egopersonified:
We keep on calling out our leaders, as we do so, let us also search ourselves. If the whole of Nigeria migrates to Italy and Italians migrate to Nigeria with the same leaders in place, would things remain the same? As much as our leaders are nothing to write home about, are we the citizens any better in our daily activities. Till we see that an injury to one is an injury to all, till we learn to have compassion and till we begin to see beyond our present into our future, even if Trump is Nigerian president, nothing will change.

Sibrah:
Really. You need deliverance from inferiority complex.

Lucifer66:

Climatic factors?
We have the advantages there, We only suffer from flooding which can be easily PREVENTED.
I can't dream of way this nation can go forward, Without a good leader there's no hope and all the good potential leaders are getting killed.
Believe me when I say Nigeria will break into a civil war soon, Maybe if buhari wins (a huge protest and then into blood shed by angry youths)
If Atiku wins( The north will start killing again but 5x more rapid)
There is no way but to jump off this sinking shiom

DeepSight:


The climatic factors I refer to are historical and not necessarily present. That's a huge subject.

Anyway, jump ship if you want to. Your life, your choice.
The only thing I can assure you of is that if you apply this same sort of losers mentality to your personal life, then you are doomed to fail no matter what ship you jump to.

Good luck.
Ignorant till the last word.

ollah2:


Look In the mirror man, you are the one worshiping a foreign god. The very cradle of inferiority complex

mrphysics:

Tonye, I trust you have been to Abuja. Not saying things are better but from the pictures of the roads I saw here, I don't really see anything special to what is in Abuja.

Too much of living in Lagos can also give bad image to Nigeria too. I have been to Lagos several times and the roads are so bad and poor that the picture that the op posted would look like a heavenly picture to most people.

I just want to be fair and objective, we have same road in Abuja as was posted by Op. I can agree with other things.

franciskaine:
don't waste your time bro, Nigeria can never be great. I once followed this ur line of positivity, but unfortunately it was all ruse. We are a cursed race.

Sibrah:
A God that can saw and conquer your local gods. That's an away match victory and you are here talking trash. keep spiting trash there.

chineji:
Did I talk about Italian women? I have never met such beautiful women in my life. Beautiful and very interesting. I used to think it was impossible for women to be interesting and funny but white women proved me so wrong. My Co workers were always so fun to have conversations with. They knew absolutely everything about everything cause they read a whole lot. In Italy, the women are always smiling all the time ( it's a total different ball game in most African countries where most women are always ugly and angry all the time) and the greetings omg. It's not weird to hug a woman and give her a peck on both cheeks and say bounjourno or bounesera depending on what time of the day it is. La spezia had a lot of beautiful women but then we took a road trip to Milan and it was like a total different ball game. It was just like a real life miss world beauty pageant.

Italian women are the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life. I just pray I can marry a Nigerian because ever since I got back all the girls are just ugly to my eyes

ollah2:



I see but you guys cry like babies when the Islamic god conquers you.

Notatribalist:
your comment is mischievous, but I won't reply u in same manner.. You complained of bad leaders and rightly so,but u have not suggested the way forward,.instead you allowed your hatred for them to metamorphosed into hatred for your country,so u fall into the category of bad leaders if given the chance.good leaders don't come ranting online.yes they make excuses but their answers are bigger the their excuses..so what's ur answer to Nigeria's problems? Oh restructuring, yes I am a great advocate of that..But after restructuring are we going to import leaders to lead the new restructured Nigeria? Answer please.

Mouth Gig:
FOR ME SWISS, NA BANANNA ISLAND... ..DIRTY AFRICAN... ..GOD HATE DIRTY AND DARKNESS...

GBOKASINCHA:
i am just a corper...but 1 day i will do my part..most skyscrapers you see in america are owned by individuals ...the government only make sure basic amenities are available....every other development...i.e parks...stadiums...estates....movie theaters....stores....arenas...are owned and built by individuals.

luxy44:
I got this many years ago...and I relocated my family immediately. I sold all my landed properties to achieve it. People thought I was crazy. I can't raise my kids here...mba!!! I live in naija though. In Copenhagen, you will see a 70year old woman jugging down the road, not a new thing! I was telling one the Toyota gangs on cartalk section that you don't see Toyota in Europe he kept arguing with me, quoting stats from America. Someone that has never left naija o..
Please leave naija if you have the means, white is superior to black!! The former is light and the latter is darkness...

Sibrah:
Which of the Islamic gods?

The one holding Leah sheribu or the one of almajiris
or the one that needs oil money to buy salah rams or
the one that is watching women die of vvf?

Which of the Islamic gods please?

GBOKASINCHA:
i am just a corper...but 1 day i will do my part..most skyscrapers you see in america are owned by individuals ...the government only make sure basic amenities are available....every other development...i.e parks...stadiums...estates....movie theaters....stores....arenas...are owned and built by individuals.

chineji:
I really wish I could show more pictures from my trip but the others had my face in it and I dont wanna show my face. We are really suffering in Africa. I used to be one of those who believe in this continent but I don't anymore. We are living like animals especially here in Nigeria. Nigeria especially is the worse amongst all African countries. Nigeria lacks the basics a country that can't provide electricity nor water for its citizens or even healthcare. In all of Italy, healthcare is free. They live so long. You see so many old people on the street. They get sick they go to the hospital and get treated for free and they got quality healthcare. We got absolutely nothing in Nigeria. I am back to Nigeria now and at the moment I am confused on what I wanna do. Everything here feels so strange and so weird. Everyone in Nigeria is suffering I mean it everyone. You have to really go outside to see how bad it is here.

Anyone that wants to leave Nigeria should do so ASAP. This country and by extension much of sub Sahara Africa will never get better. I mean even Gabon that has so much oil and very few citizens has so much poverty and really shit infrastructure same with equitoreal guinea.

The most painful aspect is that most African leaders travel to this countries regularly and see how things are done here and see how people live like human beings but cannot replicate same in their home nations.

Anyone that has an opportunity to leave Nigeria should waste no time. We are suffering in Nigeria. Life is not all about money quality of life matters too and quality of life in Nigeria is shit real shit.

GambaOsaka:
God knows i have been cursing our leaders since i came here a week ago......
Everything is organized...
People smile at you at the mall.
People follow the rules.
People are ready to answer your questions and render help.
Internet is cheap.
Power supply - no even talk am


Abeg...... the only hope for naija are the youths, but look around, all you see is young people shouting Buhari and Atiku up and down.....
Fighting and cursing on the internet in support of these old men that brought us where we are...... That is the reason why personally i have given up on naija..... God bless Nigeria sha

TonyeBarcanista:
Nigeria shall be great again

DeepSight:


Your post sort of insinuated that.

And no, I am not trying to provoke you.

The views expressed by the OP are frankly that of a little boy who probably has little experience of life. First time out of the country and he is blown away. As someone has indicated he obviously has a great deal to learn.

He is also extremely ignorant of the development of nations and people's - and so are you.

It is true that we are in a tough place in Africa right now and especially so in Nigeria. It is however not true that this can never change. It is also not true that black people are mostly stupid as the OP said.

The truth is that the views expressed by the OP and others who think like him are shamefully lazy. The first thing that should occur to them when they admire the western world is that it took humans just like you and I blood and sweat for many centuries to achieve that. If you imagine that a mindset which craves it without sacrifice will ever be worthy of anything then you don't know anything about the school of life.

Both you and the OP may be disillusioned and that is understandable. But becoming self hating hopeless cowards is indefensible.

chinejii:
Italy.

I really used to be one of those who used to feel that someday Africa would get it right. That things are not as bad as we imagine it to be, that somehow black people are actually not stupid as other races think but being in Italy totally changed my mind. I have been living in darkness all my life and in Italy I saw light. First of all, once the ship crossed into Italian waters, I noticed the ocean water to be very blue (in most African countries it's usually very brown and dirty when you are close to port). You could literally see your face inside. We docked in a small town called la spezia. La spezia is a village by European standards and the scenery totally blew my mind away. As soon as I left the ship to see town. I just couldn't stop cursing all the leaders in Africa past and present and the idiot citizens who support their ineptitude. I was in an European village and there was freaking WiFi everywhere. The roads omg. I have been to more than 10 African countries in my short life span and I have never seen roads of this standard before. Public transportation. We got no public transportation in Africa. Our buses and trains are all shit. The public buses in Italy were


The roads just blew me away over and over again. The way the roads were built with considerations for pedestrians and cyclist. It was just strange to me that people could actually live like this, people could actually live sane.

I love automobiles, when I am not reading or working in them. I watch YouTube videos and drool on my favourite models I cant afford but here my favourite models were being used as taxis. Cars that would be used by Rich elite Nigerians being used as taxis and the kind of cars Italians drive gosh. I saw so many recent BMWs, Mercedes, audis and volkswagens. Cars I didn't even think we're out on the road. It was so unreal to me. Meanwhile in Nigeria, someone would do a thanksgiving ceremony for being able to buy a piece of crap camry or corolla.

GavelSlam:
When I read writeups like this here, I can't help but laugh.

You travelled across Europe and began to curse your land.

Yet you are hesitant to look into why things work over there.

The difference is logic and its application.

In Italy, creativity/manufacturing/production is a family tradition and heirloom.

Check it. It's either the family is known for wine making, Pasta production, engines, leather works, ceramic works etc.

In Nigeria, you get a degree in chemistry but would never synthesize anything after graduation.

You would rather work in a bank, join the Yahoo club or even remain without work.

The excuse is the worn-out excuse of lack of government support.

These days you get 30k through Npower. Fvcking save and buy bunsen burners. You and your classmates can decide to form a co-operative or club and purchase 2nd hand centrifuges. If you are sharp, you can get donors from around the world to support your cause.

Enough of the excuses.

Get to work.

DeepSight:


Get involved.

Adiwana:


What the hell are you talking about??Your argument has been on sentiment and perception not on facts.Tell me one developed black nation in the whole world..Just one.And please dont tell me South Africa cause we know the reason they are where they are today is because of white people that built that place and still running that place.Remove it and watch that country collapse.African Americans are just 13% of American population but commit over 51% of the crime in the country.Look at Nigeria as an example,we cannot even generate 7000mw in 2018.Cannot pay 30k/month and unemployment level is so damn high.50yrs+ being independent plus the whole resources we have and one of the most hardworking people in the face of the world we can get our shiit together.And you say what?? Stop being ridiculous and stop with the inferiority complex bullshit.Thats why we continue to deceive ourselves using prayers and "it go better" rubbish to keep ourselves down always blaming 1 thing or the other.The earlier you realise this shithole called Nigeria and black race is a backward race,the better

vingeophysicist:
Our main problem in this country is illiteracy, ethnicity, religion, and poverty.
Our leaders are more united than we the masses. The reason is the easy access they have to our national treasury. We the educated masses if we preach equal dividend and quality leadership our leader raise the issue of ethnic and religious differences to divide us. You hear them saying things like Quota system is not applied in apportioning vital position to individuals. But they raise those alarm because of greed base on the fact that their cabals are misrepresented. Ethnic and religious bigot among us(masses) are deceived and they end up dividing us. Leaders like Tinubi and Orji that are known looters if financial agencies go after them you still see people defending them because of same ethnic affiliation. Haven't you heard of Buhari defending Abacha?why? He wants to sound like an ethnic partisan that defends his kinsmen. This is why I need a restructured Nigeria to alleviate the ethnic and religious problem

DeepSight:


Well you've said it yourself: 50+ years only right?
May I ask you if you can tell me: how old is Great Britain?

Let's start from there.

Oh by the way calm down and stopen the epileptic fit. You are speaking from pure ignorance but I will help you. OK?

egopersonified:
We keep on calling out our leaders, as we do so, let us also search ourselves. If the whole of Nigeria migrates to Italy and Italians migrate to Nigeria with the same leaders in place, would things remain the same? As much as our leaders are nothing to write home about, are we the citizens any better in our daily activities. Till we see that an injury to one is an injury to all, till we learn to have compassion and till we begin to see beyond our present into our future, even if Trump is Nigerian president, nothing will change.

musicwriter:


Bro, we're still in slavery in Africa, and our current situation is because many years of slavery and colonialism has got the intellect locked down. How can we begin to talk about development; when we still have to learn from the white man how to do it?

And yes, we can do better than while people, but until we free ourselves from our predicament of today, which unfortunately we don't even realise; including you. You can't be better than someone who gave you language, education, God. You can't be better than someone when you believe in advance that his language, education, God, is better than yours.

We are still in slavery but it's a different type of slavery. Please read this book https://www.nairaland.com/4595660/intellectual-slavery-worst-legacy-colonialism