A country blessed with numerous amount of natural resources. A country with great vegetative soil. A country blessed with great minds. A country whose currency was once valuable than the US dollar. A country of mine, Nigeria.
The question today is this;
Can Nigeria be better?
My readers would have noticed that the title my articles are mostly questions, I do this because I am someone that like looking at the world from different views and I can only get those different views from the minds of different people. So don’t hesitate to always give your opinion at the comment section
First of all, it would be best if I layout the problems of Nigeria and see if there is ever a solution to solve the problems.
Scarcity of food
Imagine a country with 2672 yearly hours of sunlight have scare food resources. Nigeria has one of the best planting land in the world and at some point we were one of the top exporters of palm oil and cocoa. So what happened?
Farmers are not supported here in the country, the government focus is only on the crude oil and that’s what the country is running on majorly.
But there was a time where Nigeria’s national cake was made with money gotten from tiling the soil. There is a building at Ibadan called Cocoa House, it’s is called this name because the building was built using the money gotten from the export of Cocoa.
Presently, the country depends on importation of food and since we don’t produce anything majorly, our currency is constantly worthless and food is ridiculously expensive in the country.
what can we do to fight hunger in the country?
Unemployment
Record shows that about 33% of youths are unemployed. Every year Universities produce fresh graduate and I can say that 80% of fresh graduates don’t find job in the first few years of graduation (it’s just my estimate). When there is no job people are idle and hungry hence they look for other means of survival which most times is on the negative side.
A lot of undergraduate student and even graduates have chosen the path of scam, popularly know as “yahoo yahoo”. There is a constant increase of yahoo boys and how even girls are so much involved in scam.
I’m not in anyway justifying the evil act that these young ones perpetrate but I believe that there won’t be a lot of them if they have something that give them a means of livelihood
Bad leadership
A wise man once said “when a bad leader rules, the people suffer “ I can boldly say that Nigerians would agree with me that they have suffered and are still suffering because of decisions they have taken during election.
I believe the one and only problem that all other problems are linked to is this one.
Bad leaders have been leading Nigerians for a very very long time. Nigerian leaders are concerned about themselves and the lives of their families and that’s not what leadership is about. If you want to be concern about yourself alone which is not even a right way to live just be a common citizen. Why would you be in a position where any little thing you do affect the whole people and still be selfish.
Nigerians are not new to hearing news of embezzlement and how one government official stole this and that amount of money. What do the justice system do to them?
They would ask some to drop about 20% of the money stolen. Funny right? Why wouldn’t they steal more if they are not brought behind the fury of the law.
It’s sad but I hope things change for this country of ours.
God bless Nigeria.
I first published this article on read.cash https://read.cash/@baned/can-nigeria-be-better-7090c63e