tungamaje:
Are we sure Abuja streets are even as beautiful as what I am seeing here? May be those streets were developed by white men

forgiveness:


Nothing special here. Saw it in Port Harcourt last time I went there.

Artiiclebeast:
A sane mellow environment where people live a contented life without the greedy culture of materialism.

Nigerians will soon start trooping there to go run it down with their noise, filth, and thievery, and when the original owners get fed up with their nuisance level and ask them to leave their country for them, you'd start hearing "they are lazy, they are envious and jealous of us, they don't know how to do business, etc."

We are anyhow people jare

JaceBlaze:


Pshhh here we go with the word "ordinary".How do you admit that those countries are better than yours and still call them "ordinary"?

Electrochemistry:
The population of these countries is far below Nigeria. Overpopulation destroys the splendours of our cities.

IronGalaxy:
EY this word "ordinary" bro

Abagworo:


It is the private sector that will help achieve this if we were patriotic.

RuudVanNisteroy:
Nigerians cities should emulate the development of Gaborone and Francistown ,Botswana and Windhoek and Swakapmond in Namibia.


Botswana: Gaborone and Francistown

Ndipe:
This is a question I was asking myself today before I saw these pictures, "Will Nigeria rise again?"

osazuwa23:
[s]Tell me an african country with the size of nigeria that doing better then us there absolutely none. ethiopia is on the brink of falling apart.[/s]

brainhgeek:


Abuja roads beat these roads hands down. The only things that deface the roads in Abuja are the cows that roam freely and the ones that work in FG offices.

BastardWike:


Has Nigeria ever risen before? If yes, which years please

Resees:
Maybe you guys should try voting people who can actually do all that instead voting because that person is from your village.

RuudVanNisteroy:

I know the Governors in South East and South South and South West are capable of replicating these development in cities in their states. Look at the private estates they build with their loot, they are well planned with the latest amenities.

JaceBlaze:


Very annoying.

RuudVanNisteroy:

The major difference is the sidewalks for pedestrian to walk on, which is absent in most Nigerian cities in the central business districts.

Botswana got indepedence in 1966, so their development cannot be attributed to the whites, but the visionary black leadership they had.

However, I can't say the same for Namibia, they got independence from South Africa in 1990.

banmee:


That's easy. Decades of psychological rape caused the mentality of the average Nigerian to go left instead of taking a right. Now it is too late. Nothing and no one can repair it. Doubt me? Look no further at the comments of Nairalanders on various topics. No sane person should utter the things most of them say.

InvertedHammer:
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Nigeria has no standard in anything. Mediocrity thrives. The greatest architectural wonders in Nigeria are flyovers and overhead pedestrian bridges. Then we have cheerleaders with cheap data who reside mainly in the villages called cities.

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humilitypays:
Op, the problem of Nigeria is not lack of good plan but lack of maintenance and sustainability.


We have good plans but we don't have maintenance culture and we also lack discipline to sustain our good plans and initiatives, which is where corruption comes into play.


Another reason for corruption in Nigeria is too many tribes. As a black nation, Nigeria have too many tribes with different orientation to encourage one vision and one goal.


Each tribe in Nigeria have a different vision of development and wish to outsmart the other which create conflict of interest and hence favoritism in government institutions which leads to hiring of incompetent people in government that end up serving the goals of their tribesmen

Ndipe:
Nigeria rebounded from the civil war that could have annihilated the country from the face of the earth to becoming a utopia back in the 70's and 80's which witnessed a number of migrants from other nations in search of better opportunities.

BastardWike:


Trash this unreasonable excuse. That's a defeatist mentality. Size or population is never an excuse to be underdeveloped. If it were, China, Brazil and India won't be developing so fast in their respective regions that has very poor and underdeveloped countries.

However, if you feel that Nigeria's size or population is hindering its optimized development then why not join IPOB and fight for its balkanization??

History555:



Eko atalantic is for rich folks. To achieve this beauty is not hard. Build good roads with side walks and covered drainage. The side walks can be built on top of the drainage. Plant green grass at the centre if its a dual road. Have functional street and traffic lights. You can even construct hard shoulders for cars to park or bicycle riders. Wash the streets and side work twice a week. These things are not difficult to achieve. If poor Jamaica can achieve it how much more nigeria.

Ades1234:

U guys will just pick pen and write rubbish,
How many cars and human uses those street?
Nigeria seems to be the largest black nation in the world and the numbers of cars in Lagos is even more human in some of those city u posted
Although corruption is killing and bad leader but comparing the most densely and populated nation of our to those tiny country is an insult,
Some of u guys have not travel from ur crave
Stop disgracing Nigeria. OK

tungamaje:
Are we sure Abuja streets are even as beautiful as what I am seeing here? May be those streets were developed by white men