First, since we do not have the money to properly educate our children to compete in a modern high-technology world, we must implement a disciplined family planning that advocate and encouages each family to have only one child. An only child will recieve far better education than a child with six brothers ad sisters. Second, we must overhaul our universities and polytechnics to enable them to produce 200,000 well-trained scientists and engineers each year. Third, the computer industry rewards creativity and penalized conformity. We must encourage creativity and produce an entreprenurial work force.
Nigerian culture encourages conformity, deference and respect for elders, teachers, and leaders.
Outspoken journalists have been imprisoned for expressing their political beliefs. As a result, Nigerian editors are afraid to write the truth to the people. Nigerian politicians lack the courage and conviction of Nelson Mandela and are afraid to probe military officers for corrpution. We should entice large information technology companies such as Microsoft, Netscape, IBM, Sun Microsystems, British Telecom, Motorola and Sony to Cyber Corridor by developing the infrastructure such as fiber-optic cables, good roads, safe water, constant electricty, reliable telephones, good schools, modern hospitals, quality housing, leisure and entertainment facilities. In addition, we should permit foreign informtion technology companies to operate tax-free, bring in highly trained foreign workers, liberalize our laws to allow foreign investors to repatriate some of their profits with less protocol, assure the personal safety of both indigenes and foreigners, rectify our image as the most corrupt nation on earth, ensure political stability by eliminating coups d'etat and train the workforce for the new information age.