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Are you following up the US presidential election campaign and debates? What are your observations?



Have you heard Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump talk about how they will feed primary school students and employ 500,000 basic school teachers, if elected? Have you heard any of them talk about how they will construct roads, build power plants and manage universities?

Have you noticed that their campaign discussion (as future president) is focused on foreign policy, monetary policy, defense, immigration, etc?
The USA is a federal republic and under a federal system of govt, the president and his federal government has no business with certain issues that our president in Nigeria has over here.

The states and community governments are in charge of those duties that are essential to the people while the federal government deals with national and international issues and policies.
Nigeria is probably the only federal republic in the world where you will see a federal budget contain projects such as 'street lights, boreholes, employment of primary school teachers, construction of roads, etc.' Wetin concern federal government with borehole project? Only a greedy federal government does that.

What we practice in Nigeria is a skewed unitary military 'feeding bottle' system of government, not a federal system of government.
Overcentralization is destroying Nigeria. Abuja needs to stop this greediness and devolve economic and political powers to the governments closest to the people.
The 1999 Constitution is evil and is responsible for our problems, if not all our problems. Many people still think PDP or APC can fix Nigeria. The Constitution is our problem, not political parties or politicians.
Anyway, lets keep pretending...

True!!Nice piece, Nigeria needs a major restructuring and a total overhaul of its practises but sadly, who can step up to d task!!!

Even the APC led govt is doin a precarious job at trying to restructure dis country and they are falling woefully!!!!

It is well!!!

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abegi...which government dey closer to the people for nija...all of them from local to federal are far from the people, like the distance between the eyes of a mother and the baby in her womb..

You know nothing about American politics.
The school feeding program is back by the American federal government.
It was a campaign issue before the program started
Obama campaigned on making the food offered more healthy and he did make changes.
Clinton is campaigning to provide early child care.

oduastates:
You know nothing about American politics.
The school feeding program is back by the American federal government.
It was a campaign issue before the program started
Obama campaigned on making the food offered more healthy and he did make changes.
Clinton is campaigning to provide early child care.

Those are national issues that affect every single American. That is what federal policies mean.
You don't see them talking about localized issues like boreholes, erosion control for certain states , FG control of Texan and Alaskan oil, FG control of silicon valley and many other notable Nigerian BS.

For me, The only major difference btw America and Nigeria is the Spelling...Finish

Nigeria is running a unitary government...while the us is a federal state
We need to restructure this country or just split it