[b]Written by Omoh Gabriel
Sunday, 04 November 2007
THREE years after the World Bank characterised and listed Nigeria as a fragile state, the country remains so listed in a 2007 study report alongside Burundi, Cambodia, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Kosovo (territory) and Lao PDR.


Other countries on the list are Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Tajikistan Timor-Lest, Togo, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Angola, Central African Republic, Haiti, Liberia, Myanmar, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe.

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This is a challenge to every citizen of Nigeria.

oh boy!!!

I read a guy on that vanguard Newspaper who was commneting on the report and all he can say as the solution to the probem is Hail Biafra.

I have said it number without times that if the Igbo's have Biafra today it will not solve their perceived problem or so called marginalisation.

We have a country called Nigeria and the only solution to the problem is to find a way to make it work. The world leading economy like and fear us at the same time. They like us because we are there dumping ground for their products and consumer goods and they fear us in that if we were to wake up one day and got our acts together we may become a threat in a number of ways to them.

As a consequence they will like us to remain the way we are including press propaganda (that we are not good)- not that we are that good anyway but they rub it in and it can only depress the ordinary person on the street and our so called leaders cared less as long as they have fat swiss bank account.


If the Igbo's want as they have already been doing use all of their own resources to ensure development in their region that is a better way of sending the right message to the country at large.

The reason why we are at this position at this point in time is simply because our so call leaders are not leading anything, they are just chop chop.

Until we do 3 things ( apart of finding ways to make every part of the country part of the country)

1. Energy /power solution immediate.

2. Transport network

3. Zonal businesess Areas for business and industrial development

We should for once prove those negative melody singer wrong.

Do we have what it takes and can we do it? only time will tell.

Yes indeed Nigeria is a fragile state (as they have been generous not call us a failed state) and we are just been enjoying the Grace of God otherwise things will have fallen apart big time.

As our brothers up north will say

Allah e dey

Even with $50 billion in the "external" reserves and another $80 trillion loot by Nigerian politicians? Impossible!!!!!

vigasimple:

I read a guy on that vanguard Newspaper who was commneting on the report and all he can say as the solution to the probem is Hail Biafra.

I have said it number without times that if the Igbo's have Biafra today it will not solve their perceived problem or so called marginalisation.

We have a country called Nigeria and the only solution to the problem is to find a way to make it work. The world leading economy like and fear us at the same time. They like us because we are there dumping ground for their products and consumer goods and they fear us in that if we were to wake up one day and got our acts together we may become a threat in a number of ways to them.

As a consequence they will like us to remain the way we are including press propaganda (that we are not good)- not that we are that good anyway but they rub it in and it can only depress the ordinary person on the street and our so called leaders cared less as long as they have fat swiss bank account.

I think you spend too much time believing that the world leading economies go to bed at night dreaming and praying that Nigeria never wakes up. On the contrary, considering the number of investments from many of these countries, I believe it would be to there advantage that the country wakes up. Take a look at south africa and how investors from these same economies flock there every year to put as much as they can into it. It would be to the best of even africa and the fight against terrorism if Nigeria were better than it is today. Speak of the advantages, they outweigh the so called disadvantages. Infact, being a dumping ground could actually become our gold if we knew how to turn out that way.