IF YOU ARE A NIGERIAN READ THIS WITH PATIENCE [PART ONE]

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 in suit.
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 home-grown 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.
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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 as common as cars.
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. ..
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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 wrecking havoc. 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, the baser we become. ..[TO BE CONTUNUED ]

lmao.. lol.. Well that's what makes Nigeria unique.. And her citizens really need some serious spanking

Lol. First of all dont compare nigeria and india biko weare two different set of folks. This writeup makes sense and in the same vein is such a useless writeup which makes its total beautiful nonsense.
Firstly, you cannot adapt a certain local language as official in nigeria as you can see that we speak different types of languages in the country. Adapting one subjects the others to some form of neglect and problems in the future. That is why if we were practicing full federalism in nigeria just like Switzerland that has four official languages , it would have been a different story entirely. But you know what, we are not practimg what we should be practisng and that is why i would keep saying that nigeria being a whole is a scam!

On an aside, ipob is not the problem of the SE like the way you are clasisifying boko haram and militancy.. they are only a movement that are agitating for their country and not in a violent manner...

..Nigeria needs to be re- colonised from scratch and made away with religion
it's as simple as that

carmag:


..Nigeria needs to be re- colonised from scratch and made away with religion

it's as simple as that

If its going to be recolonized let them also change the error they made in 1914!

carmag:


..Nigeria needs to be re- colonised from scratch and made away with religion

it's as simple as that

Did you also read that India is a very religious country ?

Nigeria's problem is the LEADERS! There is no one to lead Nigeria to that great future.

blacbard:


Did you also read that India is a very religious country ?

In which way is religion helping Nigeria and it's economy, even the people that brought religion to the country had abounded it and embrace science and technology which makes their youths readily employed as soon as they are out from schools

how many youths have your religion given jobs or rather they are exploiting them for their imaginary miracles

it's only those who are benefiting from exploitation of the youths through religion will take your stand

Nigeria shouldn't be compared to India.
India is still a very poor country.
A country where women are raped every second.
A country where honor Killings still abound plentifully.
A country with a poor educational system.
A country with a massive gap between the rich and the poor.
Indians still find solace in travelling to UK and other foreign countries.
India is not a model for us to emulate. There are better ones.

India is way better than us .they have achieved so much in the last century and they hold an important part of world power.
Nigeria has helped foreign countries get out of debt before . Finland as an example but we have only getting worse .

What do you say to that. India is forward and Nigeria is backward

Johnydon22

blacbard:


Did you also read that India is a very religious country ?

they practice there own religion unlike here where they scam you and they told you that paying tithe is better than giving alms

India is a glorified Nigeria. A substitute for hellhole.

persius555:
India is a glorified Nigeria. A substitute for hellhole.

Yet we run there for medical treatment?

carmag:


In which way is religion helping Nigeria and it's economy, even the people that brought religion to the country had abounded it and embrace science and technology which makes their youths readily employed as soon as they are out from schools

how many youths have your religion given jobs or rather they are exploiting them for their imaginary miracles

it's only those who are benefiting from exploitation of the youths through religion will take your stand

You are widely off the mark sir, you say religion should be abolished, yet i showed u a very religious country makimg strides.
Read between the lines sir

Teague4league:

Yet we run there for medical treatment?

Dude, majority of Indians cannot afford that medical treatment you run there for. Hundreds of millions of Indians are malnourished, live in slums, are illiterate, and have no access to electricity. Some of you folks get to India, hang out in Delhi and think the whole India is El Dorado... it is a country with major social and economic issues.

By the way, Indians are poorer than Africans according to research:

http://www.primepost.in/more-poor-in-india-than-africa/

Nigeria is not backward compared to India in any way. If the owner of this thread has not travelled , we have.

Adminisher:
Nigeria is not backward compared to India in any way. If the owner of this thread has not travelled , we have.

God bless you. The average Nigerian believes that any country where the people have a lighter skin colour than Nigerians, is a ''better'' place, more developed etc.

I'm sure many Nigerians, if you ask them to move to Bangladesh or Afghanistan or even Yemen, they will ask you, ''where visa''?

I have debated some people on this forum who actually believed that India was a developed country.

Ignorance is a terrible thing.

Firstly they are worLd power,they are also a nuVlear coUntry,They have launched a space mission,if you talk about malnourishment and other Factors,where is the electricity in Nigeria slUms,do you Have an idea how poor sompple are here,yea you might be rich but many PPLE are sufferinG here too you have no idea,go to places like bere in IB and see slUms dere

Rossikki:


Dude, majority of Indians cannot afford that medical treatment you run there for. Hundreds of millions of Indians are malnourished, live in slums, are illiterate, and have no access to electricity. Some of you folks get to India, hang out in Delhi and think the whole India is El Dorado... it is a country with major social and economic issues.

By the way, Indians are poorer than Africans according to research:

http://www.primepost.in/more-poor-in-india-than-africa/