In my opinion, our major problem is complacency. We are too patient, too happy. The talk about restructuring has been a recurrence in the media recently. While I don't know the inner machinations of government, I suspect that restructuring from our present system of power and resources being concentrated at the centre (which they are now calling 'feeding bottle' democracy) to a decentralised system where each state is a power hub with its own set of responsibilities to its people and to the centre, would do more for us as a people than any other process of revamping the economy that the government is attempting.

The effect of this restructuring would include increased efficiency in the different states, concentration of the different states in areas where they have comparative advantages, improvement of public institutions in order to be able to cater for themselves and not depending on handouts from the centre.

Right now our schools are incapable of granting admissions to our students because of the sheer small size if these schools, their budgets and therefore inability to expand within these constraints. The students that do get admitted to universities do not gain much marketable skills because, again we are not concentrating on the goal but we are interested in just having schools. The result of all these is that we continue losing our best and brightest to countries like the USA. This is not strange neither is it new because it is happening simultaneously in places like Venezuela that have failed to provide social capital to its citizenry, effectively driving them away.

Thank you for sharing. It is lovely that we have steemit where we can have unbiased, uncensored discussions on the best approach to make our country better. We can learn a thing or two about the democracy of Steemit and see if it won't serve us better.

Have a lovely day and Happy independence.