Why are Nigerians suffering in the midst of plenty ?

Question

Take petroleum products for example,Nigeria is not a Social ist country yet, private companies are not allowed to set up individual refinery companies to break the monopoly of the innefficient State owned NNPC.Instead of the Unions to agitate for private companies to be established, they are fightinting the Goverment not to sell its own refineries to the public.The trade unions are fighting for their selfish ends and not for the masses because the govt refineries have been there since ages without any improvement.Private refineries are the answers to the Nigeria's energy problems.They will also solve the unemployment headache,besides generating revenue by means of tax payment to the govt.Hostagetaking will stop as the youths will be gainfully employed..Electricity will be generated in abundant supply since there will be enough supply of GAS to its power generating stations.As a matter of fact , the multiplier effects will be more than what can be imagined for a stable polity.

Answer 1

They are suffering because they have the most corrupt government in the world.

Answer 2

Most of your answers sum it up well, simply corrupt government.
I worked in Nigeria once (on a contract for a Swiss company).
I have worked in many places overseas but this spot was unbelievable like being on another planet.
Just a couple of examples:-
It was decided by the government not to import anything at all that the Nigerian folk could make themselves not a bad idea I suppose.
So I was there to commission a newly built dry cement factory, I drove into the nearest town one day in a company truck, had a little walk around for about 30 minutes. When I returned to the truck it was gone. I called the site manager on the radio, he picked me up, driving back he said he knew he would receive a call from the town police telling him they had 'found' the truck and it could be collected, but there would be a 'fee'.
It seemed that one truck a week was taken by the police and recovered the following day for this 'fee'.
'Dash' is likely the most popular word in Nigeria, it just means tip or back hander!!
OK the plant was soon commissioned so now they could produce their own cement, what happened?
No orders because it was being illegally imported !
What to do about all this? Sorry I dont have a clue, but I for one dont ever want to see the place again.

Answer 3

Because they are surrounded by lots of greedy bastards, those in Nigerian uniforms, calling themselves soldiers and politicians, and others with American and English accents, from the oil world.

They are stripping the place of its assets, while the poor go hungry, and this is exactly the kind of place the Americans invade to 'restore' democracy. In other words, things the way they were.

The people in Nigeria have the right to rise up, and as they throw off the oppressor from within their own Country, they should line up all the foreigh Nationals against a wall and shoot the bastards.

Now that is called acting not in occord with the terrorism act of the UK, which basically blunts all opposition to investment which benefits only the rich.

Where you strip a Nation clean of its assets, leaving the poor hungry and uneducated, then the bullet in the chest is deserved.

Answer 4

Farrakhan vs Wallace so what? All Nations in this world are corrupt so don't play holly to misjudge on Nigeria!

Answer 5

It is called corruption. It may or may not have been the case when the country was a British Colony, but I can not help but feel It would have been better of as a colony of the British than it is now.

Answer 6

why you asking a question if you seem to have all the answers

Answer 7

So, who cares when we have problems in our own country

Answer 8

when they stop beating drums and practicing voodoo maybe they will make some progress