Yes, I noticed your handiwork on the post. You're like the eagles from Lord of The Rings lol
Your points about laws are well-noted. You and @spaceballoon are clearly on the same wavelength. Your country/countries have centuries of institutional memory of rules worth following and people following the rules, Nigeria ... not so much. We have a lot of good people but very very badly maintained systems both bureaucratic and infrastructural.
The way forward? As he and I discussed, the issue is the English Longbowman Paradox. This generation are the grandfathers from that anecdote, now we need to create the grandchildren.
It is true that there is a very important factor in cultural memory. Nigeria is a young country, it has been through a lot of violence and it has oil (which seem somehow to be more of a curse than a blessing. Just look at Venezuela and the Arab countries).
I know a guy whose father was an Igbo refugee from the civil war and came to Denmark as a young man. As education is free here he took a medical exam and when he had worked a couple of years as a doctor he invested his money in hospital beds and other medical equipment that was being replaced in the Danish medical system. Then he flew to Lagos with the whole shipment to start a hospital and help rebuild the Nation.
But in the airport the toll officials refused to let him in with all kinds of stupid excuses and he refused to pay them anything because he did not want to start his new life in Nigeria doing something that was not only wrong, but also what he thought was the source of all the suffering in his country. After three days he went back to Denmark with his hospital beds, and today he is a chief doctor up here and has a Danish wife and three children, but what a waste of a resourceful man just because of some corrupt toll officials. (and also in some way bad for him because he freezes all the time - hehe (that is according to his son)). Somehow the formative years he had as a young man in Denmark made it impossible for him to return. He simply despised corruption too much as is the general sentiment in his new home country.
That is why I am pleased that it is debated like this in Nigeria. It does not start on the individual level but it starts in individuals who form a consensus. That is how the grandchildren are created... I hope :)
Oh such stories are abundant. The amount of brain drain (particularly young doctors) fleeing Nigeria for Australia, the UK and Canada and Dubai and basically, anywhere but here? It is terrifying. Worst of all, you can't blame them. If you check the stats, our people are achieving incredible things in the diaspora because they're in an environment where their talents match the infrastructure. That surgeon that extracted a fetus, took out the tumor and put the fetus back in the mom to be carried to term? Nigerian. Chief designer of the Chevy Volt? Nigerian. Smartest Family in the UK? Nigerians. Drone/robotics whiz in Texas with like 6 zillion PhDs? Nigerian. The list goes on.
If our country has nothing to offer its best people, then those best will either do their jobs at 1/100th potential, flee or be pushing wheelbarrows in the market.
And that's where we are.
My impression is that Nigerians take education very seriously, and that is a very good thing. Brain drain is very bad for a country though, no doubt about it, but looking around I would still see this as an important thing.
The Arab countries could actually learn a lot from you in that regard - but somehow the trend in parts of sunni Islam is to turn your back to knowledge and education.