Nations rise when they improve productivity [Video]

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Comment 1: Very true Prof. Ndubuisi Ekekwe.
#Technology is an enhancer to productivity improvement.
The technology doesn’t have to be complex or complicated but should be #effective with respect to the local content. That is, focused on the strengths, needs, the potential and resources that are locally present as seen in the video.

Comment 2: Improve productivity? Not enough in our case. The foundation is too flawed to support any meaningful structure.
Look at the state of the nation, yet the president is comfortably cooling off inside Aso Rock, the legislators that ought to have woken him up are even more asleep, snoring their lives away, while Nigeria is bleeding.

Our elite military academy was embarrassed and desecrated by criminals, yet 7pm passed without a national broadcast from the supposed president, rallying his compatriots and letting the criminals know that we are coming for them, wherever they are.
After 9/11 happened and President Bush spoke to Americans, and informed the terrorists about what was to come, did you notice how young people enlisted in the military and went after the terrorists? Nobody had time to talk about Republicans or Democrats, but fighting to defend what America stood for! But because we have mercenaries and aliens in power, they are carrying on as though all is well.
The enemies of Nigeria want to ground Nigeria, and they have plenty enablers in the corridors of power and in the military, no amount of improvement in productivity can beat that.

Comment 3: 100% agree Ndubuisi Ekekwe .
I present to various agrofood companies in Africa an NMR solution which allowed them to get fat and water content of any food (plus some other characteristics and it is non destructive) in less than 1 min.
The answer was “Why investing new ? We have soxhlet and oven (which takes 4-5 h). It is cheaper”
And this is everywhere in Africa I hear that. East or west, north or south, francophone or anglophone.

Comment 4: The Problem is the Local Culture.
We have a very Subsistence Culture. Your average Nigerian doesn’t want to change the world. They just want to import things and make money. The Producers just want to produce enough to give them a house, a wife, 5 or 10 fleet of cars and a Chieftaincy Title, chikena. We’re very small minded and as a result, are not really driven to scale anything. People or someone must desire Scale before we can have it.

Asians, on the other hand, have a Commercial Culture. These guys think Global from day one and as a result they always have the compulsion to Mass Produce. They are masters of the 20/80 Rule. We need to first put our people in a Commercial State of Mind or create a system that does that but Sachetises the machineries of Mass Production so that the aggregate of our Subsistence contributions are sufficient.

Comment 5: A lot of those street kids designing demos can do these and even more, but Govt has killed or still killing most of them. The political class is busy using time and resources to build their destinies to organize royal weddings and funerals.

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