Ali Mazrui called it the "The Tripple Heritage" ; the tragedy that is the undoing of our Country Nigeria..read on:-
EVERY NIGERIAN THAT LOVES NIGERIA OUGHT TO READ THIS WITH PATIENCE.
The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is Nigeria.
The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).
When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, language, etc.
Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology.
Today, 80.5% of Indians are Hindus; 13.4% Muslims; 2.3% Christians; 1.9% Sikhs; 0.8% Buddhists, etc.
Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.”
It is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but rejected the British technology.
The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.
Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North.
Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria.
Today, the North has only Sharia Courts but no Customary Courts.
So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern
World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.
Long after the British and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up religious branches of their homegrown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries.
Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites.
In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria.
If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75% Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its country by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam.
In the East we have IPOB.
While in the South - South region, Mend, Avengers and so on destroying the Heart of our Nations Economy.
We are indeed a very religious people.
Meanwhile, while we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, shopping malls, hospitality, etc.
Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples.
It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother, sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path.
We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever.
But if it does not change hands, nothing gets done.
And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.”
Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.
One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the
morals in our society.
But it is not so.
The situation is that the more religious we get, more ungodly we become.
Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs.
Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.
We import the petroleum that we have in abundance, rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance, and even toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort.
Yet we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets.
It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive is it!
Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot cars as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado, without any iota of shame, in a country
where about 70 per cent live below poverty.
Private jets have become a common toy for many citizens who have no known business.
A nation that imports toothpicks and pins, flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education
and its sick people are running to India for treatment.
India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans
travelling to the country for medical treatment.
India has joined the nuclear powers. India has launched a successful mission to the moon.
Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.
I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.
Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166 million, while India has a population of about a billion.
Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups; India has more than 2000 ethnic groups.
Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions – Christianity and Islam; but India has many.
Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 56 years of independence; India has 65 years, while apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.
We need more godliness than religion; more work and less hope; and more action and less words.
Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now.
We as a people must positively change our attitude towards our dear country!
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Wisemfon:
Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject technology

We didn't get any technology from Brits. It's all their own propaganda after they could not get anything to malice India's image after our rise post independence.
Trains and basic automotives were not a very hard to manufacture thing. Most of small and poor independent countries had obtained this tech in early 20th century.

Indians made initial war rockets which were reverse engineered by British by name of (Congreve rockets) which eventually became basis of European missiles. We developed our Jiva and Ardhjiva system of calculus which was translated as trigonometry by British Edmund Gunter and became an integral part of advanced mathematics today.
And I'm not talking about conspiracy theories. If you will go through what British accept they got from India, list is so long. And the "technology" British love to brag about they brought India, their list won't exceed bloody trains which they brought for their VIP transport.

In fact, if you search about British inventions from 1600 to 2000, you will come to know that British themselves didn't have technologies. All their pride was to modify either German or French machines or steal some idea from Asian countries.
They do propaganda of liberating us from Muslims and unifying our country. But fact is that, Hindu Maratha empire controlled 80% of India and was moving ahead to control east pacific when British came.

Brits had to fight 6 wars with India before colonising us. They lost 5 wars with us and then made peace to stay in our country and sabotaged us from inside. Thereafter, they did pass laws to distribute separate societal structure that supports caste system and propagated about ending sati etc.. Our caste system had become dysfunctional, British revived it and spread rumours too to spread distrust among people.

Once again, our kings had banned Sati also long ago in 1500 & 1600s when Britain didn't even exist. If they wouldn't have come, India would have spanned from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia.

UK never did anything good to India nor UK was any great country in itself. They are just a bunch clever cheaters. It came as a friend but backstabbed us, stashed our money and ran away. There is no other contribution Britain has ever made to India. Anything good is just their propaganda to whitewash.

They still don't have anything and survive on America's mercy.

Goel:

We didn't get any technology from Brits. It's all their own propaganda after they could not get anything to malice India's image after our rise post independence.
Trains and basic automotives were not a very hard to manufacture thing. Most of small and poor independent countries had obtained this tech in early 20th century.

Indians made initial war rockets which were reverse engineered by British by name of (Congreve rockets) which eventually became basis of European missiles. We developed our Jiva and Ardhjiva system of calculus which was translated as trigonometry by British Edmund Gunter and became an integral part of advanced mathematics today.
And I'm not talking about conspiracy theories. If you will go through what British accept they got from India, list is so long. And the "technology" British love to brag about they brought India, their list won't exceed bloody trains which they brought for their VIP transport.

In fact, if you search about British inventions from 1600 to 2000, you will come to know that British themselves didn't have technologies. All their pride was to modify either German or French machines or steal some idea from Asian countries.
They do propaganda of liberating us from Muslims and unifying our country. But fact is that, Hindu Maratha empire controlled 80% of India and was moving ahead to control east pacific when British came.

Brits had to fight 6 wars with India before colonising us. They lost 5 wars with us and then made peace to stay in our country and sabotaged us from inside. Thereafter, they did pass laws to distribute separate societal structure that supports caste system and propagated about ending sati etc.. Our caste system had become dysfunctional, British revived it and spread rumours too to spread distrust among people.

Once again, our kings had banned Sati also long ago in 1500 & 1600s when Britain didn't even exist. If they wouldn't have come, India would have spanned from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia.

UK never did anything good to India nor UK was any great country in itself. They are just a bunch clever cheaters. It came as a friend but backstabbed us, stashed our money and ran away. There is no other contribution Britain has ever made to India. Anything good is just their propaganda to whitewash.

They still don't have anything and survive on America's mercy.

Wow! Just wow!!

Goel:

We didn't get any technology from Brits. It's all their own propaganda after they could not get anything to malice India's image after our rise post independence.
Trains and basic automotives were not a very hard to manufacture thing. Most of small and poor independent countries had obtained this tech in early 20th century.

Indians made initial war rockets which were reverse engineered by British by name of (Congreve rockets) which eventually became basis of European missiles. We developed our Jiva and Ardhjiva system of calculus which was translated as trigonometry by British Edmund Gunter and became an integral part of advanced mathematics today.
And I'm not talking about conspiracy theories. If you will go through what British accept they got from India, list is so long. And the "technology" British love to brag about they brought India, their list won't exceed bloody trains which they brought for their VIP transport.

In fact, if you search about British inventions from 1600 to 2000, you will come to know that British themselves didn't have technologies. All their pride was to modify either German or French machines or steal some idea from Asian countries.
They do propaganda of liberating us from Muslims and unifying our country. But fact is that, Hindu Maratha empire controlled 80% of India and was moving ahead to control east pacific when British came.

Brits had to fight 6 wars with India before colonising us. They lost 5 wars with us and then made peace to stay in our country and sabotaged us from inside. Thereafter, they did pass laws to distribute separate societal structure that supports caste system and propagated about ending sati etc.. Our caste system had become dysfunctional, British revived it and spread rumours too to spread distrust among people.

Once again, our kings had banned Sati also long ago in 1500 & 1600s when Britain didn't even exist. If they wouldn't have come, India would have spanned from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia.

UK never did anything good to India nor UK was any great country in itself. They are just a bunch clever cheaters. It came as a friend but backstabbed us, stashed our money and ran away. There is no other contribution Britain has ever made to India. Anything good is just their propaganda to whitewash.

They still don't have anything and survive on America's mercy.

british gave you two most precious things. democracy and english language. you indian can look down on china simply by these two.

BTW, your trains still run on late 19th gift from whites.

India has historically been a successful country, infact the american continent was discovered because they were trying to get to india

So comparing India with Nigeria simply isn't fair