Is education really the main difference between Nigeria and Taiwan?
1..Are Nigerians at present not being educated?
2..How market-relevant is Nigerian education?
Medical training in Nigeria is fairly good. Our products compare well with those of many advanced countries. They often pass their accreditation exams and enter into their system.
3..How well have these locally produced products fared within Nigeria?
4..If Nigeria got the same low illiteracy level and the same market-relevant quality of education as Taiwan, will our national performance predictably or necessarily be far better? Will it materially change our development trajectory?
Can we interrogate these closely?
Correct answers to the right questions may help us diagnose our ailments better. The correct diagnosis is the minimum and first step in finding the right cure for any ailment.
5.. From your answer to the first 4 questions, what appears to you to be the main differences in national performance, between Nigeria and the following randomly selected, more successful but disparate countries like Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, Holland, the UAE, China, and Japan?
6..Assuming your analysis above is substantially correct, how then should we fix our core problems? Do you think we can, in the next 10 years? What’s the probability that we will?