In the spirit of this retarded thread I have decided to add some pictures. Yes, Lagos is a disaster and deserves to be wiped off the face of the earth. *rolleyes*

Lagos - The Ugly City.



Ugly Ugly Ugly















Disgusting Lagos!










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, etc

Disgusting!

@mariory
Hope you meant that as a joke!Hehehehe
Anyway Nigeria is a fantastic country but because of a long dictatorial rule passed on from its past "leaders" it is seen much more as a faillin state.
Anyway guys it still doesnt change the facts that beauty is from within its people(Nigerian) not without.
Finally when the majority of its people are suffering, individuals benefit thus defeating the long held notion that the nation belongs to its people not to certain individuals owning the country while others suffer.

Recently i visited Nigeria and i looked everywhere for basic utilities that were all missing such as airtime. In my view, the decline was largely due to Disastrous sham in the name as elections — which made it difficult for the companies to sell airtime during the few months when Nigerians were destroying their motherland.

For those who were not around at the time, it was easier for one to get an machete wound in the head or a bullet in the belly than to lay hands on a scratch card. And those who did, usually spent much of the airtime to send hate messages and spread all manner of rumours.

Thankfully, the peculiar situation did not last too long and citizens either ran out of the fighting spirit or decided to tolerate each other again after their respective leaders forged the Peace and formed the a "Government" months later.
Well, after "peace" was restored, scratch cards became available again, but due to drought in the months that followed, many a subscriber often had to make the hard choice between buying airtime or food, whose cost was rising by the day to fund the growing appetite of the government their leaders had crafted at machete-point

Kenyanstar:

Recently i visited Nigeria and i looked everywhere for basic utilities that were all missing such as airtime. In my view, the decline was largely due to Disastrous sham in the name as elections — which made it difficult for the companies to sell airtime during the few months when Nigerians were destroying their motherland.

For those who were not around at the time, it was easier for one to get an machete wound in the head or a bullet in the belly than to lay hands on a scratch card. And those who did, usually spent much of the airtime to send hate messages and spread all manner of rumours.

Thankfully, the peculiar situation did not last too long and citizens either ran out of the fighting spirit or decided to tolerate each other again after their respective leaders forged the Peace and formed the a "Government" months later.
Well, after "peace" was restored, scratch cards became available again, but due to drought in the months that followed, many a subscriber often had to make the hard choice between buying airtime or food, whose cost was rising by the day to fund the growing appetite of the government their leaders had crafted at machete-point

where was i when this was happening, maybe I've not been well informed

@kenyanstar could you please state  precisely where and when this took place

@Honeric, its so funny that this kenyanstar guy thinks we dont already have his number from day one. Lol.

The heading of this thread alone is what got him salivating to enter, lol.

@londoner and others
[center]Ten Most Common lies nigerians believe to escape reality[/center]

ALL NIGERIAN SHOUL READ THIS!


OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, NIGERIANS seem to have developed an almost pathological ability to lie to themselves. Today, everywhere you turn, somebody is buck-passing. Nobody wants to take responsibility any more. Psychologists probably explain it best as a desperate mechanism to cope with the harsh realities of life, but this doesn’t make it less bizarre and surreal. Doubt me? Consider these 10 common lies.

One, that the government has to help us with our personal problems. How many times have you seen on TV a Hawkers whose stalls has been demolished, or somebody who, somehow, has sired 16 children saying, “I am begging for goverment intervention…”?

Fact is, there is no animal known as government that has bottomless pockets to solve people’s individual problems. Government is there to formulate policy and construct basic infrastructure with tax money. Anyone who wants to benefit from your tax money is a parasite.

THE SECOND LIE IS THAT Nigeria IS a rich country whose wealth is looted by its leaders. Ha ha ha! Nigeria is actually extremely poor. With nearly 130 million people, according to the CIA’s factbook, the country has a Gross National Product of just $131 billion. Contrast that to Singapore, with a population of about 4.7 million and a GDP of $155 billion. Nigerians should be thinking of baking a bigger cake, not how to share crumbs!

The third lie? That Nigerians are decent, hardworking people, but their leaders are bad. Go tell it to the birds. People get the leaders they deserve. And on that hard-working bit, it is only true for a very small part of the population, mostly women.

If you go to the rural areas, you will find most shopping centres clogged with .drunk men as early as 9 am. Without women, this country would be as poor as Sierra Leone! Lie number four is that a new Constitution will solve all your problems. Fat chance. We have laws against murder and arson, but did that stop the atrocities of early 2008 and the mayhem wreaked by Emancipation of the Niger Delta Militia?

Fact is, a Constitution is as good as its implementation, otherwise it is just a piece of paper with ink stains. Countries like Britain don’t even have a written one. You need to rediscover your moral direction more than you need a Constitution. Lie number five is that foreigners, especially diplomats like US Ambassadors love us very much.

Let’s be blunt here. Diplomats are sent there by their governments to represent their own interests. They don’t love Nigeria any more than they love Bhutan or Haiti. This to them is just a work-station. Nobody loves Nigeria as Kenyans do, or should. This is your home, and only you can change it for the better. Start working on it.

The sixth lie is that Nigerians are a Godly, peace-loving people. OK, maybe we go to churches and mosques, but that doesn’t make you more God-fearing than the Russians or the Chinese. Which God-loving people wake up one day and start soiling each other with machetes?

The seventh lie? That to jumpstart Nigeria you need free education, free healthcare…. Let’s all get this clear: There’s nothing like a free lunch. When you are a poor country with no infrastructure and you spend the little you have on NGO-driven freebies, you’ll remain just that — poor. Free things should only be for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, such as the old and disabled.

Lie number eight — that it is poverty that leads to crime and acts of stupidity — has become popular of late. People burn while looting a fuel truck, or steal from the corpses of road accident victims and all you hear is the “poverty” excuse.

NOW, IF POVERTY WAS THE ROOT OF all evil, how come there are some really good people like national football players from places like Lagos slums? Lie number nine? That a Nigerian ‘Obama’ will swoop down to save this country and lead us to everlasting prosperity.

The messianic narrative may make you sleep better, but it won’t happen. Look at China, the greatest economic miracle on earth. It has taken the sacrifice of an entire generation to pull millions out of poverty. One ‘Obama’ cannot do the job alone. Lie number ten. That your ethnic community is more hardworking, more honest than the others. If that were so, how come you — as a person and as a community — are still as poor as you are?

@Kenyanstar I'll pass on your "education" thanx, I dont need it, lol

@londoner

At last! Its good that you are now thinking outside the box, for once that is.
I am now fully enlightened on your paranoia

@kenyanstar, you are amusing to say the least, I may  start "educating" you soon.

You know, on places like Kibera etc, and things like the Mungiki or glue sniffers etc.

This sudden desire to "educate" is really catching on Kenyanstar, lol

There is one saying you remind me of, something about glass houses and stones, lol

@KENYASTAR,

SOMETIMES I EXPECT U TO STOP POSTING TO CASTIGATE NAIJA because THE POVERTY RATE IN UR KENYA IS ALARMING

NAIJA IS FAR BETTER THAN UR AILING STATE. IT IS NOT UR FAULT "ERU KAN NI MU NI BU IGBA ERU" IT IS ONE SLAVE THAT ALLOW INSULT ON OTHER SLAVE. PLS, BE GUIDED

@jimmysho, its not about "who is better", at the end of the day it is all relative, so such conversation is futile. Dont even descend to Kenyanstars level.

This is for Kenyanstar, anything you can make out of this, please do,

Economy Nigeria Top of Page
Economy - overview:
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Oil-rich Nigeria, long hobbled by political instability, corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and poor macroeconomic management, has undertaken several reforms over the past decade. Nigeria's former military rulers failed to diversify the economy away from its overdependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 95% of foreign exchange earnings and about 80% of budgetary revenues. Following the signing of an IMF stand-by agreement in August 2000, Nigeria received a debt-restructuring deal from the Paris Club and a $1 billion credit from the IMF, both contingent on economic reforms. Nigeria pulled out of its IMF program in April 2002, after failing to meet spending and exchange rate targets, making it ineligible for additional debt forgiveness from the Paris Club. Since 2008 the government has begun showing the political will to implement the market-oriented reforms urged by the IMF, such as to modernize the banking system, to curb inflation by blocking excessive wage demands, and to resolve regional disputes over the distribution of earnings from the oil industry. In 2003, the government began deregulating fuel prices, announced the privatization of the country's four oil refineries, and instituted the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy, a domestically designed and run program modeled on the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility for fiscal and monetary management. In November 2005, Abuja won Paris Club approval for a debt-relief deal that eliminated $18 billion of debt in exchange for $12 billion in payments - a total package worth $30 billion of Nigeria's total $37 billion external debt. The deal requires Nigeria to be subject to stringent IMF reviews. Based largely on increased oil exports and high global crude prices, GDP rose strongly in 2007 and 2008. President YAR'ADUA has pledged to continue the economic reforms of his predecessor with emphasis on infrastructure improvements. Infrastructure is the main impediment to growth. The government is working toward developing stronger public-private partnerships for electricity and roads.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$338.1 billion (2008 est.)
$318.7 billion (2007)
$299.5 billion (2006)
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$220.3 billion (2008 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
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6.1% (2008 est.)
6.4% (2007 est.)
6.2% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$2,300 (2008 est.)
$2,200 (2007 est.)
$2,100 (2006 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 18%
industry: 50.9%
services: 31.1% (2008 est.)
Labor force:
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51.04 million (2008 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 70%
industry: 10%
services: 20% (1999 est.)
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NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 1.9%
highest 10%: 33.2% (2003)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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43.7 (2003)
Investment (gross fixed):
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21.4% of GDP (2008 est.)
Budget:
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revenues: $29.49 billion
expenditures: $30.61 billion (2008 est.)
Public debt:
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12.2% of GDP (2008 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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10.6% (2008 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
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9.5% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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16.94% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
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$21.72 billion (31 December 2007)
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$19.07 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
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$16.15 billion (31 December 2007)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$86.35 billion (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
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crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; palm oil, peanuts, cotton, rubber, wood; hides and skins, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel, small commercial ship construction and repair
Industrial production growth rate:
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2.8% (2008 est.)
Electricity - production:
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22.11 billion kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
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15.85 billion kWh (2006 est.)
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0 kWh (2007 est.)
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0 kWh (2007 est.)
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2.352 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
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312,000 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
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2.473 million bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
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154,300 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
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36.22 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas - production:
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34.1 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
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12.9 billion cu m (2007 est.)
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21.2 billion cu m (2007 est.)
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0 cu m (2007 est.)
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5.21 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
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$7.722 billion (2008 est.)
Exports:
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$83.09 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
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petroleum and petroleum products 95%, cocoa, rubber
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US 51.6%, Brazil 8.9%, Spain 7.7% (2007)
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$46.36 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
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machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals
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$72.04 billion (31 December 2008 est.)
Debt - external:
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$9.132 billion (31 December 2008 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$35.75 billion (2008 est.)
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$12.83 billion (2008 est.)
Exchange rates:
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nairas (NGN) per US dollar - 117.8 (2008 est.), 127.46 (2007), 127.38 (2006), 132.59 (2005), 132.89 (2004)
Communications Nigeria Top of Page
Telephones - main lines in use:
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1.58 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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40.395 million (2007)
Telephone system:
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general assessment: further expansion and modernization of the fixed-line telephone network is needed
domestic: the addition of a second fixed-line provider in 2002 resulted in faster growth but subscribership remains only about 1 per 100 persons; wireless telephony has grown rapidly, in part responding to the shortcomings of the fixed-line network; multiple service providers operate nationally; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 30 per 100 persons in 2007
international: country code - 234; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 83, FM 36, shortwave 11 (2001)
Television broadcast stations:
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3 (the government controls 2 of the broadcasting stations and 15 repeater stations) (2001)
Internet country code:
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.ng
Internet hosts:
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1,048 (2008)
Internet users:
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10 million (2007)
Transportation Nigeria Top of Page
Airports:
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60 (2008)
Airports - with paved runways:
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total: 38
over 3,047 m: 6
2,438 to 3,047 m: 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 11
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 2 (2008)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
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total: 22
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 7 (2008)
Heliports:
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2 (2007)
Pipelines:
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condensate 21 km; gas 2,560 km; liquid petroleum gas 97 km; oil 3,396 km; refined products 4,090 km (2008)
Railways:
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total: 3,505 km
narrow gauge: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge (2006)
Roadways:
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total: 193,200 km
paved: 28,980 km
unpaved: 164,220 km (2004)
Waterways:
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8,600 km (Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks) (2008)
Merchant marine:
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total: 68
by type: cargo 4, chemical tanker 12, combination ore/oil 1, liquefied gas 2, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 46, specialized tanker 2
foreign-owned: 3 (Japan 1, South Africa 1, Spain 1)
registered in other countries: 34 (Bahamas 2, Bermuda 11, Cook Islands 1, Georgia 1, Italy 1, Liberia 2, Panama 10, Poland 1, Seychelles 1, Sierra Leone 1, unknown 3) (2008)
Ports and terminals:
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Bonny Inshore Terminal, Calabar, Lagos



PLEASE NOTE, they are yet to come back for 2009 to recheck their FACTS

And yet you are still poor!
It is unfortunate that you still dont get it.Let me be frank
Nigeria is like the bibilical 3 servants who were given money to invest by thier master. After a period the Master came back and demanded his money back, The first servant(Kenya) despite all odds had managed to triple the money he had earned to do business and feed his family, and the Master was happy and let him have it all. The second servant(Ghana) despite everything had doubled it by doing business and feed his family, and similarly the master was proud and let him have it all. But the third servant(Nigeria) dug a hole and buried the money to await the masters return and left his family starve. On noticing this his master was so furious he threw and caste him out of his household. The moral of the story,

Despite Nigeria being well endowed with God(Master), you as their servants elected leaders who dug a hole in their pockets instead of doing business and feeding your people.Despite your oil and other resources you havent done much where by the country is riddled with crime,poverty,corruption, tribalism, racism, secterianism etc. Of the ones i have written tell me which isnt true. unlike,

Ghana being smaller than Nigeria without much of resources is better off than Nigeria and has managed to build a strong Economy nevertheless and recently held a democratic elections that was upheld by the united nations,

Kenya on the other Hand, Well!!!!, It has used its beauty,culture and diversity to build the strongest economy in East and central Africa. Our currency the shilling is the strongest in the East african countries,

I hope you now get it

M

Nigeria's POLICE ARE LARGELY held in disrepute, implicated in horrific abuses, and oriented towards the protection of a state and a regime that are no longer legitimate. The rule of law, observance of human rights, and democratic processes mean absolutely nothing to them.

Democratic governance requires democratic policing. And, for policing to be legitimate, it must help create an environment free from fear and conducive to the realisation of a people’s human rights.

Notwithstanding that, successive post-independent Kenyan governments have failed in their primary duty to provide the public with honest, efficient, and effective policing that ensures the rule of law.

Taking into consideration that democracy and development of any society can only thrive where public safety and security are guaranteed, it has become imperative to engage the police institution in reform programmes and initiatives that would help improve their service delivery and accountability to the public.

@ kenyanstar, you have much still to sort out in Kenya, when you have done that maybe you can come back here to "preach" to,  oh sorry "educate" us.

We are aware of the shortcomings in our country, you on the other hand is simply in denial about yours.

With all the "strength" of your shilling you have the largest slums, not only in Africa, but in the whole world.

What does your tourism do for the over 250,000 homeless children in your country? 60,000 of them in Nairobi alone. That is not even counting the adults.

How does it help the thousands of children addicted to glue, or the women who sell the glue to them (themselves addicts) ?

Have you heard of the Mungiki?

Before you come here to lecture anyone about how to run a country, you need to be looking closer to home. At the end of the day NO african country today can claim to be first world, we are all third world countries, kenya included, not one of us has our act together.

While the above still applies to kenya, you have no business lecturing any other country.

@Kenyanstar, i would have said you should say no more because nobody made you a Judge. Even if you tell us that USA is far better than us, we will have something to say, like wise you when i say any other nation is better than you. That makes you a true citizen of your country. You will never allow another person bad mouth you even when he tells you that there are terrible slums country.

But you guys have been educating some of us with stories so you can continue your cold war   but be factual. This tread made me do a little research on some African Nations, and sure i did found out interesting things.

I still have a question you have not answered. i was asking where and when this  happened

Kenyanstar:

Recently i visited Nigeria and i looked everywhere for basic utilities that were all missing such as airtime. In my view, the decline was largely due to Disastrous sham in the name as elections — which made it difficult for the companies to sell airtime during the few months when Nigerians were destroying their motherland.

For those who were not around at the time, it was easier for one to get an machete wound in the head or a bullet in the belly than to lay hands on a scratch card. And those who did, usually spent much of the airtime to send hate messages and spread all manner of rumours.

Thankfully, the peculiar situation did not last too long and citizens either ran out of the fighting spirit or decided to tolerate each other again after their respective leaders forged the Peace and formed the a "Government" months later.
Well, after "peace" was restored, scratch cards became available again, but due to drought in the months that followed, many a subscriber often had to make the hard choice between buying airtime or food, whose cost was rising by the day to fund the growing appetite of the government their leaders had crafted at machete-point

I want to get he full story.

@ Kenyanstar, while you keep presenting a incomplete image of Kenya as against other Africa countries (namely Nigeria), you do your fellow countrymen a disservice,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4OyqoiF7Ag&feature=related


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_cuzYoCuw&feature=fvsr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0-oz2LaV2w

We Nigerians are well aware of the state of our nation, but unluckily for you, some of us are also aware of what is going on in Kenya. You are like the pot calling the kettle black, lol

lmao

hahhha

kenya has been murder!!!! thats is that

live in nl

I am just tired with this kenyanstar, by the way, why do we have alot of bonny looking Kenyans all over the world? no offense but i just need to know why, are they always on diet program or what

the worst is their women (Too bonny for my liking )


once again, no offense, just an observation.

londoner:

@ Kenyanstar, while you keep presenting a incomplete image of Kenya as against other Africa countries (namely Nigeria), you do your fellow countrymen a disservice,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4OyqoiF7Ag&feature=related


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_cuzYoCuw&feature=fvsr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0-oz2LaV2w

We Nigerians are well aware of the state of our nation, but unluckily for you, some of us are also aware of what is going on in Kenya. You are like the pot calling the kettle black, lol

LOL
@ Londoner, kudos, thats what am talking about -- facts not rumors.
He will keep quite a bit

The other day, A Ghanain friend and I were taking stock of the changes Nigeria has undergone for the last three decades or so. Is it true they have a "wider democratic space" as argued by some, but are slowly heading down the self-destruct path, or are ‘wasting’ their once prosperous and beautiful country and might end up with just an empty shell.

Once this is done, it will be almost impossible to get back what they once had.

For starters, all the environmental degradation going on is enough reason to worry. Due to the depleted forest cover, now reduced to 1.7 per cent of the country, rainfall and drought patterns have become erratic. Rivers are drying up and their last beacon of hope is under serious threat.

While countries in the East Africa make every effort to conserve any green vegetation they have, They are busy destroying theirs, and soon they might be staring at a desert, with the resultant repercussions. Again, look at all the congestion and unplanned structures in urban areas. Look at the volumes of pollution they push into rivers, lakes and seas.

Other than the environment, I cannot regurgitate what we already know regarding their public institutions. The police force has, once again, claimed its unrivaled position as the most unfriendly institution. When those charged with protecting people’s lives and property turn into aggressors, it is no wonder that they have so much anger and lawlessness.

Corruption king pins are ruling the country. There is everything wrong with their country.

They have since discovered that education is not the problem. Nigerians are some of the most educated and informed people in the world. But due to their desire to get rich quick without working hard for something, they take shortcuts irrespective of the many people we hurt in the process. It is only in Naija where you could be a pauper today and a millionaire tomorrow.

Sudden Miracles

The beauty is that you do not owe anybody an explanation as to how you acquired this sudden wealth. Talk of miracles.

But as the rich get richer, the masses continue to suffer for the crime of not having enough. It is an obscene imbalance. They lack self-discipline and want everything in excess. They have slid so far back that even US President Barack Obama — ther ‘adopted son’ — has become careless with their affections. He is now embarrassed to be associated with the dreams of his father’s continent. For you do not have or share any sincere dreams.

We could dismiss the United States’ self-appointed Big Brother role, but in the end we shall be the losers. We are heavily dependent on the West for trade. Now Ghana is slowly elbowing them aside to find favour with the super power.

Following the strengthening of diplomatic relations between the two countries, our neighbour stands to benefit in health, education and agriculture. Heck, it is likely to even usurp our ‘birthright’ role of helping resolve conflicts in the region.

Matters are not helped by Ghanas President good looks and infectious smile. Who can resist his charm?

They cannot lie to themselves: image is everything. They need to redeem their image and reclaim the country before it is too late. Nigerians need a solid law that will create self-discipline in every aspect of our lives, including respect for the environment.

You only talk about things you are envy of either negatively or positively

mr man, when you are through, let me know.


All this, we know before, so next?

The Facts on Kibera and Mungiki

Kenya being a great country as such as always stated has been home to Kenyans and alot of our neighbours scouring for a better future in this land of oppotunities.
To them Kenya is what U.S is to Nigerians. You should also note that due to the stability in our country compared to our neighbours who have been involved in civil wars i.e Somalia(Ouster if Siad Barre),Uganda(LRA rebels),Sudan(SPLA and Ganja Weed),Ethiopia(Oromo Liberation Movement),DR. Congo(Ouster of Mobutu sseko), Nigeria(During Abachas dictatorial rule),Central African Republic(CAR Rebels),Rwanda(1994 Genocide) etc. All this countries people fortunate enough have escaped to Kenya to Africas beacon Kenya and set camp in kenya due to its relative assuarance of calm. We also have the biggest UN(united nations) headquarters in Africa and its affiliate UNHRC offices(united nations human refugees center) based in Nairobi. Due to its proximity to Kibera settlement which is settled by the sudanese cousins the Nubians the refugees refused to be repatriated to Kakuma refuge camp in North Eastern province Kenya and settled in Kibera where they set up slums and shanties. There are a total 1 million refugees either counted or unaccounted for.

The Mungiki are a youth group who have a political party(Kenya youth alliance) which was involved in a recent demands of representation in parliament but was not enable to participate in the elections due to being a minority in its region. This made them demonstrate in the streets but were contained.
I hope this answers all your curiosity on this Great Land of opportunities KENYA

There are beautiful places in lagos as well, which is what we should focus on.
This is what rebranding Nigeria is about. We need to focus on the positives and not the negatives

@ntertainment
I think you are more of a level thinking Nigerian than understands the value of pride of your country.
By first accepting that you have some problems is good enough though you should also include when posting examples of the daily landmark changes you see i.e politically,socially and economilcally.
Big up

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hmmm thought the man has be murdered

@kenyanstar

do you think Nigerians don't know we have problems? so you want to lecture us on that

honeric01:

I am just tired with this kenyanstar,  by the way, why do we have alot of bonny looking Kenyans all over the world? no offense but i just need to know why, are they always on diet program or what

the worst is their women (Too bonny for my liking )

once again, no offense, just an observation.

LMAO. Oh! I think you should come to Kenya. . . not all Kenyan women are bony-looking. Lol Lol. You must be having a mental picture of the Kenyan marathon runners. Now those ones [b]are [/b]bony. . . . 

Good Girl:

LMAO. Oh! I think you should come to Kenya. . . not all Kenyan women are bony-looking. Lol Lol. You must be having a mental picture of the Kenyan marathon runners. Now those ones [b]are [/b]bony. . . . 

Eh heen, Is that true? so it's just the minority that are bonny-looking  must i come to Kenya before i see not bonny ones maybe the media just loves showing only the bonny ones   by the way, ain't you one of them or you are not on "diet program"

honeric01:


Eh heen, Is that true? so it's just the minority that are bonny-looking  must i come to Kenya before i see not bonny ones maybe the media just loves showing only the bonny ones   by the way, ain't you one of them or you are not on "diet program"

Yes am Kenyan and no am not on any diet program. LOL.  . I have never had a reason to be on diet even during my chubby teenage years. . . . Anyway, that aside, Kenya has diverse groups of individuals. It would be a bit difficult to classify them wholesomely. Some individuals, by virtue of their ethnic origins tend to be mostly skinny, and some tend to be big-boned. So, I still insist that the ones you see in the media are the marathon runners. . I think you watch too much Olympics and Commonwealth games!

By the way, aren't we going off-topic?

The decision to rebrand the image of Nigeria under the slogan "Good People Good Nation" was recently made public by the country's minister of information Professor Dora Akunyili.

The aim is to make Nigeria and Nigerians look better in the eyes of the rest of the world.

That was the most laughable and ridiculous thing Nigeria can even pull off

However, many believe slogans and colour combinations will have little effect on the image of a country with a government known for stealing common wealth, securing electoral victories through foul means and killing perceived opposition.

Since the arrival of the internet Nigeria has become even more famous for its army of online scammers, known as 419 fraud, offering quick riches in exchange for the banking details of those it target.

The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined.

It was begun by unemployed university students who scammed business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector.

The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code that deals with obtaining property by false pretences.

However, it has since widened and has been copied across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe as the spectre of identity theft has grown.

Critics of the rebrand argue that Nigeria must address key challenges like poverty, ignorance and disease to improve its image and that any rebranding exercise that does not address these challenges misses the point.

The Information Minister claims the rebrand will not be wasteful arguing that it will succeed this time because the project will be "home-grown" with the support of the Nigerian people.

This must be another scam, or is it?