CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA AS WE MARK ANOTHER YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE

in #nigeria7 years ago

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Over the years, the difficulty of poverty alleviation has been a recurring undertaking inside the nation. As one of the maximum populous Black country in the world with a populace estimate of over one hundred and fifty million people, the difficulty has been at the front burner. By way of all reckoning, Nigeria have to be among the first ten advanced countries of the world due to the fact she is blessed with ample herbal resources. Nigeria has greater in phrases of herbal resources whilst in comparison with different growing countries including Malaysia, Korea, or the South American countries. Apart from natural assets, the kingdom also has plentiful manpower .Nigeria even substances different African international locations manpower inside the fields of schooling, law, medication, engineering and accountancy. Despite these kind of, the scourge of poverty has been extensive in all communities throughout the country.
With all its human and fabric assets, how well are Nigerians faring? The basic human needs which ought to be to be had to every Nigerian citizen to cause them to secure are in most instances unavailable. The poverty is specifically exemplified within the area of water deliver with facts indicating that much less than 40% of Nigerians have get entry to to pipe borne water. which means extra than 60% draw their water from rivers, streams, ponds and taps positioned occasionally many kilometers from their residence. Inside the region of food Availability, much less than half of the population can't manage to pay for three square meals a day.
The prevailing state of affairs wherein we have government officials and nicely to do Nigerians going abroad for treatment for simple sickness that must more often than not be attended to regionally is a unhappy testimony of our fitness device. Many Nigerians are baffled at why we nonetheless can't equip at most of our expert hospitals to provide medical offerings to Nigerians. in the vicinity of safe haven, many Nigerians are nevertheless residing in sub wellknown accommodation. most of our villages have no longer been progressed given that independence in 1960. Greater than 50% of the human beings live under trying occasions in spite of the state’s oil wealth. Within the element of infrastructure, the various country’s roads have turn out to be loss of life traps, due to the fact they were poorly built within the first place and additionally poorly maintained. There may be therefore the need to take more critically the search to industrialize the state. To try this, the instructional machine needs to be restructured in any respect stages. Once that is completed, the country can move to the level of industrialization. There is no gain saying that the country for the time being procures all styles of system from different countries. assorted manufacturers of vehicles, machines, units, aeroplanes and so forth. With very little consideration for standardization of equipment which would have promoted local repair and production. Therefore Nigeria nowadays remains a dumping floor of all sorts of obsolete and 2nd hand goods and machines. indeed below improvement isn't most effective a physical country, but additionally a country of mind. With a determination from all stakeholders and a dedication to alternate , there's sure to be food safety, complete employment, right shipping and ok safe haven for the citizenry. It's also vital for us to have a look at closely how developed countries converted their economics and their humans. We're very acquainted with the fulfillment strategies of Japan, Korea, India and China. These countries did not wait for any man or woman or countries to transfer technology to them, they know that no countries in this competitive world might dedicate that monetary foolishness, as a substitute they adopted, copied, fabricated, offered and simulated technology to match their tradition, environment and desires. For us in Nigeria to preserve wish for the day angel Gabriel or someone else will convey technology to us is to stay in a fools paradise. As the prevailing administration is poised on revamping the economic system, to make existence higher for her citizenry, it ought to paintings assiduously to make a difference from the beyond management of witch searching, intimidation, and harassment of political fighters. once those elements are properly harnessed, our developmental efforts will begin to yield favorable results.

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In my opinion, our major problem is complacency. We are too patient, too happy. The talk about restructuring has been a recurrence in the media recently. While I don't know the inner machinations of government, I suspect that restructuring from our present system of power and resources being concentrated at the centre (which they are now calling 'feeding bottle' democracy) to a decentralised system where each state is a power hub with its own set of responsibilities to its people and to the centre, would do more for us as a people than any other process of revamping the economy that the government is attempting.

The effect of this restructuring would include increased efficiency in the different states, concentration of the different states in areas where they have comparative advantages, improvement of public institutions in order to be able to cater for themselves and not depending on handouts from the centre.

Right now our schools are incapable of granting admissions to our students because of the sheer small size if these schools, their budgets and therefore inability to expand within these constraints. The students that do get admitted to universities do not gain much marketable skills because, again we are not concentrating on the goal but we are interested in just having schools. The result of all these is that we continue losing our best and brightest to countries like the USA. This is not strange neither is it new because it is happening simultaneously in places like Venezuela that have failed to provide social capital to its citizenry, effectively driving them away.

Thank you for sharing. It is lovely that we have steemit where we can have unbiased, uncensored discussions on the best approach to make our country better. We can learn a thing or two about the democracy of Steemit and see if it won't serve us better.

Have a lovely day and Happy independence.

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Thank you. I really had no choice. I have never been good at politics but I'm a practical person with a passion for excellence and it breaks my heart to see my people make the same mistakes over and over again.

I don't know how I missed your reply since yesterday but I'm glad I caught it. I wish I could have a bot or something that will give me alerts when I receive replies and comments so I don't miss any.

It is an absolute pleasure to have you stop by. You're appreciated.

Thanks for your comment will work on this

Thank you brother for taking the time to reply. We are good people and I'm really proud of the Nigerians in steemit. Steem on

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