Development Isn’t a thing in Nigeria because they are conceived as political artifacts rather than national infrastructure. Projects are scoped to fit the lifespan of a governor or president, not the operating life of the system itself. The incentive is not to build something that works as required but something that can be launched, branded, commissioned, and photographed under the disguise of we did something spectacular. In as much as this continues, each administration must relaunch the same category of projects because the previous ones were never designed to survive political transition. The result is motion without accumulation hence why we can’t move to the next phase of development. How many people believe in calling 112 in Nigeria? The 112 and 911 systems are not advanced technology. They are baseline state capacity. Yet in Nigeria they remain largely ineffective because they were never deployed as critical national infrastructure. They were deployed as state projects. That distinction matters. A system that exists to be announced behaves very differently from a system that exists to function as a critical infrastructure. In South Africa, emergency response is location driven rather than conversation driven. When a call comes in, the system does not rely on the caller to narrate geography. The dispatcher sees network derived caller location, that location is resolved against a national spatial database, confidence levels are displayed, and the system automatically computes the nearest response units. If the call drops, the incident does not die because the system already has enough information to act. This is not juju sophistication for its own sake. It is a recognition that human beings under distress are unreliable narrators and that systems must compensate for that reality. Nigeria operates the opposite model. Callers are interrogated for directions. Landmarks are subjective and inconsistent. Addressing is fragmented or nonexistent in large parts of the country. Telecom location data is not integrated into dispatch workflows despite being technically available. If a call drops, the incident often collapses because the system has no independent situational awareness. It is an architectural failure. A system that cannot reliably locate an incident is not partially broken. It is functionally broken. This same pathology repeats across sectors. CCTV programs are a prime example. Cameras are deployed in bursts aligned with political calendars. There is no phased architecture tied to coverage density, data retention, analytics capability, maintenance funding, or integration with police command systems. The result is predictable. After the cameras are launched, budgets disappear, feeds go dark, storage fails, and no one is held accountable because the objective was never sustained surveillance. It was visibility. A properly designed national system does not begin with optics. It begins with standards. It requires significant upfront investment and phased execution. Each phase must build on the previous one with clear performance metrics, governance structures, upgrade paths, and funding continuity. This approach looks slow and expensive at the beginning, which is precisely why Nigerian politics resists it. It does not reward immediate credit. But it is the only model that produces real capability. Anyway, welcome to Nigeria where development is determined by the government tenure.

The comment section is so nasty. She’s literally the wife of a Swiss diplomat. Why are people surprised that she’s been flown out? That’s also a Swiss Air Rescue (Rega) aircraft. Not everything has to do with the government being shady or something.

I keep seeing this Orchid in the news for crazy things. Is it that the place is heavily dominated by young guys? I have never heard of or witnessed law enforcement behaving like this where I live on the same island, yet I keep seeing this area come up whenever people complain about EFCC and police harassment.

As a man, why are you driving a 2016 to 2022 Lexus RX 350? As a man, why are you using an iPhone Air? As a man, why are you playing candy crush?

The girl with her own money and the girl from a rich home are actually not being separated by the money itself. They are being separated by the relationship each has with money and what that relationship produces in terms of behavior, expectation, and emotional dependency. Financial Independence and financial conditioning are two different things. And when it comes to financial conditioning, you'll enjoy the one from a wealthy family.

“Direct foreign used”

This should help you.

As a man who has the money and sense to buy a car, and who knows he isn’t a criminal, there’s no way your confidence should be this low in broad daylight. It’s not even at night, yet an officer is talking to you like this and you can’t even shut him down.

Even your principal takes life changing advice from a madman.

You people look at what happens within your own bubbles and then make blanket statements as if they’re general facts.

Just budget EPS money somewhere.

We are not children you can persuade with emotionally charged stories and selective political outrage. If you’re asking Nigerians to vote out a government over healthcare, make the case with evidence and hold every level of government accountable for the responsibilities it actually carries. If you’re arguing that APC is the problem, then establish that argument with evidence. Show us the record of the government you’re criticising, and more importantly, show us the record of the person or party you’re presenting as the alternative. What did they do when they had the opportunity to govern? What was their health budget? How much was actually spent? What hospitals were built or upgraded? What happened to access to care, maternal and infant mortality, staffing and emergency services under their administration? Give us a proper comparison, not just a tragic story followed by a political conclusion. Even if the federal government had a perfect healthcare system, federal medical centres and teaching hospitals are tertiary institutions, strategically distributed to provide specialist care. They are not generally intended to replace the primary and secondary healthcare systems people should be able to access closer to home. So why are we discussing the failure of Nigeria’s healthcare system as though the federal government and APC alone are responsible? Why not hold the state governors accountable for the hospitals and health systems under their control? And since you want to make this about APC, once again show us the evidence. How many states governed by other parties have demonstrably better healthcare systems than APC governed states? Show us the record of the governors and the party you’re asking Nigerians to support. What did they achieve in the states where they have governed that makes them a credible alternative on healthcare?

And some embassies are taking advantage of this. The Vietnamese Embassy, for example, appears to have placed Nigerian passport holders on a silent ban. The application fee is just $25. I applied with my Nigerian passport and waited two months without a response (and no response up till now). I reapplied with my British passport and got the visa in less than four days. Since I was travelling with some other people who have just the Nigerian passport, we discovered that all it takes is 600k through visa agents to get a Vietnamese visa. So basically, Nigerians apply directly, pay the $25 application fee, and get no response for months or years. Yet, through agents charging 600k, the process suddenly moves. I can only speak from my own experience, but the difference is hard to ignore. If applications are being processed through agents while direct applicants are left waiting indefinitely, I also wonder what the @NigeriaMFA is doing about it.

Shouldn't the state ministry of health seal off this hostel? It is clearly unfit for students to live in. There is no way a school dormitory should look like this. Not even animals should have to use that dreadful restroom.

“Not rent or bills, but bags and vacations.” Mind you, the bags and vacations cost more than the rent and bills.