques. My children sleep through the staccato of AK 47's, see through the mist of tear gas, while we all inhale Carbon Monoxide, poisonous CO-2 from popular 'I better pass my neighbour' (portable generators) and 'Okada' (motorbike taxis) The leaders have looted everything on ground and below. They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private jets (28 of which were bought in the last 12 months). They have stolen the future of generations yet unborn and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of hunger. I want justice, please re-build me.

I can produce anything, but import everything. So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa; my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland; my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy; my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia; my biscuit is made in Indonesia; my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France. My taste is far-flung and foreign. I no longer cook at home but take pride in eating at take-away outlets fashioned after the Western style of living.
Anything made in my land is inferior; I prefer those made in England, America or Europe . To crown it all, items made in my land but specifically sent abroad with made in England labels are brought back from 'Oyinbo' land at 5 times the original price it would have gone for had it been sold as home made, please re-brand me.

My people are cancerous from the greed of their friends who bleach palm oil with chemicals; my children died because they drank 'My Pikin' with NAFDAC numbers; my poor die because kerosene explodes in their faces; my land is dead because all the trees have been cut down; flood kills my people yearly because the drainage is clogged; my fish are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers; my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done. My livelihood is in jeopardy, and I am in the uttermost depths of despondence, please re-build me.

I have genuine leather but choose to eat it.. So I spend a billion dollars to import fake leather. I have four (4) refineries, but prefer to import fuel, so I waste more billions to import petrol and diesel. I have no security in my country, but would rather send troops to keep the peace in another man's land. I have 160 dams, but cannot get water to drink, so I buy 'pure' water that broils my inwards. I have a million children waiting to enter universities, but my ivory dungeons can only take a tenth (10 %). I have no power (electricity) , but choose to flare gas, and vote billion of dollars every year to generate electricity but not a single watt has come from it. So, my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at
the glare of naked flares. I have no direction, please re-build me.

My people pray to God every morning and every night, but commit every crime known to man because re-branded identities will never alter the tunes of inbred rhythms. Just as the drums of heritage heralds the frenzied jingles, remember - the Nigerian soul can only be Nigerian - fighting free from the cold embrace of a government that has no spring, no sense, no shame. So we watch the possessed, frenzied dance, drenched in silent tears as freedom is locked up in democracy's empty cellars. I need guidance, please re-build me.

But then, why can I not simply be me, without being re-branded?
Or does my complexion cloud the colour of my character?
Does my location limit the lengths of my liberty?
Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul?
Does my mien maim the mine of my mind?
And is this life worth re-branding?
Is it re-branding that I need or complete re-building?

Others blame my calamities on the colonial master that has left my shore some 51 years ago. Without deceiving myself, I know I have problems, who will deliver me? May be what I need is to be re-born, Christians call it being born-again. Turning to a higher authority or changing direction. I mean to sincerely own up and turn to the man up-stairs, may be, just maybe solution will come from there.

To re-build a wobbling structure, there is need for dismantling of existing one (remember, if the foundation can be destroyed, what can the
righteous do?).. Shall I then consider the idea muted by some of my own who have fled abroad?
Some call for 'Separation for Co-operation' , others call for true Federalism - while others are yet asking for the return to Parliamentary system.
Which way do I go? on October 1, 2009, I celebrated my 50th birthday and my 52nd is just around the corner, barely less than 2 weeks.
I do not want to carry on in my golden age without direction, ... so, please, help me God. Re-mould and Re-Build me.

PLEASE PRAY PERSISTENTLY FOR NIGERIA!!!!

LOL...some people have the time....

Mr.T Anonymous:
1.At least Bishop Oyedepo can boast of 4 private jets
2.At least we are the most populous country in Africa and also among the first six poverty stricken country in Nigeria.
3.At least we have the richest man in Africa who uses our money to enrich his so called company.
4.At least,PHCN is one of the best in putting a whole town into a plucking darkness for at least 3months.
5.At least,we don clock 52,many no even clock 40.

Who is this one tho

Dranatomy: NIGERIA IS AN ANIMAL KINGDOM

Your father is an animal and your family is an animal kingdom....

Godogwu:

LOL...some people have the time....

LOL... It's all relative it's all 24 hours. Some people use their spare time in drinking, smoking and fornicating. Others use that same time in researching and writing. It's the same 24 hours bruv

ba7man: you are right though, but I don't really agree that some people belive there is no problem except they are reaping off the current situation the country is in.

Fortunately you answered the question yourself. 'Except' is the key word. 'Except they are reaping off the current situation the country is in'

The Nigerian government contractor that delivers a road that lasts for 2 months instead of the 20 years one he was paid to deliver would smile to the bank and say, 'there is nothing wrong with the country'.
You answered yourself sir.

madridsta007:

LOL... It's all relative it's all 24 hours. Some people use their spare time in drinking, smoking and fornicating. Others use that same time in researching and writing. It's the same 24 hours bruv

LOL, true talk mehn....your right

Well given Nigeria's military beginning, I think there have been some achievements.

The last polls, where a record number of Nigerian voted and voted largely peacefully. Where the majority of voters felt the president elected was a reflection of their votes at that time.

A president who has no military background, personally or in his close family. I think the old guard is beginning to lose its relevance in politics because of it....slowly but surely. There was a time when the likes of Babangida and OBJ were like backseat drivers. It seems less true now.

There are also individual states within Nigeria that have recorded achievements.

Just because Nigeria is not unrecognizable it does not mean there are no achievements at all.

There is also a groundwork being at least given attention to steer the country in a better way, and away from the past.

We have to wait and see what happens with the PIB and FIO, but the fact that oil companies are openly complaining and resisting means Nigeria is now trying to do what is in Nigeria's favour and not their own.

They would love the status quo to continue, where they just break of some crumbs for bribes to get their way. Obviously that is coming under threat. The enemy of your adversary is your friend.

Naxo