President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, has said that his country is the “most highly developed country in Africa” after South Africa, even ahead of Nigeria and Egypt.



Mugabe stated this at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban, South Africa.


“After South Africa, I want to see what country has the level of development that you see in Zimbabwe.”

“We have over 14 universities and our literacy rate is over 90 [%] – is the highest in Africa.

“Yes, we have our problems… but we have resources, perhaps more than the average country in the world, is it gold, diamond, coal… and our agriculture is very viable and this year we will have a bumper harvest,” he said.


Zimbabwe is ranked 24th on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for Africa, and 154th in the world. Nigeria is in 152nd place.

http://www.gistpeeps.com/2017/05/zimbabwe-more-developed-than-nigeria-mugba.html

Age is finally catching up with this OLD MAN.

what do you expect! Nigeria and Zimbabwe both has Old and sick Presidents! plus they receive goats, cows and other livestock as collateral for loans in Zimbabwe's Bank

Africans leader develop their country for context, not for neccesity this mentality is really dragging us behind. By the way who has him question that warrant that datum

Don't blame him, he has been reading a lot of bad stories about Nigeria.

Me I think Namibians are more developed than our leaders.

Gistpeeps:
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, has said that his country is the “most highly developed country in Africa” after South Africa, even ahead of Nigeria and Egypt.



Mugabe stated this at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban, South Africa.


“After South Africa, I want to see what country has the level of development that you see in Zimbabwe.”

“We have over 14 universities and our literacy rate is over 90 [%] – is the highest in Africa.

“Yes, we have our problems… but we have resources, perhaps more than the average country in the world, is it gold, diamond, coal… and our agriculture is very viable and this year we will have a bumper harvest,” he said.


Zimbabwe is ranked 24th on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for Africa, and 154th in the world. Nigeria is in 152nd place.

http://www.gistpeeps.com/2017/05/zimbabwe-more-developed-than-nigeria-mugba.html

You have 14 universities? Wow....But Nigeria has 250 sir.

So you are simply not in our league.

I blame you nee ....When we are having someone like you in my country dt loves power and authority than his health....... Ur manhood still lives on mumu

mtchew!

Who still takes Robert Mogabe serious?

He said this statement (South Africa is the only African country surpassing Zimbabwe in developmental ranking) in Durban, South Africa. He said this because he was in South Africa.
If he was not in South Africa, he would have said Zimbabwe is more developed than South Africa.

Robert Mogabe is a nonagenerian, one should expect some symptoms of old age from him.

BTW they have constant electricity and running water in their big cities in Zimbabwe. I visited a friend in Kewkwe recently (Kwekwe is to Zimbabwe what a city like Ado-Ekiti is to Nigeria), and for my 3 days there, the light did not blink. I also did not see a single generator.

Might want to chew on that before you laugh at Mugabe.

Nigeria is a lot worse than many of you realise.

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At this stage I'm inclined to believe that every country is more developed than Nigeria. Besides I have never been to Zimbabwe, so why should I doubt Mugabe's claims?

Rossikk:
You have 14 universities? Wow....But Nigeria has 250 sir.

So you are simply not in our league.

Relative to their population, silly.

First of all, the number of universities in Nigeria (including those awaiting accreditation) is still 130 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Nigeria. I don't know which babalawo you conjured your delusional figures from.

14 universities to 12 million people is a much better ratio than 130 universities to 180 million people.

We're the ones who are not in their league.

thesicilian:
At this stage I'm inclined to believe that every country is more developed than Nigeria. Besides I have never been to Zimbabwe, so why should I doubt Mugabe's claims?

You are a wise person.

True

GEJPosterity:
BTW they have constant electricity and running water in their big cities in Zimbabwe. I visited a friend in Kewkwe recently (Kwekwe is to Zimbabwe what a city like Ado-Ekiti is to Nigeria), and for my 3 days there, the light did not blink. I also did not see a single generator.

Might want to chew on that before you laugh at Mugabe.

Nigeria is a lot worse than many of you realise.

So their big cities having constant electricity is what makes them more developed than Nigeria?

He could be right.
Zimbabwe is not led by an illiterate
Also, Zimbabweans do not kill their citizens like ants, that's what development means.
Nigeria is a Zoo

LastMumu:

So their big cities having constant electricity is what makes them more developed than Nigeria?

They also have running water, smooth, tarred roads all over their cities, subsidised social housing, 90%+ literacy and human development indices that are far superior to at least half of Nigeria. Their infrastructure stock was built by Europeans before majority rule happened in 1980 without a destructive civil war. They are also having a bumper harvest, meeting all their internal food needs with leftover to export - Nigeria is still importing garri and wheat and corn.

By all objective measures, Zimbabwe is a more developed country than Nigeria. Visit it and you will be shocked at how backward Nigeria actually is, relative to even the rest of Africa. It's only in the minds of delusional Nigerians who don't travel that Nigeria is some kind of great, important country. Nigeria is actually a backward, inconsequential West African British vassal state led by illiterates, where its most expensive high class neighbourhoods have open gutters, individual septic tanks, boreholes and diesel generators.

You need to get out more.

mugabe said d gospel truth. nijeriya is notin but a big wilderness.
imagine if biafra is an independent con3 since 1970, we will be competing with south korea, not south africa.

GEJPosterity:

Relative to their population, silly.

First of all, the number of universities in Nigeria (including those awaiting accreditation) is still 130 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Nigeria. I don't know which babalawo you conjured your delusional figures from.

14 universities to 12 million people is a much better ratio than 130 universities to 180 million people.

We're the ones who are not in their league.

Sure...I bet you'd never leave Nigeria to go live in Zimbabwe tho. Big mouth, little brain.

GEJPosterity:
BTW they have constant electricity and running water in their big cities in Zimbabwe. I visited a friend in Kewkwe recently (Kwekwe is to Zimbabwe what a city like Ado-Ekiti is to Nigeria), and for my 3 days there, the light did not blink. I also did not see a single generator.

Might want to chew on that before you laugh at Mugabe.

Nigeria is a lot worse than many of you realise.

...Leave Nigerians to keep deceiving themselves..Big for nothing country that uses generators as a source of power supply even in 21st century.such a shame.

Rossikk:
Sure...I bet you'd never leave Nigeria to go live in Zimbabwe tho. Big mouth, little brain.

Before you insult me, you had better make sure you're not speaking to your intellectual superior, you this delusional pinhead. I am not your mate Rossikk, or whatever you call yourself. The only thing you are known for on this platform and elsewhere is for posting delusional nonsense, lies and half truths in pursuit of some equally delusional "Nigerianist" agenda. I'm not interested in your politics or whatever deep lying inferiority complex makes you so attracted to any conversation where the word "Nigeria" is mentioned. Whatever you are compensating for, you had better leave me out of it. I don't take kindly to being aggressed by the likes of you at all.

Do not do this again in your life.

All thanks to the useless PhD holder who was busy making illegal millionaires with fake economic growth statistics

GEJPosterity:

They also have running water, smooth, tarred roads all over their cities, subsidised social housing, 90%+ literacy and human development indices that are far superior to at least half of Nigeria. Their infrastructure stock was built by Europeans before majority rule happened in 1980 without a destructive civil war. They are also having a bumper harvest, meeting all their internal food needs with leftover to export - Nigeria is still importing garri and wheat and corn.

By all objective measures, Zimbabwe is a more developed country than Nigeria. Visit it and you will be shocked at how backward Nigeria actually is, relative to even the rest of Africa. It's only in the minds of delusional Nigerians who don't travel that Nigeria is some kind of great, important country. Nigeria is actually a backward, inconsequential West African British vassal state led by illiterates, where its most expensive high class neighbourhoods have open gutters, individual septic tanks, boreholes and diesel generators.

You need to get out more.

Shut up there. The GDP per capita of Zimbabwe is $970 per annum, compared to Nigeria's $2,750. You could not survive two days in Zimbabwe, with their food shortages, and shortages of basic goods and services. Before long, you will be crying to be returned to Nigeria. Idiot.

drss2:
mugabe said d gospel truth. nijeriya is notin but a big wilderness.
imagine if biafra is an independent con3 since 1970, we will be competing with south korea, not south africa.

Hehehe dem don come again o!

Your sense of humour is even greater than Mugabe.

Oxtonguy:
We know, nw run along Funny people everywhere

Don't mind that old fool.....he didn't know that our Lagos is more developed than Zimbabwe.....
We afonjas are more civilized and educated in the whole of Africa?