Nigeria @57: Comments from home and abroad

PUNCH
"Nigeria, a failed state: Nigeria is in the wrong direction. The country is not doing well. The indices of good governance are clear worldwide. The only way to stop agitations is to engage the youths in meaningful ventures. The world is selling knowledge not baggage economy. Nigeria needs to embrace knowledge- based economy. With such an economy in place, by the year 2020, the country will join the world to create 25million job opportunities for the youths."- Peter Obi

LEADERSHIP
"ACF therefore salutes the governments and people of Nigeria for their determination, perseverance, patience and hope in our nation and urges most especially our leaders both elected and appointed at all levels to re-examine their social contract with the electorates and do the needful"- Arewa Consultative Forum

DALIY  POST
"The single threat to Nigeria development is that most Nigerians don't think and act as people who believe in this country that is why you see people loot this nation like Nigeria will vanish from the surface of this earth. Some leaders are more united in looting than developing the country"-APC Chairman Cross River State.

"Whichever way it is viewed, wheather region, zone or state, Islam or Christianity , we all have comparative advantages of living together . We must contribute towards making our dear country a better place"-David Mark

"Nigeria@57, an entity of tribalistic nepotism and democratic falsism. "- Agwah Michael

PULSE NG
"After nearly 18-unbroken years of democracy and despite positive assertions to the contrary, our democracy keeps floundering under the watch of the federal government just as the vast majority of Nigerians are alienated from the state and estranged from the development process and denied the dividends of democracy. If economic progress is the test of our democracy then we have failed as a nation. We all crave for strong national institutions to support our democracy, protect our freedoms and advance our development"-Governor Wike . Rivers State.

The Nation
"Most people forget that in the next 10  or 20 years this country will be one of the most populous nation on the face of the earth. You cann't have that kind of density of human population arguing everyday and everytime about injustices and imbalances. There will be an implosion"- Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State.

ZURUMNEWS247
"I agree with Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu that breaking Nigeria into small insignificant units would not solve our challenges, rather it will diminish our regional , continental and global profile. Nigeria is envy of all nations based on its size and huge potentials"-Gov. Sani Bello, Niger State.

BNN
"We must do away with generational hatred that has been handed over to successive generations making them hate or dislike or be suspicious of the other . We must learn to view ourselves as citizens who matter to its country and nation"-Aisha Yesufu. Activist, Co-convener of Bringback our girls group, BBOG

"We believe that  at 57 Nigeria should be restructured and should be done now. We need to allow the states own more of the activities of government. We need to allow power to be devolved from the centre to the states, so that states can work ,because many of our states are dead."-Samuel Nwanosike, PDP Publicity Secretary, Rivers State.

PUNCH
"Therefore those asking for the opportunity to negotiate their existence within the Nigerian state based on their ethnic or cultural identities have a right so to do, as captured in the international convenant on economic, social and cultural rights to which Nigeria is a signatory. President Buhari has a responsibility to make it happen. "- Tunde Bakare

Media Nigeria
"The entire national day broadcast by President Buhari on the occassion of Nigeria's 57th independence is quite disappointing in all ramifications. It was very Un-Presidential and Un-Reconciliatory . The president celebrated mediocrity and edified his government's non-performance two and half years down the line. I geniunely wondered if he was discussing the same country Nigeria that I am in or another utopian planet mars"- Mike Ozekhome.

News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)
"Our nation is at a point where we as christians have to rise up and teach our nation the virtues that Jesus Christ taught us : loving our neighbours, praying for even our enemies uniting the body and uniting all at the centre. we will live in this nation to declare the wonderous works of God, we will prosper in this nation and we will hand to generations yet unborn a better country"-Professor Osibanjo, Nigeria's Vice-President

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