RE: Curtailing water pollution in oil rich countries using rivers state as a case study
Polluted water would no longer be necessary today and as our most precious resource, water deserves all our attention...
Your idea of paying people to collect and recycle rubbish is great. You are creating a protected segment of the labour market, which is characterised by the fact that the general public finances the people who do something for the general public.
The other idea with the biogas plants... I don't know enough about your energy structure in Nigeria. In this country, biogas plants are one of the (smaller) pillars of energy supply from renewable sources. Such plants are very economical and, incidentally, are already on the market for household needs (or relatively easy to build yourself...) Perhaps that would be a way of bypassing the state and taking your own measures? In the interests of the environment and consumers?
Speaking about the biogas.. when it comes to amenities like generating electricity, gas, roads. It’s provided from the central. That’s the federal government. Most states are even fighting “tooth and nail” to generate electricity but the federal government has refused to delegate power to that extent. That’s part of the reason there is always power failure in the country all the time. People celebrate each time they give us light…
We say we’re practicing federal system of government but we’re yet to practice true “federalism”.
Are there parties in your country that might want to change this political system? Do they have a real chance in the upcoming elections? Do you, as ordinary citizens, have the opportunity to do "your thing" and become independent of the respective political disaster...? Sorry for all the questions... You are so far away and not really present in our press and media...
From the look of things, we run a one party system in Nigeria. My reason for this is that the same old rotten politicians in the ruling party, were once in the opposition. If the opposition takes power now, you will see all of them go to opposition. Same corrupt set of people ruling us since 1960 till now… the reason for the backwardness and many young ones selling off their investments and properties just to migrate to another country and start over.
The electoral committee promised a free and fair election and promised that election results will be transmitted electronically.
That statement alone brought out a lot of people to come out and vote especially for this rising 3rd force party that we feel have pedigree to deliver the country. Even me, all through my 30+ years I’ve intentionally refused to go n vote because it doesn’t count but with the electronic live transmission, I was compelled to come out. Nigerians came out in masses to flush out those two old cargo party to vote the fresh 3rd party (labor party).
Guess what? in the end, our vote didn’t count. The electoral umpire themselves went behind to manipulate the network. House of senate and representatives results were transmitting life from the machine but the most important one, which is the presidential vote, we all needed wasn’t transmitting live like the other ones.
Well, it’s long gone and buried. We all move! No one can kill us at all.. our spirit cant be broken but after this act that the electoral umpires just did, trust me, if it was 70% that hate to vote considering the fact that vote doesn’t count, it just rose to 89% now..
If we decide to talk about Nigeria politics here… we’ll talk till next year and it won’t end…
I don't want to say that I am satisfied with German politics, not at all. But the framework conditions seem to me to be far more transparent and secure... I very much hope that your 3rd party or a new player can still bring about a positive change; you are the African country with the most inhabitants: You have weight!