The United Nations recently released a report pointing to the divided nature of the Nigerian society while also commenting on the alarmingly low social and developmental indices recorded. Anyone unfamiliar with the way things are done in Nigeria, where incompetence, or failure, are either brushed away or rewarded, might be wondering why the same people who were not able to help us meet the UN prescribed targets for development under other administrations, find themselves, yet again, in similar roles.
It is this repetition of the same, old, familiar faces which has accounted for our lack of real progress over the years. Parties recycle aides and candidates, enabling ‘group-think’, archaic ways and policies, rather than new ideas from fresh minds. Beyond pushing paper, wearing agbadas, looking important or ceremonial, state and federal appointees in Nigeria have failed to deliver: this is the unspoken, undiplomatic truth behind the UN report. Every issue recorded in this country periodically repeats itself, bolstering a feeling of hopelessness which the current economic recession fuels.
The report features these words which read almost like a warning: “Nigeria’s population will be approximately 200 million by 2019 and over 400 million by 2050, becoming one of the top five most populous countries in the world”. What will we do with all these people? How are we preparing for them? Is our educational system ready? Are our health services ready? Or have we accepted, that even before they are born, most will grow up poor and disenfranchised, becoming unproductive burdens rather than potential assets?
The report couldn’t have said a lot more than what is already known across diplomatic and charitable circles, within our government and amongst some of our own people. In a nation where everything is imported, where we never capitalise on opportunities for real growth, our current economic situation is hardly surprising: when the United Arab Emirates used oil rents to build infrastructure and social services which provided the foundation they continue to build on today, we held parties, sprayed money and flew wives and girlfriends to London.
We delight in buying “aso ebi” which enriches the economies of Austria and Switzerland, etc(we don’t even produce the fabrics we wear yet we call these fabrics, prints or styles African!); spending billions each year on items whose profits pay the mortgages and school fees of foreign nationals—I won’t bore you with more examples of our collective small mindedness.
Or perhaps we should discuss just one more example: Our rich and famous finance their lifestyles through bank debts, running from one bank to the other to get loans to buy houses, buy private jets rather than start businesses to employ Nigerians and grow our economy. They are rich on paper alone. Eventually, when the Ponzi scheme collapses like the house of cards it was, the debt is written off, they are free to further offend by giving business tips on the pages of magazines, or to run for governor, clearly or dare I say, curiously, because in Nigeria, mismanaging a personal fortune is a pre-requisite to gaining notoriety and of course, to public office.
I’m surprised no one has trademarked or gone into manufacturing using the phrase “only in Nigeria”—it could be our own catch phrase appearing on T-shirts, mugs, etc. like the British: “keep calm”. At the same time, we should be fed up of making fun of our country’s sad penchant for disorganisation, wastefulness and lack of planning.
So, we’re in a recession, what next? It would be great if every ministry could share its strategic plans. I don’t mean in a lecture attended only by political insiders, sycophants and their public mouthpieces. Rather, on websites and in the media (both new and traditional). We need to know where we are going: not to criticise government plans but simply because it is our right to know and a plan is more easily implemented when people buy into it; and anyway, the only reason one would have to worry about a plan is if it isn’t a priority, or a good one. Indeed, some Nigerians are professional critics. AGIP—Any Government In Power—has a wing of critics which belongs to everyone and to no one, hates all Nigerians and secretly wishes they’d checked out before the British government stopped handing out passports or work visas to immigrants.
What is our plan for Nigerian technology? Information Technology, IT, is a global force which employs millions of young people. Nigeria is yet to harness its inherent possibilities. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the President’s meeting with Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Our professional celebrities, who love nothing more than photo-ops, contribute little else and seem almost paidto sell to Nigerians the same fake lifestyle which contributes to us accepting deception and delusion, must have confused Mr Zuckerberg, whose simplicity stunned Nigerians, so used to “big men” demeaning them, giving them a complex and encouraging them by their example, to seek wealth through illegal ways.
Zuckerberg started out as an ordinary young man—he had shoes but those were not his true wealth—ideas were his main currency. A young man with ideas in Nigeria is as good as dead in a country where policymakers themselves, despite decades of speeches claiming the contrary, care very little for young people or any ideas that don’t involve their own fortunes.
Speaking of our members of state and federal assemblies who should be creating the laws which facilitate everything from business to our most basic comfort—reports about their huge salaries and entitlements have once again surfaced. If every one of them relinquished just 10% of their state sponsored income, Nigeria might afford to recruit graduates into the police system, making them detectives or agents entrusted with special, more sophisticated duties than the very many unqualified individuals wielding guns.
Gradually, the later could be weeded out of the system. We can’t afford to keep employing mediocre people, be it in public office or any related government service. What’ll happen to those who’ll be rendered irrelevant by the changing times is the crux of our inability to reform. Politicians are afraid of “new blood” because of its game-changing potential. If from a rent-seeking society we progress to a productive society, virtually half of our business and political elite would disappear. But “every dog has its day”: it is the very nature of the universe to have a season for everything; so Nigeria’s Zuckerbergs, etc. will undoubtedly rise no matter what is done to stop them.
에그슬롯
하지만 그것은… 새로운 오스만 특사가 취임한다는 소식을 듣고 많은 사람들이 찾아왔기 때문입니다.
5 라이온스 메가웨이즈
세 명의 베테랑을 바라보며 자신을 부끄럽게 바라보았다.
라이즈 오브 올림푸스
무슨 일이 생기면 분명히 추한 죽음이 될 것입니다.
마종 웨이즈
Xiao Xiangxiang은 즉시 이해하고 그녀의 예쁜 얼굴이 약간 붉어졌습니다. “주인님 …”
가네샤 골드
그러나 슐레이만 황제를 수시로 둘러싼 유학자들의 태도는 달랐다.
판다스 포춘
그러나 Tiger는 Tiger가 예상한 것이 가능하다고 믿습니다.
프라그마틱 슬롯 무료
이때 크게 웃는 것은 실로 죽음을 구하는 행위이다.
슬롯 모아 무료
“폐하, 왕세자는 서산에 있는데 최근에 증기 기관을 만지작거리지 않았습니다.”
메가 슬롯
“남자들 …”Ouyang Zhi는 떨면서 절하고 Fang Jifan에게 크게 절했습니다.
카지노 슬롯 머신
한 무리의 사람들이 황실 감옥에서 곧바로 풀려났지만 그들의 표정은 비참했다.
에그 카지노
Hongzhi 황제는 Zhu Houzhao와 Fang Jifan을 흘끗 보았습니다.
꽁 머니 슬롯
틀에 박힌 시험도 못 이기면 무슨 자격으로 반박해야 하겠습니까.
에그벳
“긴급보고, 딩싱현에서 긴급보고!” 내시가 소리쳤다.
톰 오브 매드니스
“예, 예, 어쩔 수 없습니다. 전하 탓이 아닙니다.”
문 프린세스
폐하는 여전히 ‘심각한 병’에 걸렸고, Zhu Xiurong은 매우 걱정하고 있습니다.
메가 슬롯 사이트
Fang Jifan은 내시를 바라보며 눈살을 찌푸리며 “무슨 일이야? “라고 물었다.
돌리고 슬롯
셀 수 없이 많은 비옥한 땅이 다밍의 총칼 아래 놓였습니다.
슬롯 머신 사이트
하지만 일단 지면 남들에게 비웃음거리가 되고 아낌없이 비웃음거리가 될 것이다.
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에그벳 주소
실제로 평론가의 논란은 대중들 사이에서도 큰 논란을 불러일으켰다.
하이브 슬롯
Zhu Houzhao와 Fang Jifan은 충격을 받고 서로를 바라 보았습니다.
에그슬롯
잠시 생각한 후 Fang Jifan은 어쩔 수없이 한숨을 쉬며 “시아버지가 앞장서달라고 부탁합니다. “라고 말했습니다.
슈가 러쉬
그리고 Wang Shouren은 Fang Jifan의 제자이며 누구보다 스승의 안전을 염려합니다.
아시아 슬롯
Fang Jifan이 들어갔을 때 그는 거의 비틀 거렸다.
EGGC
돈을 잃은 복권 플레이어들은 모두 눈이 빨개지고 매우 흥분했습니다.
배트맨 와이즈 토토
“알아, 알아.” Fang Jifan은 조급하게 손을 흔들었다.
메이저 사설 토토
Zhang Heling은 안도의 한숨을 쉬었습니다. “술을 마시지 않는 것이 옳습니다. 차를 너무 많이 마시면 신장이 손상됩니다.”Zhang Heling은 갑자기 무거운 망치가 심장을 세게 때리는 것을 느꼈습니다.
마블 슬롯
말하자면 Qi Guogong은 그에게 설명 할 수없는 애정을 가지고있는 것 같습니다.솔직히 청화 왕조는 이들 도교에 의해 타락했습니다.
카이센 윈즈
한편에서는 칙령을 기다리고 있던 과학원 원사 몇 명과 한린이 일제히 미소를 지었다.
온라인 슬롯
그는 몇 걸음 물러서서 Ouyang Zhi를 가리켰다: “너…너…”
프라그마틱 무료
Fang Jifan은 “폐하에게 돌아가십시오. 제 아들은 7 ~ 8 점 회복되었습니다. “라고 말했습니다.
프라그마틱 무료
“…” 탕인의 얼굴은 돼지 간처럼 창백했고 잠시 말문이 막혔다.
무료 슬롯 머신
Jiang Bin은 극도로 짜증이 나서 화를 내며 “어서 오세요”라고 말했습니다.
슬롯 보증
오스만에게 은 800~900만 냥은 천문학적인 숫자였다.
sm 슬롯
그는 악취 나는 두루마리 수프를 먹으면 조만간 먹혀 죽을 것 같았습니다.
프라그마틱 무료
갑자기 Hongzhi 황제의 얼굴이 아래로 당겨졌습니다.
슬롯 무료 게임
이 경우 말한 내용의 신뢰성이 매우 높습니다.