Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,197,915 members, 7,966,397 topics. Date: Friday, 04 October 2024 at 01:53 PM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! (29855 Views)
Sallah: NATCOM DG, Dr. Baba Mohammed Felicitates With Nigerians / New Year: NATCOM Boss Felicitates With Nigerians / Best Places To Generally Meet Girls In Lahore & Dating Guide (2) (3) (4)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (Reply) (Go Down)
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by ponti93(m): 11:44am On Oct 22, 2018 |
An insightful write up |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by EMIOMOADEOYE: 11:47am On Oct 22, 2018 |
daveP: Actually its not Nigerians alsone Its the Human race in its entirety. Humans generally are selfish and non conformist in nature Where there is no fear of retribution, anarchy holds sway. If it was possible to remove all law enforcement modules in climes like US or UK, dont be surprised that the same thing will happen there. Infact it will. There is reason why its called law ENFORCEment. Make sure that the law is being observed. Otherwise, there was no point making the law in the first place. 2 Likes |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Quincykay: 12:01pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
You'll see someone driving without seat belt. They'll only put it on to avoid getting harassed by police, not to save their lives. THE HUGE IRONY is you'll see the children in the back without seat belts and the police will wave them by because the driver has his belt on. That simply means neither the driver or police fully understand the concept of seat belt. 2 Likes |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Shelumiel: 12:03pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Fhowe:It seem you and I are not on the same page in terms of the situational context of the word "carefree ". Kindly define yours |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Trottle: 12:08pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
mechouk1: I wish I could 'like' your post multiples times, very similar to my position. In sane Countries Dr. Ahmed will be rooted for massively, but instead, they chose a "dollar man". I repeat, until a Patriotic, disciplined and no nonsense leader is massively supported, we are going no where. Nigeria does not need a "politically correct " leader. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Muzikluva(m): 12:10pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
winj3:Man you just spoke my mind! |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Shelumiel: 12:18pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
lexy2014:You should have told me you know nothing regarding this matter . But let me drop hard facts for you :Nigeria's has a population of 180 million of which 86.9 million are living in extreme poverty . This implies that roughly 50% of the population is living under extreme poverty. This also means that in every 10 people you see on the road , 5 are extremely poor (not poor ) . While the remaining(50%) fall within the rich and middle class ,of which, the middle class still forms less than 40% of that population . Hence more poor people than rich people in Nigeria ; hence more illiterates than literates; hence less graduates . Shalom |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by 2019elections: 12:26pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
sCun: U should know that was a typographic error. I meant literacy not illiteracy in d first paragraph |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by pacespot(m): 12:31pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Famzer: Must we always reference bad examples to justify our actions? Though you have a point that we should rather be doing than talking. That guy gave analyses that typify the true nature of Nigerian problems, the analyses which are the banes of our development as a country. I heard someone saying our problem is poverty, he should go to some south-east Asian countries or some remote areas in India to know what true poverty is, don't forget that China was once poorer than Nigeria in terms of per capita GDP. Our number one problem is INDICIPLINE, and a little bit of a civilization problem. I know Nigerians will want to justify for that by saying Nigerians are hardworking. You cannot say you're hardworking while you're indiciplined. DICIPLINE is the true meaning of hardwork. I'm one of the people who questioned our transition to democracy, because democracy is the most advanced system of governance that is best fitted for civilized people. Even communism will need heavy handedness to work on Nigerians. So when you have a group of people that are not civilized but think they know better than civilized people through yahoo-yahoo, you will have a country like Nigeria. 3 Likes |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Sleekfingers: 12:42pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
We are our own problems....and if we don't change our attitudes...nothing is going to change....or are we expecting some other countries to come and fix our country for us... Even the so called God have abandoned this country....Nigeria is not a serious country at all.....Malaysia and Singapore comes to mind... Na to Dey call one yeye Yahweh God to come to our rescue.....no be the same God created china, USA, Saudi Arabia, England,, uae. ? Yeye people |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by SANDAT(m): 12:43pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
greatcrown:Did you just say engage Mercenaries. These mercenaries will be Nigerians for sure. Am sure they will end up collecting money and freeing offenders. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Jaqenhghar: 12:44pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Amhappy:Can you imagine. Then they will turn round and be blaming leaders. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by themanderon: 12:45pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
dohyn: Funnily enough I had the same experience on that road last Friday. People trying to jump lanes, overtaking here and there passing through one way like its your right. Everything is just wrong we spent more the an hour trying to cross from agege back to the express leading to oshodi. It was hell that day. Surviving in Lagos is a miracle the hold up can kill. The government seems to be helpless and clueless over this situation. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by joe120120(m): 1:04pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
daveP: Thank u brother. we need a leader that is focus on progress of Nigeria with economic background |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by daveP(m): 1:19pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
zelaws:I wonder who even approved that nonsense placement. or If the traffic light isn't in the right place and height. SMH!! This is Nigeria!! |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Nobody: 1:20pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
daveP: First of all we don't need Buhari again. Secondly, Poverty n Lack of education is the reason why all u listed happens. 1 Like |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Walphem(m): 1:22pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Nigeria's situation is similar to many other countries, ours may be prominent in the areas of poor maintenance, I can bet you this thing didnt start overnight..it must have taken a small event to cause the "tip" if we dig deep it may be during the civil war of even before then...until we start loving ourseselves and see each and everyone as "brothers and sisters" we can't change our maintenance culture. At present the our culture is based on avarice and selfishness. We need to change our curriculum; it must appreciate love, our religion must preach love, our system must embrace love. Until then no matter what you do in your corner the next selfish man will destroy it. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Quigley: 1:22pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Nigerians are like kids that need instant gratification. Build a university and hospital well equipped for Nigeria, they will not remember you, but share 5k to them, and oh you are the Messiah. We as a society loves money and demand things instantly instead of enjoying what those money can do instead. Why did you think Buhari decided to share the Abacha loot? He understands Nigerians. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by lexy2014: 1:59pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Shelumiel: I can c that u no a lot about this matter. So tell me how did u do ur research 2 have come about these figures? What was ur methodology in coming 2d conclusion "that in every 10 people you see on the road , 5 are extremely poor (not poor)"? Where was ur study location and who were ur study population? Who endorsed ur study as valid? Or u just sat down somewhere 2b calculating what u read from someone else's study? So how do all these grammar u have written answer d questions about d number of poor people that steal compared with d number of rich people that steal? How does all ur grammar explain y some Nigerians like 2 beat traffic light or y some corpers throw their waste in d drains? |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by poiZon: 2:25pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
daveP:u dey mind the guy. what will he say abt just concluded osun election where people sold their votes to the highest bidder not askng questions whr they got the money. even when people n groups even inec frown abt vote buying n selling? if u come to uyo, the road that links the godswill stadium, the entire stretch of that road has been thrown into darkness due to vandals stealing all the battery from thT solar street light. this is a road that almost connect a police headquRTERS IN UYO. most times i think nigeria needs to be recolonise. our forefathers were too quick to seek for independence. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Shelumiel: 2:58pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
lexy2014:Sir ,I did not come up with these figures ; they were published by international bodies who went round Africa with a view of knowing the number of poor people dwelling in Sub-Saharan African . I believe you read newspapers and have been also been following reports from the World's Poverty Index made available by Brookings Institution . Of recent they published an article on how Nigeria's poverty level has gone beyond India's . Here is the excerpts : http://saharareporters.com/2018/06/25/nigeria-overtakes-india-country-highest-number-extremely-poor-people-world. Poverty is the root cause of most of the lawless deeds we have in Nigeria . A poor man is not conscious of what he does ; he only conscious of his survival . If poverty is eradicated , the mindset of people will be changed . Shalom 1 Like |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by CHoccolaTE: 3:03pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Amhappy: Lwkmd what village is that? |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Litmus: 3:15pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
daveP: Op nothing wrong with Nigerians. On the contrary the wrong is in the Providers. Providers of all the amenities the Nigerians misappropriated in one form or another were either short-sighted, naive or plainly wilful. Right about now nearly a century of West’s attempts at enabling disparate third world societies, which they encountered and initially exploited, have passed. You’d think therefor that the world is now experienced enough to know how to ameliorate conditions such as the ones in your article. And, indeed, they do, which is why my first sentence exonerated the Nigerians. Keeping this short: firstly, it is known now that superimposed culture more than not fails. Secondly, in order to mitigate chances of such failures, Providers have to implement an entire infrastructure a sort of technical ecosystem if you like. The saying, ‘give a man a fish, feeds him for a day but teach a man to fish, serves him an entire lifetime” is illustrative. However, the world knows now that further is always required. For instance, teaching the community how to fish does not go far enough when presumably the community used to hunt bush meat and share it among themselves in the community, supplementing the meat with local vegetable. This became difficult because national government agreed with outside world assessment that wildlife needs protecting and subsequently dispensed newly created armed wildlife wardens. Faced with a changing world with which they are unable to successfully adapt, the community became impoverished. Teaching them how to fish without creating an economic system markedly different form that of hunting bush meat, which fishing is similar to, when the real problem is that the world is moving away from subsistence living, will create situations where the locals act like the Nigerians you are condemning. The locals, finding fishing insufficiently compensatory, may well turn the expensive fishing rods, nets and boats provided by Western Providers into bows, dresses and ritual huts respectively. And you may swoon to discover that the locals spend the best part of days praying for food in the boats turned into ritual huts. If things are to work, don’t provided them in isolation, provide them with systems. Fishing rods, nets, boats (yes) but also lessons in how to sell surplus fishes, roads to the markets of larger towns, craft schools for how to make rods, nets and mend boats etc |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by dabossman(m): 4:39pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
daveP: I believe it is a poverty of the mind more than that of the pocket. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Billionaire09: 4:45pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Shelumiel: Even Nigeria government officials are all doing it as well. Seeing government agencies on roads driving one way, littering rubbish and taking hard drugs/smoking around the road. So pathetic. People behaviors derived from Nigeria systems. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Shelumiel: 4:55pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Billionaire09:True. But poverty is still behind majority |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Windflower(f): 4:58pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Shelumiel:It's not poverty, I used to think in that direction but it's not. It's called home training. We were all given different home training. I teach in a public school and I see diverse traits in children from different homes. Some would prefer to litter the class when there is a dust bin in front of the class. Some behave like animals. While some are the complete opposite. A boy mistakenly spilled another child's water on the floor. Do you know what he did? He apologized, got mopping stick to clean the floor and replaced the water he spilled. He did all these on his own without anybody reporting him. Now that's a rare gem over there, he is not more than nine years, whereas I know some child in my class would do the opposite of what the boy did. when I traced the boy, it's turns out the boy father is a teacher. I am also a testimony, my parents raised me with nothing and I am still a cool headed person. During my camp days in Nysc a gurl from a rich home would litter the whole room and even pass faeces in the room. It's not about poverty, it's about individual differences and upbringing. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Windflower(f): 4:59pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
dabossman:Exactly, I would say exposure too |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by daveP(m): 5:12pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
dabossman:And the one of the mind has wires that transmit current to affect and bring forth poverty of the pocket. lol. It's a pity!!! Anywhere you go, the big man feels he is entitled. And more or less in reversal, once people several a potbellied man in a luxury car, they quickly switch on the mental slavery mode so he can "drop something" Every he goes he is aware someone too wants to worship the sand beneath his shoes..... cycle goes on. |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by daveP(m): 5:19pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
EVILFOREST:Its best to take no sides on such a general issue like discussed here. I know the problem my own tribal people contribute as well. I can't because I belong to such tribe be hiding their flaws like they're some saint. This is even part of the issues highlighted above. This helps no one!! Since I was young and now I'm getting old, this same old nemesis of segregation has produce not one progress!!! Be livid and think deeper pls!!!! |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Shelumiel: 5:24pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
Windflower:Most people who engage in lawlessness come from backgrounds riddled with poverty; this a fact that has been proven by making studies into the lives of criminals and miscreants. Even upbringing (whether good or bad ) is still a function of how poor or rich a person background is . I remember taking a survey of kids from my own class . Most of those who spoke and behaved properly came from homes that were well to do(financially) ...they were conscious of what they were doing; their minds were more focus on other things other than survival (which happens to be what the poor man's focus is always on) . The point I am trying to make is : if poverty is checkmated, then moral decline in our society would reduce drastically . |
Re: Something Is Generally Wrong With Nigerians!!! by Toseenlove: 7:12pm On Oct 22, 2018 |
sCun: Look at these one spewing Thrash.
|
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (Reply)
PHOTO: Which Of These Is More Creative? / 7 Things Every Man Must Know Before He Clocks 40 / The Crocodile My Friends And I Killed At Enugu River Side
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 110 |