flexyrule:
Being too religious - I give you a loan, time to pay up you start telling me "by God's grace"... Was God there when I gave you a loan? And I know that your salaries have been paid, you have withdrawn the money and you're telling me about God's grace.

People would rather tarry in churches and other religious place of worship to fast and pray about Nigeria's problems, but simple things like paying their taxes, obeying traffic, returning lost items to the owners and all of what the OP listed above is a problem.

Nepotism and tribalism... Go to some offices, the whole place seems like a villiage market. You can tell who the DG or head of a unit of a particular MDA is by ethnicity of majority of the staff there. If a yoruba man is the DG... That ministry would be an extension of Ogbomosho LGA secretariat. If it's an IGBO, then expect an ARIA-RIA market setting, Hausa... You'll think the office is the National mosque liason office.
They don't advertise vacancies, they just slot in their relatives and kinsmen whether qualified or not. That's why our public service is the worst in the whole world!


Over dependency on luck and favour instead of skill and hardwork.
Majority of Nigerians believe you must be lucky or favoured to make it. They don't believe in hardwork and skill. That's why we're always relying on prayers for things God has already bestowed us with the ability to accomplish.

Nice one

The list largely discribes the human condition, which is why functioning nations all have in common functioning judicial system. Modern societies cannot rely on the product alone of primary socialisation such as manners derived from the family and ways of group coexistence began at school. It is to Nigeria's ethnic cultural socialisation great credit that Nigeria has survived so far virtually in the absence of law and order intrinsic in a functional judicial industry.

No, for me the primary cause of Nigeria's lack of greatness is the same as that which is the cause of Africa and the black worlds lack of greatness and that is diminished presence of Imagination. The frightening thing is that even then, Nigerians seem to have more imagination than the other African and Black nations.

Very nice write-up, Olumyco.

Well done so much.

How I wish that woman wey dey stay behind my flat can see this post.

Then maybe, she will stop selling MTN 100 recharge card to me for 110.

dis rubbish can not change nigeria

Aikon:
Nice one. although you didn't mention some key points such as African Time, paying ones way through, asking for tips for any little favour and so on

True

This list is incomplete without fraud, drug pushing, prostitution, kidnappings, ritual killing, 419 etc. These has brought Nigeria's global brand to the muds.

quentin06:
i think you re being unfair to the average Nigerian citizen here, after all they re only copying what they see their leaders doing.

They saw their leaders throw viju milk bottles into the drainage?

Weathered:
Never read a stupider thread than this.

* Nigerian leaders don't obey traffic lights

* Prison , police, military, civil defence all use siren to oppress other road users and pedestrians

* Same set of Nigerian leaders obey the domestic rules when they go abroad.

* Nigerian citizens subsidise security, water, electricity and fuel

Maybe it's our fault our roads are death traps, no refineries and we're 6th oil producing country in the world.

No hospital, our leaders fly abroad to treat headache.

Our higher institutions are a mess.

You be idiot.

These leaders, did they jump down from another planet? Are they not Nigerians? These leaders were once like you and I breaching the laws, behaving anyhow... so what do you expect when they get to the corridors of power.

You are nursing a Child and you think you can take away bad character from him when he is grown... instead of taking him or her when he is still young

If we Nigerians cant work on these attitudes and change, I am afraid we can never produce a good leader. That's the implication.

We want good leaders.... where will they come from? Are they not going to come from us.

We need to think and change. We are our own problem

I just wish every Nigerian will read this



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get ur website for 5K only. See my signature

With all due respect you are not intelligent, our core problem is wewe've lost 'socail values' stop all this all long talk..na wa, we too like grammar for this country.

Olumyco:
Nigeria's problem is not Leadership but 70% of her citizens and 30% of her system. Drop bad attitude today and watch 70% of our country's problem disappear.

There have been talks and discussions on how Nigeria can come out of her numerous problems. To me I think we need to first begin with change of attitude. Our mindsets/mentalities are not right and these have affected our attitudes. I believe if we can change our attitudes, the larger part of our problems will be solved. Below are ten attitudes every Nigerian out there needs to work on and drop.

1. Most Nigerians are found of the habit of throwing things like plastic bottles, sachets of pure water and so on around which litter the environment. This is a bad attitude that we must drop. When you finish drinking a sachet of pure water, don't throw it to the ground. Keep it in your pocket or inside your bag and dispose it properly into a dust bin or a dump site. We most complain that our cities and towns are dirty but we have failed to acknowledge the fact that we are responsible for this. We complain of poor drainage system but the not too good ones we have are being packed with wastes by us and this often leads to flooding. If you and I learn to dispose those things we dont need again properly it will help our environment. Pouring dirty water on the road, throwing shells of fruits on the ground and so on are some of the bad attitudes we need to drop as a good citizen.

2. Drivers and Car Owners in Nigeria are found of disobeying traffic rules by using "One Way" concept to skip traffic on the normal road they are in. This is bad. Driving through One Way as people would say is a bad attitude. Nigerians should learn to be patient. This bad attitude has cost us more evil than good. We blame our leaders for our problem in this country but we fail to realise we are our own problem. Is it President Buhari that said you should go and take "One Way"? And why must our Government spend so much to enforce law on the people?
As a driver or a car owner, never drive through one way. Irrespective of how intense the "hold up" is. Obey traffic rules

3. Nigerians are found of this habit of displaying impatience by jumping queues. You just came and then go to the front to start begging someone to allow you enter or want to force your way through. This is very bad.
Never jump a queue. Don't go and talk to your friend to allow you to stay at his front or at his back. It's a bad attitude. Learn to respect people who came before you. Learn to be patient to queue at the back of the last person on the queue.

4. Nigerians like 'awoof'. We always want to achieve things without paying money. Stop this attitude. It is bad. When there is a service or product that requires money, please pay. If you don't have, wait till you will have. Look at the Electricity issue in Nigeria. Non-payment of electricity bills is one of the problems. Also illegal connection is another issue. Develop a mindset that paying for a service you are benefiting from is the best. Government is not Nigeria's problem but the attitude of the people. Stop looking for free things. Try and always pay for what you need and want. Look at our private schools, a parent will put his child in this type of school and refuse to pay but can pay for Aso Ebi when a ceremony arises. How will the school pay salaries to their staffs? Some Youths wants a situation where by they can call or browse without paying... looking for cheap code up and down, even desiring that the credit codes of these our telecom companies leak out and then begin to use it. We need to change our mindset on this, so that we will not be part of this country's problem.


5. Nigerians have this mindset that the law is made for the poor and not the rich. They believe with money you can breach the law and bribe your way through. This is a bad attitude.
Stop bribing your way out of the breach of the law. Pay penalties when you breach the law. You don't have driver's license and you are driving and now you are caught and instead of you to ask for the penalty and do the right thing, you are bringing out money to bribe. It is bad. Nigerians should stop giving law enforcement agencies money. Try and know the law and the fines. Many Nigerians always put up this contempt attitude against the law. They just do things anyhow with the hope that if anything happens they will pay bribe. All in the name of "Money Stops Nonsense".
The problem of corruption begins with this bad attitude. People who pay bribes are liable to collect it too when the opportunity comes. Desist from doing this. Pay fines, royalties, charges and whatever you are required to pay when you fall victim of the law or use a service. The World will not collapse on you for doing this.

6. Nigerians have this I don't care attitude. You see an inscription that says "No Parking" and you went ahead to park there. What's the meaning of that? You see "No Hawking" and you go ahead to hawk there. Nigerians should desist from this bad attitude of I don't care. Be observant of rules inscribed on sign posts or walls or whatever around you and obey.

7. Many Road Users like pedestrians, drivers, hawkers, riders and so on have this bad attitude of anger. You and I must have witnesse one driver calling another driver "Fool", "Animal" and so on... even cursing the person. This is not good. It is true that someone one the road might have done something wrong, if you cannot correct him politely please keep quiet and go your way. Also if you were insulted or cursed on the road, ignore, don't talk and go your way. If you know you have made a mistake on the road, say sorry. Learn to admit and apologise. We are our own problem. This bad attitude of insulting and cursing another road user can result to a terrible fight. It can even cause hold up on the high way. Why should we be behaving like this? The insult or the curse won't affect you. Just ignore the person and see the person as not being matured and move on. A matured person should be able to control his or her emotions.

8. Going to the house of a Politician or a rich person to hail, bow and beg for money is a bad attitude. This is one of the reasons we are backward. Stop making these people look like they have solutions to your problems. Stop collecting fish. Learn to catch fish yourself. This is very common with Street boys, Thugs and people in the small towns and villages. When a politician or a rich man is passing or goes to his village, the next thing you see is people flocking around the person. It's a bad attitude. It takes thinking outside the box to see that this thing is wrong. This bad attitude has enthrown thuggery and God Fatherism in our country.

Also is begging someone for money indirectly by hailing him and asking him for what he brought for you. This is common with gatemen, people/officers who work at Airports, non-teaching staffs who work at tertiary institutions and so on. Learn to believe in yourself and work for your own money and stop depending on someone.

9. Extorting People is another bad attitude common with Nigerians. A taxi driver during rainfall can decide to inflate the transport fare just for nothing. Imagine a seller saying a bread of 100 naira is 300 naira just because he or she sees you as a stranger or from another tribe or that you are desperate about it. It's bad looking for money this way. Products or Services that have fixed price should not be inflated for any reason. It is cheating. You are taking advantage of the person by leveraging on circumstances surrounding the person at that time.

10. The whole attitude problem can be summed up in one sentence as "Achieving a goal easily and quickly without following due process". Many Nigerians hate "Due Process". We want fast things. We want quick money. We want easy money. No one wants to labour following due process. No one wants to do the right thing. May God help us.
If we don't drop these bad attitudes, it will be difficult for us to develop as a nation.
Many people are ignorant of the fact that Leadership is not our problem but the attitude of the citizens. Even the leaders come from the citizens, so the problem is taking everywhere. A Nigerian is always a Nigerian and no matter the position he or she occupies whether low or high he will continue to cause problem for the country.
The rubbish throwers, queue jumpers, one way drivers, indirect beggars, extortioners etc are part of our problem in this country. So are The Almajiris, the Agberos, the Omo Oniles, Thugs, Cultists and other evil people.

In conclusion, before you step out of your house in the morning always take time and ruminate over those bad attitudes you are using to cause problem for this great nation and then make up your mind to desist from doing them. Tell yourself, I want to be a good citizen by doing the right thing always. I must not be part of this country's problem any more. Then step out do your work, earn your money, help someone, be happy and make your environment a better place. If every Nigerian can do this and become good citizens, 70% of our problem will die a natural death and Nigeria will become very developed.

God bless Nigeria and her people.

Thanks.

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quentin06:
i think you re being unfair to the average Nigerian citizen here, after all they re only copying what they see their leaders doing.

Copying who? Who are the leaders? They were followers many years ago. It's like a circle.

We are behaving like this because of our mindset. We need overhauling. We need to start speaking and correcting ourselves

JonDon12:
11. Stop being Nigerians.

12. Start using your sense.

Nigerians suck

Make leaders first change their ways, Empower institutions that will work, proper renumeration for it's officers, maximum sanction for unethical practices.

Nigerians will adjust. Nobody likes to comply rules including whitey

Demzlent:
our problem is leadership stop making excuses for them nigerians developed these altitudes as a way of getting out of the hardship the leaders put on them

How is it leadership when our attitude is bad. Take Nigerians to US and Bring Americans to Nigeria and watch what will happen.

Nigerians with these bad attitude will easily destroy the country. And Americans will easily develop Nigeria.

It is mentality issue.

See, if we can change these attitudes first... our remaining problem which is systemic will easily be solved.

With good attitude and a good system, even a bad leader will still perform.

Then get this right,Nigeria cant have a good leader without first having good citizens.

You need to think

Seunpaul01:
Truly, Nigeria still have a long way to go. Most times I would say comparing Nigeria to USA and other small developed world is wrong. Because they have gained independence a long time before Nigeria eg. USA. Nevertheless, there are some other developed country such as China with little difference in year of Independence and other developing nation like Ghana that are still in some way better than Nigeria.

The fact that cannot be argued is that, 90% of Nigerians are the problem of their country. The manner and acts some people exhibit in this country is so pathetic, uncivilized, stupid and any sort of bad adjectives that could go with the exact act being displayed.

Thus, I think if we can start mentioning these bad and stupid habits of Nigerians that really shows how bad the future seems for Nigerians. It could help majority and put Nigeria on the right path to greatness. Remember, the impact of a better country can only begin to show only when the people of the Nation, poor or rich, educated or not, regardless of ethnicity changed their ways.

I will start with few things i've noticed - those that I can remember, that made me SMH for this nation.

a. Saw a comment on a topic on Nairaland about Things Our Android Phones can do that most are not aware of. The commenter concur to the usefulness of the information and at the same time regard it as useless. Makes me SMH for this country.

b. I see some people that call themselves educated in my institution but prefer to pack their car on the grass and destroyed the place by doing so. Makes me SMH for this country.

c. Getting to lecture rooms of students of the higher institution and seeing how dirty it is kept. Some will finished eating and drop the food pack in the lecture room. This makes me SMH for this country.

d. The manners at which Nigerians drop dirt anywhere they are make me SMH for the country.

e. Almost all students in SUG and other school groups embezzle most/all the fund allocated to them. This makes me SMH for this Nation.

And so on.....

God bless you

Who cares about its greatness in the first place

Government shud be able to investigate the source of wealth even if illegal let’s the government know how it’s gotten for accountability and promoting social and political values. People with shady or questionable sources shudnt be close to government and public service and funds.

good writeup God bless Nigeria

blacq2009:
This list is incomplete without fraud, drug pushing, prostitution, kidnappings, ritual killing, 419 etc. These has brought Nigeria's global brand to the muds.

Exactly these are the problems. The mentality of I want to buy Benz without working to earn money legitimately is the problem. Nigerians want quick money. Something is not right with us.

The government need to add attitude/behavioural acts as courses to our school system.

People of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

Someone who has been paying bribes in schools, offices etc will collect bribe when he gets to the position of leadership. That's how it is.

Nigeria can't have a good leader without first having good citizens

Ekpekus:

Well written but I will add one fundamental one..
ENFORCING THE LAW irrespective of who/where the person comes from.
Whoever breaks the law should be dealt with accordingly.. this will go a long way to help.
People do things, not because there are no laws but because they have the mindset of "nothing dey happen".. if something actually happens when we break the law, everybody go sit up straight.
Like for China, if you are found guilty of corruption, irrespective of who you are, na jail straight.. abeg nor dey, I dey sick I wan go abroad for medical checkup nor dey.. you dey go jail.

But with our ethnicity/religion differences, even if the government did d right thing in sanction the offenders, those against their reign will surely come against them.

flexyrule:
Being too religious - I give you a loan, time to pay up you start telling me "by God's grace"... Was God there when I gave you a loan? And I know that your salaries have been paid, you have withdrawn the money and you're telling me about God's grace.

People would rather tarry in churches and other religious place of worship to fast and pray about Nigeria's problems, but simple things like paying their taxes, obeying traffic, returning lost items to the owners and all of what the OP listed above is a problem.

Nepotism and tribalism... Go to some offices, the whole place seems like a villiage market. You can tell who the DG or head of a unit of a particular MDA is by ethnicity of majority of the staff there. If a yoruba man is the DG... That ministry would be an extension of Ogbomosho LGA secretariat. If it's an IGBO, then expect an ARIA-RIA market setting, Hausa... You'll think the office is the National mosque liason office.
They don't advertise vacancies, they just slot in their relatives and kinsmen whether qualified or not. That's why our public service is the worst in the whole world!


Over dependency on luck and favour instead of skill and hardwork.
Majority of Nigerians believe you must be lucky or favoured to make it. They don't believe in hardwork and skill. That's why we're always relying on prayers for things God has already bestowed us with the ability to accomplish.

Actually the problem is religion abuse not being too religious.

There's no religion that asks a person to delay debts. And there's no religion that promotes laziness.

I'm a Muslim and I have many things I discredit about Christianity but I'm certain that the Bible doesn't preach all of the above.

The Christians follow their desires and then interpolate the scripture to suite their desires.

semyman:
WAEC why?
Found of
Or
Fond of?

One of them. See them. Na them, Wole Soyinka's younger brother. Out of everything, this is what you learn irritating correction yet you attended a school or schools. What is important in English? Communication or language?

Well, I will not entirely agree with this your view, a brother once told me that an average American didn't just obey the law, but because there is a system in place where by when you commit a crime of £5, you paid £1000 fine without any exclusion to anybody they were cause to obey the law. The problem is not the citizens it is leadership and the system.

loud it pls

These are pedestrian issues.
They won't make the country great.
They are altruistic, but not going to lead to greatness.

seunoj:
Make leaders first change their ways, Empower institutions that will work, proper renumeration for it's officers, maximum sanction for unethical practices.

Nigerians will adjust. Nobody likes to comply rules including whitey

We need to first change. We produce leaders. They dont jump down from planet Mars.

With bad attitude even with good drainage system we will still soil it with nylon, bottles and co.

Even if law enforcement agents are sent around to upload cleanliness law, they will still collect bribe and the who infrastructure collapses again.

The little infrastructure we have, if we all obey the law and maintain them, you think it's not enough for us to boast of

Besides what do you expect from someone of age 50 years who has been disobeying rules. It means the person must have been throwing plastic bottles into our gutters for like 45 years. It means he has been bribing for 45 years. It means he has been jumping queues for 45 years....in short he has been disobeying laws for about 45 years. Now he or she becomes a governor or president....so how will the person perform?

We need to correct the problem now. All these bad attitudes are exported to Aso rock and our governor houses. A leader can't perform with these bad attitudes.

The fundamental problem is these bad attitude.

A refined person who have a right mindset will not misbehave when he gets to power.

Nigerians think and understand these things

no 4 is favour. mbok!

Dat list is incomplete without;
*Religious Bigotry and extremism.

K1famous:
Well, I will not entirely agree with this your view, a brother once told me that an average American didn't just obey the law, but because there is a system in place where by when you commit a crime of £5, you paid £1000 fine without any exclusion to anybody they were cause to obey the law. The problem is not the citizens it is leadership and the system.

The citizens produce the leader. We cant have a good leader without first having good citizens.

I dont know if what the person said is true. But I know an American will not go to a country like Nigeria and drink pure water and throw the sachet on the road.

They will not bribe also.... let's think. They have their problem and they are mostly immorality problem but for these bad attitudes..... they don't behave like us. We need to change our mentalities.

fkj950ax:
These are pedestrian issues.
They won't make the country great.
They are altruistic, but not going to lead to greatness.

Prove...

So if the country spend a huge amount of money to build a drainage system and people turn it to a dump site...so what will you say

flexyrule:
Being too religious - I give you a loan, time to pay up you start telling me "by God's grace"... Was God there when I gave you a loan? And I know that your salaries have been paid, you have withdrawn the money and you're telling me about God's grace.

People would rather tarry in churches and other religious place of worship to fast and pray about Nigeria's problems, but simple things like paying their taxes, obeying traffic, returning lost items to the owners and all of what the OP listed above is a problem.

Nepotism and tribalism... Go to some offices, the whole place seems like a villiage market. You can tell who the DG or head of a unit of a particular MDA is by ethnicity of majority of the staff there. If a yoruba man is the DG... That ministry would be an extension of Ogbomosho LGA secretariat. If it's an IGBO, then expect an ARIA-RIA market setting, Hausa... You'll think the office is the National mosque liason office.
They don't advertise vacancies, they just slot in their relatives and kinsmen whether qualified or not. That's why our public service is the worst in the whole world!


Over dependency on luck and favour instead of skill and hardwork.
Majority of Nigerians believe you must be lucky or favoured to make it. They don't believe in hardwork and skill. That's why we're always relying on prayers for things God has already bestowed us with the ability to accomplish.

you have said it all