According to him, China did the same for 40 years, and today it is a great nation. Ali’s logic is, at best, simplistic.
Of course, self-help and national autonomy are ideals that are worth a country’s aspiration, but the reality is far more complicated. If shutting down a country’s borders makes a country great as Ali insinuated, North Korea should be the greatest in the world. They are the world’s least open nation, yet, a poster child of arrested development.
It is disingenuous for Nigeria to start promoting a half-baked thesis about border closure as a means to economic growth so that they can find popular acceptance for their border closure policy. Ali’s talk about building Nigeria into a great country like China while eliding the glaring factors that mitigate against Nigeria’s growth is cheap.
Ali also asked a question that seemed profound, but only until you attempt an answer. He wondered how Nigeria could claim independence if other countries feed our population. The truth is, no country in the world single-handedly feeds itself. Rather than cede every inch of your country’s land to farming, countries choose to import agricultural produce where they see a comparative cost advantage.
No b lie
It will make Nigeria
Boarder closure is good only for countries that are strategic and knows what they are doing.
We know 😂😂😂 Maybe it will make Nigeria great 😋😋😋😋
Border closure and strict laws.
Thank you... It was there laws they put in place.... That was why the system worked out for them....
We have closed our own, they is nothing any smuggler can do about it.
Thank you cos our currupt people are thinking the closure will make us bera when curruption is still highly cherished
Indeed, I wonder why this nation are into economic comparison of a standardize nation while the law makers are not comparing themselves with the law makers of such country
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