What you miss out here is some of the bulk 50 naira collected is going to IGP through several route. That is part of the money the IGP used to procure 2 suvs for Aisha Buhari and the issue has been swept under the carpet.
I once argue with some people that politicians determine the destine of a any country.
In Africa, constitution is for the poor and with this, development is totally buried.
Imagine a tout becoming LGA caretaker chairman for 2 to 4 years, and within that period, he amass wealth than a lawyer, professor, doctor, civil servant of close to 40 years in service. Pathetic!
In house of representatives and senate, some of them has dual citizenship including the speaker Gbajabiamila which is against the constitution, is that not a criminal offence?

Odogu9195:
You missed out the part where jealousy and wickedness won’t allow us. Nigeria is a country where everyone is working really hard to make sure nothing works for anyone but themselves. Not just Nigeria, but Africa as a whole. A black man lacks the will to rule! It’s facts. One time a police man seized a bike mans bike due to 50 naira. Bike man was literally crying and begging he doesn’t have money, Oga even removed and emptied his cloths yet police man refused, and for what 50 naira?? It’s that the fault of the government as we all tend to blame the government for everything! NO THIS IS A TYPICAL BLACK MAN WITHOUT ANY FORM OF AUTHORITY ASIDE FROM CARRYING A GUN AND BEEN PART OF A FAILED SYSTEM CALLED THE NIGERIAN POLICE FOR, being really WICKED and unreasonable to his fellow Nigerian. Please TELL ME, how can we grow as a country with looking out for each other??

Odogu9195:
You missed out the part where jealousy and wickedness won’t allow us. Nigeria is a country where everyone is working really hard to make sure nothing works for anyone but themselves. Not just Nigeria, but Africa as a whole. A black man lacks the will to rule! It’s facts. One time a police man seized a bike mans bike due to 50 naira. Bike man was literally crying and begging he doesn’t have money, Oga even removed and emptied his cloths yet police man refused, and for what 50 naira?? It’s that the fault of the government as we all tend to blame the government for everything! NO THIS IS A TYPICAL BLACK MAN WITHOUT ANY FORM OF AUTHORITY ASIDE FROM CARRYING A GUN AND BEEN PART OF A FAILED SYSTEM CALLED THE NIGERIAN POLICE FOR, being really WICKED and unreasonable to his fellow Nigerian. Please TELL ME, how can we grow as a country with looking out for each other??

Is the work of the government to educate his citizen on how to approach a case like this the police man is wasting somebody time take him to court ooooo less I forget the Nigeria court is were the rice wins all cases

GidiWoodsMan:


Hong Kong was developed by the British government. Even then only a handful of people own 90℅ of the wealth, the average HK native lives from hand to mouth.

Be that as it may, the basic foundation for a prosperous society is a good government. Every other thing follows from there. Take a look at America & Britain, then ask yourself why citizens of the defunct communist-bloc in central Europe took advantage of EU policies to migrate to the UK in droves.

europe as a whole do not have one single natural resources to sustain there system for a long period they have faired enough for hundreds of years but still functioning, Uk thrives on colonialism, imagine if every country in Europe’s has 20% of the resources that’s Nigeria has today, Russia became defunct because they had fought 2 world wars coupled with sanctions so its normal for an average EU citizen to move to Germany, Holland and Uk

hustlelegit:


Op you can't be tired of listening to "bad government" we are Nigerian and we both know the situation of this country. If Nigerians are truly smart we won't have an issue with bad government, if we were truly smart we can easily choose the right leaders but the honest truth is our smartness is diverted into stupid things and behaviors .... I do ask my self If the government are truly responsible for the misdeeds and the bad situation in Nigeria but the truth is they are not responsible....we are responsible for voting them in and since they used us as stepping stone they experience wealth, Security, happiness while we are the ones suffering. If we were smart we would have elected the right leader and would have done the right thing.
Can you call those wasting their time voting for BBN smart? Or the organizers and the government?.

Sowore was smart enough to hold a revolutionary protest, but his followers were also smart to leave him behind when DSS arrested him, so who his smart?

Op Nigerians are not smart we are all hypocrites and we will never move forward if we continue with these.

not just hypocrites, COWARDS!!!, not that I support Sowore (due to his demands which are also seemingly borderline on sentiments and not tangible enough to revolt, my personal opinion though) we love life so much that it's better to live as a slave than die trying to fight for our freedom, it's so bad that even when someone dies or is punished for trying to fight for our freedom, we join the slave masters to despise him, worse if he dies, we spit on his grave and drag his children through the mud, we are the architects of our miseries and the masters of our captivity... we are all dullards so we vote in fellow dullards...

ednut1:
china was a wasteland that a small japan was bullying and beating in wars. Mao zedond and co later made it what it is. Dubai was a fishing outpost ask mansour family how far. The former libya by ghadaffi too. There is no light in nigeria is it you and i that will build dams or nuclear plants Is it you and i that will provide world class universities or roads Wake up

Mao did exactly what Buhari is doing and more. As a result, he sent his country into crazy famine. Parents ate their kids, people ate grass and at the end, over 30 Million people died.

izzou:




Who are you?

Your favourite babe...

thebosstrevor:
Nigerians always say they are one of the smartest people in the world, they boast and beat their chest that they are so intelligent and smart and nobody can beat a Nigerian, but then again with all these bragging, Nigeria is not developed and cant boast of a middle class

My question to you Nigerian Folks, if Nigerians are one of the smartest in the world, why isnt Nigeria developed? pls do not mention bad government, i am tired of hearing that.

Oga the average IQ in Nigeria is 65 and that's where all the rot stem from ..Just a few Nigerians are smart like 90%are very dumb

thebosstrevor:


i still dont get it is the government the reason why Nigeria cant not develop?

Logic will be, if Nigerians are smart then they will have smart people in power to lead them

N.B: i dont believe that government interference is the solution to all problems

You have a lot to learn.... No developed nation in the world happened solely because the citizens are smart... Take a look at the developed nations and the kind of leaders they have, and those like Nigeria and their leaders... We can't deny the facts!!!

adonainana:
Every human being on this planet is smart, the reason why you wont hear any european say they are smart is because they dont need to brag about being smart because the previous european generations had done the had job for them, in creating industries, generational employment, even so much more that they came to africa and stole african resources and took it to develop thier own country.

Even think about the modern north koreans now who have nothing to do anymore than develop nuclear weapons, like people dont understand how far the rest of the world has moved on. So whenever any Nigerian opens his mouth and says he is smart, he is just being narrow minded and mischievious. He or she doesnt know anything.

He only needs to travel to other countries and see how far some humans have gone, then he will know he is very dumb and knows nothing

Yeah I agree with you!


Even the countries where things are happening don't brag about being smart, it's a country that depends on them for almost everything that consider themselves as smart people

#Inside life#

They should just sell off this country and share the proceed to all, so evryone can goan buy citizenship in any country of their choice

Chukwurah003:


But China was meant to be developed?

the leaders woke up. Can buhari, lawan tinubu and co wake up??

KingAzubuike:

Nigerians aren't smart bro... I used to think so until I travelled wide. Our own definition of smartness here is being cunny and dubious and a cheat. Travel out there and your orientation will change.. those guys are intelligent.. and if you're talking of being cunny and dubious go to India, Pakistan or southeast asia, you go learn work.

alexxo11

Yeah I know Pakistan and Indians to be very cunning. I know about that very well

thebosstrevor:
Nigerians always say they are one of the smartest people in the world, they boast and beat their chest that they are so intelligent and smart and nobody can beat a Nigerian, but then again with all these bragging, Nigeria is not developed and cant boast of a middle class

My question to you Nigerian Folks, if Nigerians are one of the smartest in the world, why isnt Nigeria developed? pls do not mention bad government, i am tired of hearing that.

You have answered your question: Bad Govt. With a bad and corrupt Govt, there can never be good governance! And, if there's no good governance, development will be stifled!

Blackvic1:
our leaders know nothing about been smart, what do you think the definition of smartness is ?

Please go straight to your point. What is smartness according to you, and how do Nigerian leaders not have it?

Nigerians are not smart

The Black race is under a curse for now

ednut1:
china was a wasteland that a small japan was bullying and beating in wars. Mao zedond and co later made it what it is. Dubai was a fishing outpost ask mansour family how far. The former libya by ghadaffi too. There is no light in nigeria is it you and i that will build dams or nuclear plants Is it you and i that will provide world class universities or roads Wake up

Mao Zedong was a disaster, at least economically.

His Great leap Forward led to the death of hundreds of millions of people.

China was also an extremely poor country during his reign.

xerxes456:
not just hypocrites, COWARDS!!!, not that I support Sowore (due to his demands which are also seemingly borderline on sentiments and not tangible enough to revolt, my personal opinion though) we love life so much that it's better to live as a slave than die trying to fight for our freedom, it's so bad that even when someone dies or is punished for trying to fight for our freedom, we join the slave masters to despise him, worse if he dies, we spit on his grave and drag his children through the mud, we are the architects of our miseries and the masters of our captivity... we are all dullards so we vote in fellow dullards...

Oga Nigerian's aren't COWARDS. The last "heroes" we had are called BIAFRA and you know what happened to them right? Massive rape, famine, hunger, malnutrition, slaughter of whole villages, maiming and at the end what happened? NOTHING!

Oh, lest I forget, to pour salt on their injury, the government collected all the money they had in the bank and gave each bank account owner 20 pounds irrespective of how much they had in their account before the war. This is why till early 2000s, Igbo people didn't use bank accounts but rather hid their money under the rug, bed, in the ground - till armed robbers started doing withdrawals.

AntiWailer:
Which Nigeria is not developed ?

Tell me about the banking system in Europe and use of technology and compare to ours.

What is wrong with Europe banking system. is there any Africa banking system that beat off Sweden, Luxemburg or Canada?

thebosstrevor:
Nigerians always say they are one of the smartest people in the world, they boast and beat their chest that they are so intelligent and smart and nobody can beat a Nigerian, but then again with all these bragging, Nigeria is not developed and cant boast of a middle class

My question to you Nigerian Folks, if Nigerians are one of the smartest in the world, why isnt Nigeria developed? pls do not mention bad government, i am tired of hearing that.

Really?

I think your question should be why do Nigerians do well outside of Nigeria?
Niggur take a seat. Nigeria does not encourage talent. No development whatsoever.

Then you head up to an interview where they require candidates to have 10years experience. Are you kidding me?

How the Bleep do you want candidates to have 10 years experience, when no one will give them a chance.

Next time you have a ridiculous question such as the above, do some research first. Talk to your friends or some shit.

Angelfrost:


You have a lot to learn.... No developed nation in the world happened solely because the citizens are smart... Take a look at the developed nations and the kind of leaders they have, and those like Nigeria and their leaders... We can't deny the facts!!!

oga smartness plays a huge role in development tell me one developed country that has mediocre citizens? The political leaders are the product of the society a fool cannot lead smart people but but a fool can lead a fool and a smart person can lead a fool and the later is what is happening in Nigeria

AntiWailer:


what concerns banking system and sophistication with operating system on ATM ?

Na wa ooo.

it is stressful having a meaningful conversation with the number of ignorant people on this platform.

@ Bolden ...my thoughts exactly

Corruption , greed , wickedness and selfish interest will keep this country stagnant . How can one person steal 60 billion naira?

FarahAideed:


Oga the average IQ in Nigeria is 65 and that's where all the rot stem from ..Just a few Nigerians are smart like 90%are very dumb

Citation please. Where you conjur this IQ figure from?

ednut1:
you clearly are not smart. This is my last comment here. I work in the oil and gas sector let me school you small.
1- exon, shell chevron help us drill crude/gas and also steal from it. Their refineries also convert it with crude along with indian refineries ( our refineries were from the french and are dead now). There is no oil in netherland but shell from the same country brings in billions from overseas

2- as we no get light we have to use generators from perkins(UK) and some asians ones- if we had light is there any market for those guys

3- cocoa from west africa is converted into billions of chocolate in the west and asia( if we had chocolate companies here would it benefit west?)

4. All the other things we import nko Does it not benefit them

Be smart bro. U say our leaders shud be smart. So our reps and senators shud make laws that will favour all of us So their 33m salary becomes 2m and the 5.5 billion car doesn't see the light of day. U dull sha

am a Ghanaian and I 100%endorse your statement. The world is like a food chain. The Stronger ones feed on the weaker ones.Currently since the West controls all these economies and power which they strategically planned for centuries since 1470s when they landed and invaded the continent, institutionalized and mentally and physically enslaving the people, they continue to dominate. Any single nation that decided to rebel is bombarded with propaganda, enormous trade sanctions, turning it's own people against it's leaders,etc.They literally kill or finance a coup to overthrow stubborn leaders.They divide the continent into 54 weaker and perceived independence and sovereign nations and later played along to grant these created nations false independence. They still feed on our resources to feed their factories and refineries in their snow riddled nations.They currently see China as a major threat and competitor so they feed these smaller neighbouring Chinese states and call them The Asian Tigers.Far East nations namely Singapore, Taiwan,Hong Kong,South Korea,Malaysia and use them as developed puppets and allies and fill these nations with their military bases to frustrate China their long lost puppet who now rivals them.Saudi Arabia is also the leader of the Islamic world and richer oil state and with great influence in the arab world with UAE,Kuwait, and others acting as their partners to regulate oil prices so their military threat, "The Sovient" now Russia and Iran (leader of the Islamic shites are controlled and tamed.Africa unfortunately can not be empowered since we are their natural resources sources to keep financing their fake lives.The West were savages and barbarians during the Roman Empire era buh now they are seen as demi gods with their language, way of living,spreading across the globe.

Chukwurah003:


But China was meant to be developed?

Dnt be deluded..every Country has the right to development

Ednut1 don go find person trouble. But the yabbings weren't necessary sha.

Regarding your postulation that the current state of Nigeria benefits the west, I don't believe that's true because they will benefit more if Nigeria is prosperous (distance is shorter than the Asians, the west current beneficiaries). Just like Japan benefits from China's prosperity.

The truth is that ordinarily blacks are not up there when it comes to intellect. A lot of indicies point to that fact such as poverty, life expectancy, etc but my big one that ultimately proves blacks are not intellectually competitive, is venture, exploration and exploitation. We are at the absolute bottom of the tree and it is no surprise we were taken in slavery in mass numbers (till today), but taking no one, we were colonised in mass, colonising no one, till date we have been exploited by all (even by nations on the same standing just a few decades ago), exploiting none in return.

This can only be about a race that is not as mentally competent, a race that is incapable of organising itself into viable groupings, effective societies, with a common, positive purpose. Some say this has biblical origins but when you consider that amongst black nations, the more you have socities bearing dissimilar tongues, the more discordant, inhibited and ultimately dispondent such societies are such as Nigeria then there may be a point there.

Thus in a nutshell Nigeria is the poster child of what is wrong with the black race because we have the largest concentration of black 'models' in the world, the largest concentration of 'not so brilliant folks' on earth. Nigeria is more complex than the whole African continent and more. Can Africa ever come together as one....Nigeria is more complex than that.

The result speaks for itself.

thebosstrevor:
Nigerians always say they are one of the smartest people in the world, they boast and beat their chest that they are so intelligent and smart and nobody can beat a Nigerian, but then again with all these bragging, Nigeria is not developed and cant boast of a middle class

My question to you Nigerian Folks, if Nigerians are one of the smartest in the world, why isnt Nigeria developed? pls do not mention bad government, i am tired of hearing that.

Most of what we tend to be smartness in this part of the world if you sit and analysis it very well it pure greed, corruption and stealing

thebosstrevor:
Nigerians always say they are one of the smartest people in the world, they boast and beat their chest that they are so intelligent and smart and nobody can beat a Nigerian, but then again with all these bragging, Nigeria is not developed and cant boast of a middle class

My question to you Nigerian Folks, if Nigerians are one of the smartest in the world, why isnt Nigeria developed? pls do not mention bad government, i am tired of hearing that.

Smartness doesn't buid a nation but righteousness.

Do the right thing and you ll attract smart people

Blackvic1:
europe as a whole do not have one single natural resources to sustain there system for a long period they have faired enough for hundreds of years but still functioning, Uk thrives on colonialism, imagine if every country in Europe’s has 20% of the resources that’s Nigeria has today, Russia became defunct because they had fought 2 world wars coupled with sanctions so its normal for an average EU citizen to move to Germany, Holland and Uk

Didn't Britain also fight two world wars? Russia's system of government was (and remains) their number one handicap. Same with all their former satellite states on the continent.

lawani:
Nigeria needs to be divided, it is not a nation. There is too much bitter completion between Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo etc. Then if the UN sponsors a treaty to restrict government to mainly income tax, everywhere will develop. Revenue or money is only as good as where it is gotten from.

i wish so, Delta state is the highest producer of oil In Nigeria, Delta state always have the highest federal allocation annually, my brother go to Delta State and tell me if you see one sensible infrastructure... it's not by resource control it's by changing our mentality, until the people fight the right fight, until youth channel their energy in the right direction, until we start asking the right questions and start demanding the right answers, until we stop being dull(smart), nothing not even United World can help us. Even if we divide this nonsense will not stop... it's the mindset bro. The mindset...

Blackvic1:
oga smartness plays a huge role in development tell me one developed country that has mediocre citizens? The political leaders are the product of the society a fool cannot lead smart people but but a fool can lead a fool and a smart person can lead a fool and the later is what is happening in Nigeria

USA is an example. Lots of dumb people there. However, USA is pretty old. So, they've had time to develop. Their citizens also have more guns than our navy, army and police put together. So, the government cannot act any how.

Everything is about checks and balance. Without counter force, even saint Michael will do any how. USA has been bullying iran, iraq for decades because those guys can't do nothing. But when it comes to China and Russia, they'll dialogue because if they do anyhow dem go see anyhow.

But no be so for 9ja. Any vagabond in power can wake up and declare absolutely anything without consequence.
See example: Ex Vagabond in power sold a 150m vehicle to himself for less than 8million. https://www.nairaland.com/5454327/mohammed-abubakar-sold-n150m-armoured

And until that is fixed, 9ja will remain on this stormy path