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ikeyman00 (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #224 on: April 29, 2009, 06:28 AM »

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i think there is difference from some one that reside in ghana to one that paste pocket of pics from his base oversea!!

i always say there are nigeria esply yorubas and igbos that will tell u they are nigerians but brought up in ghana, they should never be trusted!!

i think there is one here

blackspade (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #225 on: April 29, 2009, 10:01 AM »

Quote from: ikeyman00 on April 29, 2009, 06:28 AM
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i think there is difference from some one that reside in ghana to one that paste pocket of pics from his base oversea!!
LOL, are you suggesting that just because you hear one account from one person it's automatically true? If so then boy are you daft. . . .

. . . . .as I said before, the pictures I posted weren't intended to draw a comparison between Nigeria and Ghana, they were posted for those people who say they have never seen Ghana (I think you were one of them).

Quote from: ikeyman00 on April 29, 2009, 06:28 AM
i always say there are nigeria esply yorubas and igbos that will tell u they are nigerians but brought up in ghana, they should never be trusted!!

i think there is one here
Sometimes it's kind of difficult to understand what you're trying to say in your posts. . . . .

. . . . .this is one of those times.
Siena (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #226 on: April 29, 2009, 10:06 AM »

Nigeria has one thing to learn - acceptance.

Untill we accept Nigeria is a failed nation, we'll never improve, always in denial.
It's like an alcoholic saying they don't have a drink problem - untill they accept they do, all the best medical care in the world won't cure them, they first have to accept they're addicts!

We also need to change our culture of heaping verbal abuse on anyone that shares a different opinion to ours, or those that point out ills in Nigeria that even the least intelligent of people could spot.

We can't keep on justifying Nigeria's failures on size of the country, different ethnic groups, religions etc. These factors are here to stay - we can't make Nigeria smaller, neither can we cut down on the number of ethnic groups, they're here to stay, so we need to make the best of things! And stop using things that are inherent to Nigeria, and can't be changed, as an excuse!

Going through replies on here, it's full of verbal abuse. Aren't we intelligent enough to get our points across without resorting to insults?
ikeyman00 (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #227 on: April 29, 2009, 10:22 AM »

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Sometimes it's kind of difficult to understand what you're trying to say in your posts. . . . .

blackspade

i think emm until u desist from wearin dark spade at nite then u will be in the position of assimilating good grammar!! its not rocket science for u to figure out that u need night vision lens!

U cannot tell an adult how to use a spoon
londoner
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #228 on: April 29, 2009, 11:03 AM »

@ Blackspade, There is a difference between an excuse and an actual reason. When you are going to compare two countries and say why cant one be like another, you should be prepared for it to go under closer scrutiny. It was  you who sited religious tension and tribal unrest in the first place, noone else. Its not enough to say something is relevant only when you want to use it as evidence of your view, then dismiss it as irrelevant when it is questioned further.


To be honest I hear some Ghanaians complaining of some of the same things that Nigerian complain about in Nigeria.
I think most people dont actually know some of the things that are actually going on in ghana apart from the good. How can these people then give a truely balanced analysis I wonder.


kabna
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #229 on: April 29, 2009, 01:56 PM »

eh here we go again wiv a ghana and nigeria comparisms.

well nigerians or perharps most nigerians need to know that there is little to choose between nigeria and ghana.

hey thare are slums every where even in america may be not canada. however the slums in the west are relatively better than the slums in africa ( even our most developed south africa).

its is your empty pride ( some nigerians) that blinds u to acknowledging good things let alone seeing good surrounded by bad as the case is in both nigeria and ghana.

i can go on and on but the bottom line is there is little to choose betwen ghana and nigeria
Kermitt
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #230 on: April 30, 2009, 03:41 AM »

Ghana is the shit. I love 9ja but there's something about Ghana, and I think it's the ease of life. It's not about the number of fancy buildings or construction projects. If it were, Nigeria would win every time. Don't get me wrong, Ghananians have problems just like every other africans and can be down right devious just like us. Its just that their society and governance works better.
tpiah
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #231 on: April 30, 2009, 03:46 AM »

Ghana, Angola, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda etc


Is there any place Nigerians dont consider better than Nigeria?
tpiah
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #232 on: April 30, 2009, 03:56 AM »

this is a very interesting assertion


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Nigeria was created by the British to 'fail', if it wasn't, why combine so many major different ethnic groups into one country.


pre 1914 or pre Berlin Conference

to the left of the British territory:  French/German holdings and allegiance

To the right: German/French holdings and allegiance.

North: French and francophone

South: atlantic ocean



what were they supposed to do? All the land in between had been captured or subdued by the British.

Partition the regions and give them over to the French and Germans to handle? Huh

and no need to start sobbing over the loss of indigenous sovereignty in tribal strongholds plz. Lets study the cold facts!
gentle (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #233 on: May 18, 2009, 12:37 AM »

See as u dey talk about ghana like say we never reach there before. Naija can't be like ghana because naija is better than ghana. D.N.N (Dis Na Naija)
Ifygurl
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #234 on: June 05, 2009, 11:35 PM »

All i know is.  I've been to both Ghana and Nigeria. I don't see that much of a difference especially when it comes to slums but what's new.  Abi, Some Nigerians think Mali is better than Nigeria.  some Nigerians think nigeria is a fourth world country. So not suprise.

@ poster, there isn't any different between Nigeria and Ghana, hell the person that posted the pics.  You know that's stupidity right?  I can easily start posting pictures from Virgin Island in Lagos and claim that's how all Nigeria looks like.  Hell the video in youtube about African you don't see in TV, most of the pics were from Lagos and Abuja.  Is that how the whole Lagos and Abuja looks like? 
Some people in this world.  anyway,  really don't understand the praise (i mean i hear them complaining about their country just like we do.  I visited, liked what i saw, thought it was beautiful but wasn't that different from Nigeria).  So i don't understand the praise.
Hell, Accra is their capital.  Abuja is ours.  abuja is better than Accra, i guess Ghanaian should start saying "why can't Ghana be like Nigeria".  It's studity, comparing how an entire country looks with a picture of one side in their main city.  Wow, Nigerians, wow. 
Well Nigeria can never be like Ghana cause we are not them, and they ain't us.
Ifygurl
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #235 on: June 05, 2009, 11:38 PM »

Quote from: tpiah on April 30, 2009, 03:46 AM
Ghana, Angola, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda etc


Is there any place Nigerians dont consider better than Nigeria?

Abi oooh,   Grin Grin Grin.  you missing some

I've heard Nigerians claim, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mali, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast is better than Nigeria.  Hell i bet you more African nation will be added soon.
yommyuk
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #236 on: June 06, 2009, 06:37 AM »

What of Kingston ghetto in JAMACIA Grin
immadosumn
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #237 on: July 18, 2009, 06:53 PM »

Sadly, Nigeria from its conception remains an anomaly. It was conceived as an afterthought, built solely for the economic reality of the day as it relates to the colonizing Brits and their tainted enterprise. Just a brief recap - Lord Lugard (Lord? why?) amalgamated the north and south protectorates in 1914, our fate was sealed Sad.

Think about it for a sec,  The Brits needed to overcome their bureaucratic bottlenecks of doing commerce between both independent protectorates, with the groundnuts and other grains from Sokoto having easy access to the ports in Lagos Colony being at the forefront of the decision to build the first rail line via Ogbomosho to the Lagos. Hence this humongous entity was created.

There's no way in hell you could have expected much from an infant country of mostly Africans that were recently introduced to a foreign type of governance ala western democracy in 1960, and teaming with a population running into scores of millions right out of the gate and yet saddled with centuries old ethnic strife and nepotism. Those devious Brits knew this fact and yet, gladly and callously, created Nigeria to fail.

Take the corruption, our dopey elite class and the virtual lack of the rule of law out of the equation and you are still left with an anomaly, sadly. Nigeria is a tainted child from birth and sadly, will have to be destroyed first before she can even have a remote chance at life as most of us that have been privileged to see the world outside Nigeria, have come to know.

I love Nigeria, will always do, but the first opportunity I had, I got rid of that tainted green passport and I thank God I never subjected my kids to being saddled with them either. Until we have the guts to take back the place, destroy it and rebuild it again, in small, functioning wholes, then I'm sorry, everything else is beside the point.

Sorry I digressed from the topic,  just couldn't resist.

In line with my same argument above, the Ghanaians were saddled with a much lighter burden from the start, hence their being able to get it together, quicker and more efficiently that we can ever aspire to. Their yoke is lighter and hence their chances of succeeding, much higher. I'm not at all surprised by their rapid growth and success. I wish them only the best. I also wish, we could take Nigeria back from the neocolonialist multinational firms doing business in Nigeria, alongside our own preppy-dopey elites and ruling class, break it down in small bits that are manageable according to our ability and get it working for us all. Just a wish.

My 2c.
sasuos (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #238 on: September 09, 2009, 11:58 PM »

Look ooooooooooooooooo, abi they have done it again by being the first african country to qualify for the world cup.
babyme (f)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #239 on: September 10, 2009, 05:05 AM »

yeah yeah watever wee cant be like ghanian becos were nigerians we dont BEE like anyone else, we BE us, get it, were original, yeah ghanians have constant power?, yeah them, we have generators if u cant buy hard luck, they speak "right" english , oh really well we will appreciate it if u dont try copying our broken english and pretending the whooooleee west african speak, if they do they copied, yeah n make ure own movies!!! better still dont make ure own movies, u kinda suck,  so @ poster WE CANT BE LIKE GHANA BECOS THEYRE BUSY TRYING TO BE LIKE US, SO WE SMART NIGERIAN KNOW SOONER OR L8R WE'LL BE THESAME JUST IT WONT BE US DOING THE COPYING B***H
nezerst (f)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #240 on: September 10, 2009, 05:00 PM »

@ POSTER
U R VERY SILLY
sasuos (m)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #241 on: September 11, 2009, 01:55 PM »

very silly.
babyme (f)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #242 on: September 11, 2009, 07:29 PM »

very very silly!! Grin
morpheus24
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #243 on: September 11, 2009, 07:47 PM »

@ poster

CAUSE IT CAN"T.

NOW WHAT!!
rubi (f)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #244 on: September 12, 2009, 08:26 PM »

I have not been to ghana before but I think ghana is not over populated like 9ja that is why it can be managed very well upon they have constant light, good road still they anticipate to be like nigerians.
yommyuk
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #245 on: September 13, 2009, 01:59 AM »

I have not been to ghana before but I think ghana is not over populated like 9ja that is why it can be managed very well as I they have constant light, good road still they anticipate to be like nigerians.
 
  Huh Huh Huh

As long as We still have the ITTs in Govt, 9ija will always be 9ija.
Basically, We are too good for our own good. If you know what I mean. Undecided
Busy_body (f)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #246 on: September 17, 2009, 11:06 PM »


Why do people think they have constant light in Ghana, yes it is not as erratic as the power supply in Nigeria, but there are times in Ghana too when they don't have light for weeks at a stretch Undecided


And as for the road users, chei, I thought drivers in Nigerians were maniacs Lips sealed Lips sealed Lips sealed
tundejayz
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #247 on: September 17, 2009, 11:21 PM »

dont talk about ghana,light is a veryslighest issue to sort out in naija here ,we know what to do,our leaders are not doing it ,one day some one will,nepa/phcn is a child plays in naija few billions will fix that problem,but for now they are busy packing the trillions into their account,God will touch just one of them and our nepa issue go get head ,solution ,  see your brother fashola fixing roads,forcin things to get head for naija,if he had the power he would have fixed light issue ,naija na the place ,even south africa sef get as he be,all my guys wey dey for south africa,don run back naija ,why, God help us. AMEN
Busy_body (f)
Re: Why Can't Nigeria Be Like Ghana?
« #248 on: September 17, 2009, 11:45 PM »

Quote from: tundejayz on September 17, 2009, 11:21 PM
dont talk about ghana,light is a veryslighest issue to sort out in naija here ,we know what to do,our leaders are not doing it ,one day some one will,nepa/phcn is a child plays in naija few billions will fix that problem,but for now they are busy packing the trillions into their account,God will touch just one of them and our nepa issue go get head ,solution ,  see your brother fashola fixing roads,forcin things to get head for naija,if he had the power he would have fixed light issue ,naija na the place ,even south africa sef get as he be,all my guys wey dey for south africa,don run back naija ,why, God help us. AMEN


Amen oh my Brother, God will see us through Sad Sad Sad


Quote from: immadosumn on July 18, 2009, 06:53 PM
Sadly, Nigeria from its conception remains an anomaly. It was conceived as an afterthought, built solely for the economic reality of the day as it relates to the colonizing Brits and their tainted enterprise. Just a brief recap - Lord Lugard (Lord? why?) amalgamated the north and south protectorates in 1914, our fate was sealed Sad.

Think about it for a sec,  The Brits needed to overcome their bureaucratic bottlenecks of doing commerce between both independent protectorates, with the groundnuts and other grains from Sokoto having easy access to the ports in Lagos Colony being at the forefront of the decision to build the first rail line via Ogbomosho to the Lagos. Hence this humongous entity was created.

There's no way in hell you could have expected much from an infant country of mostly Africans that were recently introduced to a foreign type of governance ala western democracy in 1960, and teaming with a population running into scores of millions right out of the gate and yet saddled with centuries old ethnic strife and nepotism. Those devious Brits knew this fact and yet, gladly and callously, created Nigeria to fail.

Take the corruption, our dopey elite class and the virtual lack of the rule of law out of the equation and you are still left with an anomaly, sadly. Nigeria is a tainted child from birth and sadly, will have to be destroyed first before she can even have a remote chance at life as most of us that have been privileged to see the world outside Nigeria, have come to know.

I love Nigeria, will always do, but the first opportunity I had, I got rid of that tainted green passport and I thank God I never subjected my kids to being saddled with them either. Until we have the guts to take back the place, destroy it and rebuild it again, in small, functioning wholes, then I'm sorry, everything else is beside the point.

Sorry I digressed from the topic,  just couldn't resist.

In line with my same argument above, the Ghanaians were saddled with a much lighter burden from the start, hence their being able to get it together, quicker and more efficiently that we can ever aspire to. Their yoke is lighter and hence their chances of succeeding, much higher. I'm not at all surprised by their rapid growth and success. I wish them only the best. I also wish, we could take Nigeria back from the neocolonialist multinational firms doing business in Nigeria, alongside our own preppy-dopey elites and ruling class, break it down in small bits that are manageable according to our ability and get it working for us all. Just a wish.

My 2c.



Hmmn, deep and thought-provoking Cool I only hope we find a solution to the many issues plaguing us before the WEST comes along with their AFRICOM shite to smash us up and break our resolves Cry Cry Cry
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