Neo-colonialism: Is Nigeria Still Under British Rule?

[Hispo]

I would rather blame the corrupt politicians and businessmen for this chaos which Nigeria has fallen into and everyone is aware about the kind of mineral wealth on which Nigeria is currently sitting atop, it's pretty obvious that former masters have fair share of evil deeds which are done and the way Nigeria is being exploited but who is letting this happen? It's the top elite in power and they are exploited entire population and betraying their nation for the administrative post which has been gifted by them hence we cannot entirely blame the foreign power when we have traitors amongst us.

That is correct. There movements in most of the former colonies around the world who to this day continue to blame the colonizers rather than looking inwards and find the failures within the administration of the country itself. It is true that during the colony era of most of our countries there were crimes and much unfairness against the local population for the sake of wealth and take over natural resources, but sadly it is easier for anyone to continue to blame others instead ourselves for allowing literal crooks to climb into power, and delay the growth of a whole country by their implicit treason.

It is quite ironic, while most of the former colonies have more natural resources than the colonizers' countries the latter have managed to keep their status of developed country and "first World" while, if used correctly, a fraction of the wealth of Nigeria could be used to improve the economy beyond imagination. It is a similar case here where I live, by the way.

[pinggoki]

I'm not from Nigeria, but this topic is very interesting to me.
So what solution are you suggesting to solve this "neo-colonial" problem? Nationalization of the Nigerian oil industry? AFAIK, Nigeria exports most of it's oil and natural resources to the western countries. I'm sure that those countries won't be happy, if the western companies get kicked out of Nigeria. You say that Nigeria exports natural resources and imports industrial products. Why Nigeria can't go thru the process of industrialization in order to produce it's own industrial products? Is anyone stopping Nigeria to do such thing? The corrupt politicians? The western corporations? The lack of educated workforce and enough capital to be invested in the industry?
Whining about the problem won't solve it. I want to discuss the possible solutions.

The problem with nationalization is that you're going to have a lot of enemies that have the money at their disposal to make sure that their interests are protected and your plans crumble right in your face, that's going to be a hard path to traverse especially in a country like Nigeria, there's bound to be people that's internally against that policy and the colonial mentality of some people are going to be a hindrance to that plan. It's also difficult to replace those western companies because if there's no machineries and equipment that's manufactured in Nigeria, they're going to have a hard time seizing the oil for themselves and even if they can buy outside the country, either someone will embargo them and not allow them to have those necessary stuff to operate on their own and the money needed is going to be an enormous amount, that's why they've allowed western companies to drill oil there in the first place, they've got the money to buy those equipment and build the refineries.

[Funke]

The answer to the topic of discussion is "YES" . Nigeria is not only under the British rule but, we are under the rule of the first and second world powers.

Neo-colonialism is a concept of governance or principle that  stipulates and promote an indirect capturing and domination of the processes of governance and economy of former colonial territories or states.

Neo-colonialism is mostly an economic domination of formerly colonized areas by their former colonial masters through modern means of economics.

Imperialism and Neo-colonialism started it's foundation in Nigeria as the former Royal Niger Company. The company had the authority of the royal seal to extract and export the natural resources of Nigeria to England for the advancement of their economy and industrial productions.

The system of governance adopted our traditional institution on two grounds 1. For language interpretation and 2. Resistance by the people. This whole adoption was for administrative convinence band elimination of resistance.

The native people became part of the exploitation process of themselves and their generations which we are seeing today. The introduction of the traditional institution into the process for the British government to rule the people through the chiefs and kings, the process provided,  An elite class that  became marchants  through incorporation into this evil of exploitation.

And after the gain of independence, the Nigerian state is still exploited through multinational corporations and companies Like Shell and Chevron, where our people are kept at the levels of artisans and administrators while , they bring their people as technical expartes.

In most cases like the days of colonialism, our people are kept as administrative heads in supporting the transfer of our resources to Europe and America for processing and reintroduction into Nigeria as finished goods.

The end tale of this arrangement is that, Nigeria becomes the source of their raw materials and their market. With this pattern, Nigerians are used to kill the idea of indigenization, production and distribution to show their loyalty to the western imperialist and to keep their administrative positions in those companies.

We must liberate ourselves through enlightenment. Your contributions please.

Neo-colonialism and imperialism by kwame Nkrumah was one of the books that expose some of these pre-colonial and post colonial economic dominance, but personally I will like to disagree with some of these postulations because in the present economic and political governance of the Nigerian state, we can see that the direct policies of government are made by indigenous leaders of the Nigerian state, these present policies that are made, gives a direct economic effect of Nigeria at the moment. Of course everybody will have a history some of the realities of the past, some can be cruel and some can be brutal, but in all it points to the fact that we were coming from somewhere,  we where exploited at one point no doubt, one thing is you should understand is the fact that some of this dominance are pre-colonial and in this post colonial era, the effect of government policies is carried by leaders of the moment, so I absorb the colonial masters of the present economic or social political crisis that is bedeviling the Nigerian state.
Those of them at helm's of affairs should start making policies and programs that will better the lots of their people, policies that are geared towards human development and economic Sustainability, and you will see that some of this memories that we have about pre-colonial events will begin to fizzle out and remain as history.  We are not the only country in the world that where colonized by the British, there are lots and lots of countries that were colonized by British and have moved on and developed themselves in an advance manner.

We are greatly influenced by the foreign policies of the Nigerian state, these policies are formulated on the basis of International principles.

When the budget of the Nigerian state is planned, internal and external grants are considered as part of the sources. By that , we also depend on the western economic powers.

We are not totally free from them on economic , technological and religious basis.

[slapper]

Neo-colonialism, especially in Nigeria, has interested me. You vividly depict economic servitude, and previous colonial powers' effect is hard to ignore. Shouldn't we investigate how these historical relationships affect economic policies? Clearly, international firms influence this dynamic. I wonder how Nigeria could renegotiate these power systems. Consider economic sovereignty. More than political independence, it's about resource and economic power. Promoting local industry and lowering foreign dependence may help. Isn't this a monumental task necessary for true autonomy

[Churchillvv]

The politics that is been displayed to the public is very much different what is really happening. our national president is more like a ceremonial representative an external force making decisions for the country framing it to sound like we are free whereas the own they country.

even from the origin of the world Nigeria it's not an originally initiated country rather a business center for different countries to collab and take the natural resources dumbing there stories to us inorder for we not to take action inform of a holy book called bible while the original is with them.

There gave Nigeria independence in public while they heard a secret meeting at cross rivers state headquarters back then was the headquarters of Nigeria where the  ex president was to take an oat to be a representative of them while they retire to there various countries.

infact I will have to stop here if you wish to know more about Nigeria just go and get one of the books of Micheal crowder history of Nigeria or the Nigerian books of record by unknown author (though it's banned Nigeria) because of the truth in it but I still got one in my library that I got from a location that can't be disclosed.

The conclusion is Nigeria is under indirect colonial rule through international co-operations that you know about.

[Bushdark]

Is Nigeria is still controlled by the British people? I don't think so because Nigeria is ruled by the government of Nigeria and nothing more.
There could still be small influence by the British on Nigeria since it is ne of the countries they were able to colonized and after the independence of the federal republic of Nigeria, freedom was gotten and the country became a self ruled and make proper decisions on their sovereignty.

[Funke]

I would rather blame the corrupt politicians and businessmen for this chaos which Nigeria has fallen into and everyone is aware about the kind of mineral wealth on which Nigeria is currently sitting atop, it's pretty obvious that former masters have fair share of evil deeds which are done and the way Nigeria is being exploited but who is letting this happen? It's the top elite in power and they are exploited entire population and betraying their nation for the administrative post which has been gifted by them hence we cannot entirely blame the foreign power when we have traitors amongst us.

You have an insight into the economic dynamics suffering the Nigerian state.

[Hispo]

Is Nigeria is still controlled by the British people? I don't think so because Nigeria is ruled by the government of Nigeria and nothing more.
There could still be small influence by the British on Nigeria since it is ne of the countries they were able to colonized and after the independence of the federal republic of Nigeria, freedom was gotten and the country became a self ruled and make proper decisions on their sovereignty.

You may need to research about what people call Colonialism and Neo-Colonialnism, the differenced between them and how they are applied in different countries/states.
In a colony or in colonial rule, a nation is directly ruled by the will of a different nation or kingdom from overseas, the ruling nation implants their traditions, language, religion and culture in the dominated one.

In the case of Neo-Colonialnism is more about using indirect mechanisms to culturally influence the former colonies, so they can still be somehow ruled or have their habitants to have a very positive perception of the former super-power which dominated their ancestors. The Neo-Colonialnism uses tools like education, cinema, political propaganda, Radio, Tv-shows, among other things. So people get their local culture even more displaced by the foreign one.

One of the biggest examples of it would be buying Macdonalds before going to the Cinema to watch a Hollywood movie, while living in a country like India.

[Briankimp1]

I'm not from Nigeria, but this topic is very interesting to me.
So what solution are you suggesting to solve this "neo-colonial" problem? Nationalization of the Nigerian oil industry? AFAIK, Nigeria exports most of it's oil and natural resources to the western countries. I'm sure that those countries won't be happy, if the western companies get kicked out of Nigeria. You say that Nigeria exports natural resources and imports industrial products. Why Nigeria can't go thru the process of industrialization in order to produce it's own industrial products? Is anyone stopping Nigeria to do such thing? The corrupt politicians? The western corporations? The lack of educated workforce and enough capital to be invested in the industry?
Whining about the problem won't solve it. I want to discuss the possible solutions.

The seeds of the problem Nigeria finds itself has been sowed ages ago from the initial thread you can see the presence of a company prior to the creation of the state of Nigeria the Royal Niger company that company still exists today with a different name and it’s roots are deep rooted in the country they stay anonymous while ruling the country they are planted in every arm of Government, Institution and  region of the nation with their orders gotten from their neo-colonial masters.
Proper education will be their downfall like they say you can’t solve a problem without identifying you’ve got one most people both old and young have little to no knowledge of what we speak of sensitization will be their downfall but whoever tries to speak out will either be silenced by whichever means necessarily.
This is a global business run by the world elite Nigeria is just a single pun in a big game of chess played by the Evil globalist in the words of Prof. PLO Lumumba “When Nigeria is liberated Africa will be liberated”.

[Mate2237]

Nigeria used different means to fought to get her independent and in the process different groups were also formed to fight against the white oppression. And finally Nigeria got her independent in the year 1960. Now the irony here is that Nigeria was not fighting to get economic freedom but for political freedom and British with their wise wisdom gave them the political freedom and retain the economic freedom and in a country the person who is in charge of the economy tells you what to do.

Therefore British government tells Nigerian government what to do because they control the country economy and that the neo-colonialism come to an existence in the African countries.

[Hispo]

Nigeria used different means to fought to get her independent and in the process different groups were also formed to fight against the white oppression. And finally Nigeria got her independent in the year 1960. Now the irony here is that Nigeria was not fighting to get economic freedom but for political freedom and British with their wise wisdom gave them the political freedom and retain the economic freedom and in a country the person who is in charge of the economy tells you what to do.

Therefore British government tells Nigerian government what to do because they control the country economy and that the neo-colonialism come to an existence in the African countries.

That is a story I have seen being repeated over and over when comes to the independency of African republics, actually, we could argue neo-colonization is one of the factors which have led several of the lastest military coups in central Africa to happen.
France hold power over the Uranium mines there through the use of their transnational companies, politically France and the United Kingdom have held no power over those countries, but still there is a high influence coming from the north.

Makes me wonder how much of both political and economical power other post-colonial republics holds for themselves. India used to be a country under the rule of the United Kingdom and before it, under the Company of Easter Indies. And yet, I have got the impression they have managed to get most of their independence back from colonial times.