Okiton:


You modafucka you think Edo aren't tired of the mess ur Buhari and APC government brought up on this nation. Every well meaning and intellectual Nigerians are tired and are speaking out.
Can you boast of steady electricity supply in ur area?

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he don reach like that....

guy,seriously....

I thank God for borehole water we are using today, if we were to depend on Nigerian government for water we would have been dead by now, take a example of electricity.
Sometimes these electricity workers are naturally wicked and unkind, most times they deliberately off the power, not as if there's something wrong with electricity lines of transformers, they will deliberately put people in darkness for three days, even a week sef

Okiton:


You modafucka you think Edo aren't tired of the mess ur Buhari and APC government brought up on this nation. Every well meaning and intellectual Nigerians are tired and are speaking out.
Can you boast of steady electricity supply in ur area?

and his because of buhari government, Nigeria didn't have electricity??

there is no country without challenges .........Even the so called other west African countries dat have stable electricity (the expensiveness cannot even make a business to thrive)

imagine having light and you ar afraid to use it because of bills.....(using TV light to eat hahahaha)

There is an adage says, you don't know the value of what you have, until you lose it.

Nigeria is a very large country that need to be partition into regions to bring out her lost glory. Our economy is way better than Ghana, but you won't know because there are too many poor people and wastage by those in charge.

CBR100:



and his because of buhari government, Nigeria didn't have electricity??

there is no country without challenges .........Even the so called other west African countries dat have stable electricity (the expensiveness cannot even make a business to thrive)

imagine having light and you ar afraid to use it because of bills.....(using TV light to eat hahahaha)

lets have the electricity fess, then we talk about the bill

kokorokoman:
i made a post about my current condition in ghana last week and i got a lot of response, big ups to you guys and to those comparing both countries this is what i have to say.
do your findings and discover that war torn countries like somalia, syria and iraq has a better quality of life than nigeria, i was surprised people were comparing nigeria to ghana.

i am surprised people that claimed to have lived in or living in ghana are saying nigeria is better than ghana, though everybody is entitled to their opinion but the truth is i have never seen any area where nigeria is better than ghana.
what an average ghanian enjoys for almost free is a very tall dream for an average millionaire in nigeria.
i mean how can you compare nigeria, a country that has the lowest minimum wage in the world, a country that has the highest number of poor people in the world, a country with the highest number of out of school children in the world, a country with the highest number of homeless people in the world, a country with one of the very lowest life expectancy in the world just surpassing only one or two countries worldwide.

even in west africa nigeria doesnt come close to it's pairs and neighbors in terms of security, power and quality of life.
i have done business and spent at least a month in six africa countries, namely, niger, cameroon, benin republic, togo, ghana and ivory coast.
i spent more than a month in niamey, niger rep and i never slept without electricty, i mean niger republic o.

how would you compare nigeria to ghana a country where an average youth has never seen a generator set all his life, barbers, football viewing centers, welders do not bother owning a generator.

a country where invigilantee system is alien to them, security of lives and property are totally the job of the govt and they are doing well excelently in this regard.
ghana never sleeps, you can decide to stroll at 2 in the morning in ghana either you are in the city or in the village and you will still see people outside without any fear, you can get a cab at any time, even at 3 in the morning.

even with a good and responsive succesive govts, it will take a very long years of concerted efforts for nigeria to attain the level of sanity in ghana.
a country that 85 percent of it's citizen gets steady power and water supply making them the second highest in west africa.
markets scenes in ghana are far more decent in raining season in than how markets looks in dry season in nigeria.

provision of water is the responsibility of govt, there is hardly priavte boreholes by individuals.
the day nigerians depend on govt for water we will all.....

if nigeria states govt eg kaduna state govt can sponsor students on scholarship to a dead country like sudan you can imangine how many nigerian students are here in ghana.
education in nigeria is a child's play compared to what is obtainable here in gh, nigeria spends millions of dollars annually on edaction here in ghana, kids of politicians and our so called multimillionaires are all benefitting from the education system here.
sadly the quality of many nigerian universities cannot be compared to many SHS schools in ghana.
in fact and embarassinly, when oladimeji bankole was the number four citizen of nigeria, as a speaker of the federal house of representatives, his wife was schooling and even gave birth in ghana.

do you want to talk about the influence, power and respect a ghanian passport holder has over his nigerian counterpart worldwide?, as a ghanian passport holder you can visit UAE, singapore, indonesia etc without visa

accra is currently the fastest growing capital city in west africa with lots of foreigners, celebrities and public figures visiting every year.

jay z, wiley, stormzy, wizkid, michael blackson, genevieve nnaji, emmanuel adebayor all have houses in ghana
wizkid spends more time in ghana than in nigeria whenever he is in africa, ice prince lives in ghana.
davido, burna boy tiwa savage etc, ghana is their preferred destination for holidays as i have met burna boy and a host of nigerian celebs in labadi beach.
i met bella shmurda at krokobite beach too.

immedately after the death of bob marley, his wife rita marley relocated to ghana and has been living in ghana for ages till today, she even has a studio in aburi.
gospel preacher and music act, ron kenoly has applied to be a ghanaian citizen and relocating to spend the rest of his life in ghana.

to those comparing and complaining about how expensive things are in ghana, the truth is things are far more expensive in nigeria than in ghana.
the reason you think things are more expensive in ghnana is because of the uselessness of the value of naira.
if the exchange rate of the currency was around even 50 naira to a cedi it woldnt have been this difficult, the simple truth is as far as you are a nigerian and doing calculations between naira and any other country things will always seem high in that country because the value of naira against most africa currency is just shit.

you can travel between between 15 differnt cities without experiencing a single pothole 'not exagerating'

in most states in nigeria apart from lagos, you dont get more than 5 local tv channles on your tv, apart from your state tv channels that governors use as number one propaganda tool and Ait, siverbird and one or two more channels.
in ghana the average number of free channels which many of them are premium is not less than 30 at a go.
it means a poor ghanian can after a day's work, come home on a good road, with good security without fear of being kidnapped,robbed or attacked, meet electricity at home, eat with a fan blowing him and thereafter tune in a television and watch a premium channel like mtvbase for free till whenever he likes without fear of power outage or 'NTA' interupting that entertaining programme to show one campaign rally.
this is what you cannot easily obtain in nigeria even as a millionaire.

around 2014/15 while i was still doing business between benin republic and togo, if i take 50, 000 naira to benin republic i will have over 150,000 cfa in benin rep, then i can buy cloths, shoes for resale in nigeria but today, that same money cannot buy a dozen of rat poison in benin rep anymore because even the cfa now has more value than naira in the black market now.
those of you complaining how things are expensive in ghana, it is like buying a donut in america for a dollar and complaining you have spent over 500 naira on a common donut, the problem is not the american economy neither their currency but our own valueless naira.

on the issue that ghanaians are hostile to nigerians as insinuated by about three monikers, that is not true, i have never seen people as warm and nice as ghanians, mostly their women.
only their men are somehow hostile due to the fact that they see nigerians as competition and the manner nigerians display sometimes.
in fact, ghana has some of the nicest women on earth.
the true is nigerians cannot even take one percent of the nuisance some nigerians are constituting here.
from momo robbery to kidnapping to ritual killing to scamming and all kind of reklessleness exibhited daily by nigerians.

though nigera has great and a lot of potentials with the right leaders, we have the biggest economy in africa but it is useless if you compare the life an average nigerian lives to that of a benenoise, a nigerien, cameroonian etc.
nigeria has a bigger economy than ghana but if you calculate the gdp per capital, ghana beats naija.

living in nigeria is a game, you can't travel from ogun state to lagos without your heart in your hand, how about benin to ekpoma that is even less than an hour drive you can encounter multiple kidnapping nd robbery scenes, meanwhile you can travel at anytime to anywhere with peace of mind in ghana.

since i was born i have never benefitted anything from th nigeiran govt, rather they take the little i manage to get through blood, sweat and tears.
i invested 2 million naira in agriculture in the north central part of nigeria, just few weeks to harvest, herdsmen came to my farm on a saturday and graized till sunday, destroyed everything they met, crossed the river demancating my farm from my neighbor's and was graizing on my neighbor's groundnut famr when me and security came to the farm after being alerted by my manager, the two herdsmen were deatained but got released after an alhaji facilitated their release and 'compenated', yes, i was compensated with 5000 naira for damages of millions of naira.
police took 2k from the moeny and i was left with just 3k, i no get choice, me and my guy just went to the ashawo house in the village, drink palmwine and bush meat with the 3k and went home.
i was later informed by a female officer that the alhaji gave police 5k initially so that they'police' should convince or force me to take five k offer or i go home with nothing, so police got 7k while i got 3k.
just to leave that environment to avoid suicide thoughts, few weeks later i gathered the little i had left and relocated to togo.

nigerians make up about 70 to 80 percent of foreigners herein ghana are nigerians and hunfreds are coming everyday while there are few ghanaians in nigeria.
more than half of the prostitute here are nigerian girls, do you ever wonder why girls from other african countries dont come to do prostitution in nigeria?
because if a ghanian prostitute gets paid a hundred thousand naira if she converts it to cedis it will be just chop money.

an average nigerian millionaire can live comfortably in a remote ghanian village, because he will be assured of security, 24 hours electricity, good road network to the city, you can go to night club in the city and drive back to the village at 3 in the morning without fear.
but it will be a hellculain task for just an average ghanian civil servant sef to settle down in nigerian city because of lack of electricity, no road, no security, no peace of mind, no tv channels to watch even if you manage to give yourself electricity without DSTV.

though the current akuffo addo govt is calamitous but still better than all the govts nigeria has ever elected since 1999 'i have facts incase you want to argue with me on this'
late last year, the ghanian cedi became the worse performing currency against the dollar but exactly a month later the cedi became the best performing currency against the dollar, at least that is a responsive govt unlike what we have in nigeria.

















GHANA NIGERIA
Unemployment rate: 3.9 % 5.9 %
Inflation rate: 9.97 % 16.95 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)37.34 % 41.83 %

Commercial taxes and contributions: 55.40 % 34.80 %
Average income: 2,280 US$ 2,080 US$
Corruption index: 57 (bad) 76 (very bad)

ghana nigeria
Political stability: 48 23
Civil rights: 49 23
Health: 25 12
Climate: 56 53
Cost of Living: 42 57
Popularity: 38 38
Population: 32,833,000 213,401,000
Inhabitants/km²: 137.6 231.0
Life expectancy males: 62 years 52 years
Life expectancy females: 66 years 53 years
Average age: 21.4 years 18.6 years
Birth rate: 28.04 ‰ 37.47 ‰
Death rate: 7.45 ‰ 13.00 ‰
Migrationrate: -0.16 ‰ -0.21 ‰

I didn't bother to read the Novel u wrote, no be your papa head u go stress. If at all u want to compare pls compare Nigeria with south Africa or Egypt. Bc the fact still remains that as far as am concerned these are the only three countries in Africa. Shalom

Prettygirl200:
I didn't bother to read the Novel u wrote, no be your papa head u go stress. If at all u want to compare pls compare Nigeria with south Africa or Egypt. Bc the fact still remains that as far as am concerned these are the only three countries in Africa. Shalom

i stopped readin too....

justtoodark:


stingy igbos and bills....
we saw that video where the igbo woman was cryin that her buildin is been demolished....

poorest tribe with the biggest mouth....

why is it that any that comes out to say what is wrong with Nigeria is termed Igbo?

Okiton:
why is it that any that comes out to say what is wrong with Nigeria is termed Igbo?

because na only igbos try to always convince people about their views....

a edo guy wouldnt bother....

Okiton:
why is it that any that comes out to say what is wrong with Nigeria is termed Igbo?

why is it important to you what i think about igbos when you are edo....??

a edo wouldnt bother to try to defend igbos....

Okiton:
you this idiot, whenever someone notice what is wrong in Nigeria you called him Igbo.
You are just a mad man

you get time dey reply the idiota. Their hatred for the Igbos will be their downfall like Haman against the Israelites in the bible.

justtoodark:


why is it important to you what i think about igbos when you are edo....??

a edo wouldnt bother to try to defend igbos....

why?

justtoodark:


i stopped readin too....

ghana no be country no dey compare Nigeria nd Ghana, simple?

All i want to say is that ghana inflation rate is more than 9% and it is higher than that of nigeria, please do your research very well.

CBR100:
with all those gibberish you mention
Ghana economy is not even up to $70billion dollar ....
while dat of Lagos alone is over $150b
dat means if southwest is a country ......na for sky Ghana go dey look am

nah until I travel abroad b4 I realize having stable light does not really mean much ......unless you have sth doing with it Lyk business

Abeg make you dey lie small small. Who told you that Lagos GDP is $150b?

@OP Do you know who supplies Ghana gas to sustain her economy and generate steady electricity?.. NIGERIA!

Ghana is still owing billions in debt for gas supplied to them by Nigeria and noone is talking about that. It's when Nigeria cuts off gas supply to Ghana that your likes will start ranting up and down on Social Media of how wicked Nigerians are.

I blame past PDP governments for the poor electricity situation in the country cos they had money in billions as at then budgeted to fix the power sector but some few individuals siphoned ithe money into their pockets and those of their relatives.

If not for corruption,Ghana wouldn't even be mentioned as a country where Nigeria is. Nigeria is like 36 x bigger than Ghana (note I didn't add FCT) in terms of size, so you can't compare. The gap wide.

I understand the OP message; Nigeria score very low on basics amenities and that's one of our biggest problems.

Basics amenities like good water, Road, electricity, seems like a rocket science for Nigerian government to provide to it's citizens. And these things are considerably available in some other smaller and even poorer African countries.

Most nigerians don't benefit anything from the government and from this thread I can see that most nigerians are very okay with the situation.

kokorokoman:
please point anything i said that is wrong there.
brother, these is not my first time in ghana, while i was in togo i was very frequent in ghana, i used to supply stuffs at ashamai market.
i do not hate nigeria but i am only stating facts and my experience.
the only regret i have is not coming earlier enough to invest in ghana or togo.
see bro, i have done shoe business between five african countries and i know what i am saying.
cows ate up my 2 millionaire naira investment within hours in nigeria bro, that is impossible in this same sudan you are taunting.

The man just dey show his ignorance for dis forum. Firstly, he said that he from edo state and invested 2m in his farm in one of states in north central. That alone is a lie.

This is super story

OVB123:
The man just dey show his ignorance for dis forum. Firstly, he said that he from edo state and invested 2m in his farm in one of states in north central. That alone is a lie.

How is it a lie.

Must you be from the North to own a farm in the North.

I know people that own farms in regions where they aren't from.
It's until the day someone you know is affected by herdsmen that's when you'll begin to understand the country we are in.

justtoodark:
soo,this long epistle because of electricity....
you are igbo....

If you had lived outside Nigeria even in those smaller African countries then would you understand what the OP was trying to say. So you won't understand him

kokorokoman:
you still dont get it, despite the huge economy, what an average ghanaian cvil servant enjoys for free a nigerian millionaire cannot get it even with millions in nigeria.
you cannot see a fuel tanker on the road in abidjan, all the fuel tankers have a dedicated train line.
even benin republic have a dedicate lanes for motorcycles in most of their major roads.
travel and see, nigeria is a jungle

I don't believe the Ghanian economy is doing better than Nigeria, in the same vain Ghana is not better managed than nigeria. They are pactically in the same category. The difference is in the scale and size. Buy scale and size, i mean population, geographical size and the number of tribes and ethnic groupings.
From the statistics you presented, these three are the most critical factors;
Population: 32,833,000 213,401,000
Inhabitants/km²: 137.6 231.0
Birth rate: 28.04 ‰ 37.47 ‰

The population of nigeria is 8 times that of Ghana, the population density is about two times and the landmass is about three and a half times. To make matters worse, the birth rate is unsustainably high.

Now, one factor that affects Nigerian development and progress more than Ghana is religion. Nigeria's extreme religiosity which started in the late 70s/early 80s has had a destructive impact on the value system and morals of the society. And thus Nigerians are unable to distinguish rights from wrongs. Nigerian religiosity focuses on the self - self prosperity, blessings and interests, instead of pursuing societal progress and development. That's why Nigerian has the highest number of religious buildings in the world but the most criminal minded, wicked and unsympathetic people. There are crimes that only happens in Nigeria - like using women and children for money making rituals.

Those things you mentioned like poor infrastructure, poor security and the systemic collapse are all human problems and not necessarily government. Why, because Nigerians choose to be dishonest in the dealings with others. Those charged with responsibilities are only interested in stealing the money. If you like change the system and the personalities 10 times, the result would be the same.
In a country where Professor Nnenna Oti is celebrated for just doing her job, then you realise little is expected from an average Nigerian.

then go and stay in Ghana and never come back

tungamaje:

If you had lived outside Nigeria even in those smaller African countries then would you understand what the OP was trying to say. So you won't understand him

There are smaller cities in Nigeria you can enjoy yourself. Warri, akure etc

justtoodark:
soo,this long epistle because of electricity....
you are igbo....

you are one of the major problem Nigeria is facing. Someone is making a comparison and you're there saying he is Igbo. Everything is about tribe to you. You're today's biggest fool. Idiot

Memberclub:

There are smaller cities in Nigeria you can enjoy yourself. Warri, akure etc

Thats one thing they fail to take into consideration when comparing Nigeria to other countries. Nigeria is one of the most urbanised countries in Africa if not the whole world. Can you count the number of urban cities or towns in Nigeria that requires urban infrastructures. With our meagre resources, even without the endemic corruption, the government can't cope.
We need to be far more productive than we currently are and power has to somehow be devolved from the federal, states to then to the local governments.

I r

CBR100:
with all those gibberish you mention
Ghana economy is not even up to $70billion dollar ....
while dat of Lagos alone is over $150b
dat means if southwest is a country ......na for sky Ghana go dey look am

nah until I travel abroad b4 I realize having stable light does not really mean much ......unless you have sth doing with it Lyk business

really stable light doesn't mean anything ?...the sound of generator? The steady buying of fuel/diesel exposing your family to hazards. Omo living standard like the op mentioned Ghana is way better.