TonyeBarcanista:

The message is we should fix our problems and stop this chestbeating attitude on social media when as a country we are suffering and living below par kind of lifestyle.

I am a Nigerian, no doubt about it. We have serious problem, we must be our own biggest critics till we fix our problems instead of eFighting fellow Africans that are faring better.

TonyeBarcanista:

Which population? is Nigeria the most populated in the world? Are we up to Indonesia in population? Are we up to Brazil? Aren't these countries MILES ahead of us despite we showing great signs in the 60s more than them?

USA is far populated than UK and Russia but are those countries better than USA?

Germany is more populated than Spain or Portugal, but are they better than Germany?

Truth is Nigeria is lagging behind and in the least ebb in the Committee of nations. We have the potential to be great but we are not great yet.

TonyeBarcanista:
I am saddened by the continuous act of some of my compatriots to always engage in social media fight with fellow Africans, most notably our brothers and sisters from Ghana and Kenya.

It is even unfortunate that these countries Nigeria youths love to abuse on social media are doing better than our potentially great country in virtually all sphere despite the fact that we(as a country) have more revenues, potentials, and opportunities. If Nigerians are not aware of the superiority(in terms of living) of other Africans over us, I will have to educate them using Kenya as a case study.

While Nigerians have always pride in the self titled "African Giant" rhetoric, facts on ground shows otherwise. Though we generate more revenue than Kenya, which is 70% due to the gift of nature under our soil(Petrodollars), Nigerians still lag behind greatly in basic things when compared to the East African giant.

According to 2015 data from World Health Organisation, Nigeria's male and female life expectancy are 52years and 56 years respectively, meaning an average Nigerian is expected to die before he/she turns 60. Meanwhile, the expectancy for Kenyan male and female are 61 and 66 years respectively. Similarly, while Nigeria has the 10th highest infant mortality rate worldwide with average 72 deaths per 1,000 birth, Kenya's infant mortality rate is rated 52nd in the world with average 32 deaths per 1,000 births. This means it is safer to give birth in Kenya than in Nigeria, and an average Kenyan living in Kenya is expected to live longer than an average Nigerian living in Nigeria.

Though Nigeria has more tourism potential than Kenya, but Kenya is one of the choice destination for vacation in West Africa. While Nigeria managed to rake in $601 million as Tourism receipt(Revenue) in 2014, Kenya raked in $1.833 billion in the same year. Nigeria can't even boast of a National carrier meanwhile Kenya Airways, the National Carrier of Kenya boasts of 45 Aircrafts in their fleet with 4,000 workforce strength. In addition, Kenya Airways is reputed to be one of the best in Africa.

In Africa, Kenya is the leader of Mobile money. Nigeria is still still battling to get it right in the ICT sector with poor infrastructure, lack of power, lack of political will, and fantastically corruption.

At present Nigeria is experiencing recession in her economy, one would expect Nigerians to shun frivolties and seek for ways to turn the recession to prosperity instead of wasting productive hours fighting our African brethren over irrelevances. Why would one who is rationing his/her phone battery life due to epileptic power supply still spend the little battery life s/he got through his/her generator to abuse someone in Nairobi who is neither rationing his/her phone battery life nor is depending on generating set for power? There is no trophy or reward for social media fight, Nigerians should stop sending the wrong image to the world that our greatness lies in social media wars.


Nigeria is a great country with potentials, filled with great prospects, but we can never be great if we don't channel our time and resources to fix our country.

A word should be enough for the wise... May God Bless Us All, and Bless Nigeria

RESOURCES: http://world.bymap.org/InfantMortality.html
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD
http://www.who.int/countries/nga/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/ken/en/

Puvour:
Please stop talking as though everything just suddenly got to how it is. Growth takes time. And America didn't suddenly appear in their present timeline. Do I need to start explaining to you why population matters in things like this and how it will take time for the effect of population to be masked by the prosperity of a nation, just as is the case of America today? Stop being too emotional about this and reason objectively.

FTBOY:
yes, you made your point, quite right....but resorted to comparing kenya against nigeria. that's not patriotic. even though i hate APC government as much as i hated PDP, i'd never involve myself in mudslinging the nigerian state in public..

TonyeBarcanista:
That figure is way underrated. Nigerians need to fix ourselves to truly stand as African giant.

TonyeBarcanista:

Some of you talk like you are special breed of people. If only you know that the social media is supposed to be used as a tool to promote national advancement, project a country's good image, and earn respect among your peers. It is gross abuse to turn it into arena of internal and external brawl. If every adult spend their time on Brawl I am sure nobody will come up with internet not to talk of social media.

It is even a shame that the people we bad mouth are faring better than us. Seriously, we are supposed to be slugging it out with South Sudan- But you will hardly see them constituting nuisance on SM like we do.

TonyeBarcanista:
What is Buhari or PDP here? we should be our biggest critics

TonyeBarcanista:
If you look at Nigeria in the 60s-70s, we were far ahead of Kenya and most African countries. We had the potential to GROW to the status of second world country (if not first) and we had additional advantage of oil wealth. But all through the years, we sink deeper than we were. We have even left third world status technically.

Our infrastructures went on decay, have Petroleum but we can't refine. Our tourism sector DIED. We can't even provide good road and electricity. Instead of consolidating our system of leadership we have sank deeper.

In 2016 when the world is advancing we are struggling for devolution of power and federalism (Pls don't tell me the north).

Nigeria is in a deep mess, we are rubbing shoulder with South Sudan at present, we have potentials but can only get out of our mess if we admit that we are messed up and seek to fix it. Other Africans are beginning to see us as chest beating King Kong. We can't continue this path.

TonyeBarcanista:

If you look at Nigeria in the 60s-70s, we were far ahead of Kenya and most African countries. We had the potential to GROW to the status of second world country (if not first) and we had additional advantage of oil wealth. But all through the years, we sink deeper than we were. We have even left third world status technically.

Our infrastructures went on decay, have Petroleum but we can't refine. Our tourism sector DIED. We can't even provide good road and electricity. Instead of consolidating our system of leadership we have sank deeper.

In 2016 when the world is advancing we are struggling for devolution of power and federalism (Pls don't tell me the north).

Nigeria is in a deep mess, we are rubbing shoulder with South Sudan at present, we have potentials but can only get out of our mess if we admit that we are messed up and seek to fix it. Other Africans are beginning to see us as chest beating King Kong. We can't continue this path.

lezznjr:



And here goes another unpatriotic fool who would sell his country at any price with misleading information just to discredit his political adversaries!!!

Tonyebacarnista, please stick to domestic politics, you're an exhibit A of ignorance when you venture into geopolitics.

[b]Kenya isn't even amongst Africa's top 10 countries. If you want to slight APC, fine. Do it domestically. Comparing Nigeria to Kenya means you're an ignoramus, a compound simpleton and a political turncoat. You're a disgrace in a single word.


Now to facts: Only 42% of Kenyans are connected to the national grid as against 50% in Nigeria despite our exploding population. So Kenyans are having huge power issues when not even faced with vandalism of pipelines carrying gas to plants.

Kenya rely on tourism to feed, dummy. How dey you compare tourism between Nigeria and Kenya? Are you a daft? It is like comparing holiday resorts between the Mediterranean countries and America, or between tourism between Egypt and Canada.

Boy, Kenya is so undeveloped their natural wood animals roam free, British tourists had to set up game reserves and tame those animals and in the process provide food for 45 million starving Kenya's whose social graces and living conditions were no better bonobo-chimpanzees. And get your facts right, Kenya is in East Africa not West.

Life expectancy? Boy, What's that got to do with geopolitics. Little counties always have higher life experiences, E.g Luxembourg, Switzerland, Finland and two other silly Asian countries, I can't even bring their names to the fore, but they aren't Japan or South Korea or China and those other small countries are higher life expectancies than US , Germany, UK, France. You're a glorified daft.
The toks2008 of political section.

Mr. Unpatriotic daft, have you compared Nigeria's PPP and GDP to Kenya's? Have you compared our per capatia incomee to Kenya's? Olodo.


Over half of Kenya is of virgin vegetation as it was from creation. Even Nairobi is half forest with unproductivity and primal existence.

Olodo, what is the size of Kenya's middle class in percentage compare to Nigeria's?


A fool like you is talking mobile money when NIGERIA is talking space technology, being the only 2 or 3 African countries to launch sattelite into the orbit.

Nigeria is ranked no3 in Africa in technology just behind Egypt and south Africa and i couldn't find Kenya in that list.

As we speak Nigeria's banks and firms are dominating Western and Eastern Africa and i can't seem to remember any Kenyan firm scattered across Africa .


We are undergoing economic recession at the moment as many other counties who depend on single commodity product for revenue generation, but don't ever compare NIGERIA with Kenya, you ignorant fool.

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lezznjr:



And here goes another unpatriotic fool who would sell his country at any price with misleading information just to discredit his political adversaries!!!

Tonyebacarnista, please stick to domestic politics, you're an exhibit A of ignorance when you venture into geopolitics.

[b]Kenya isn't even amongst Africa's top 10 countries. If you want to slight APC, fine. Do it domestically. Comparing Nigeria to Kenya means you're an ignoramus, a compound simpleton and a political turncoat. You're a disgrace in a single word.


Now to facts: Only 42% of Kenyans are connected to the national grid as against 50% in Nigeria despite our exploding population. So Kenyans are having huge power issues when not even faced with vandalism of pipelines carrying gas to plants.

Kenya rely on tourism to feed, dummy. How dey you compare tourism between Nigeria and Kenya? Are you a daft? It is like comparing holiday resorts between the Mediterranean countries and America, or between tourism between Egypt and Canada.

Boy, Kenya is so undeveloped their natural wood animals roam free, British tourists had to set up game reserves and tame those animals and in the process provide food for 45 million starving Kenya's whose social graces and living conditions were no better bonobo-chimpanzees. And get your facts right, Kenya is in East Africa not West.

Life expectancy? Boy, What's that got to do with geopolitics. Little counties always have higher life experiences, E.g Luxembourg, Switzerland, Finland and two other silly Asian countries, I can't even bring their names to the fore, but they aren't Japan or South Korea or China and those other small countries are higher life expectancies than US , Germany, UK, France. You're a glorified daft.
The toks2008 of political section.

Mr. Unpatriotic daft, have you compared Nigeria's PPP and GDP to Kenya's? Have you compared our per capatia incomee to Kenya's? Olodo.


Over half of Kenya is of virgin vegetation as it was from creation. Even Nairobi is half forest with unproductivity and primal existence.

Olodo, what is the size of Kenya's middle class in percentage compare to Nigeria's?


A fool like you is talking mobile money when NIGERIA is talking space technology, being the only 2 or 3 African countries to launch sattelite into the orbit.

Nigeria is ranked no3 in Africa in technology just behind Egypt and south Africa and i couldn't find Kenya in that list.

As we speak Nigeria's banks and firms are dominating Western and Eastern Africa and i can't seem to remember any Kenyan firm scattered across Africa .


We are undergoing economic recession at the moment as many other counties who depend on single commodity product for revenue generation, but don't ever compare NIGERIA with Kenya, you ignorant fool.

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Beremx:
Nigeria is a big for nothing country. A very useless country where nothing works.

God punish our leaders!!

Nnannapat:
Preach it Bro. I think this issue of unmerited comparisons starts with the kind of environment and training you received as a child, for so long Nigerian official statistics tend to suppress the facts on the ground, then dish out bloated lies to massage the egos of the so called people that matters in Nigeria, and majority of our youths tends to believe that. Travelling is really part of education, the very first day I touched down in Nairobi, I secretly told my self " Bros we got jobs to do in Nigeria". Our youths needs to travel more often within and outside Nigeria, it will bring out the greatness in all us.
Nigeria is blessed
Nigeria will be great
Nigeria will be the pride of Africa
We will get there if the Will is there, we have what it takes.

Beremx:
I am wailing For a better democracy And government. I campaigned For Buhari and have The right To hold him accountable And criticize him.

ConqueredWest:

But you hate Biafra passionately.
Why the sudden dislike for Nigeria.?
Are you among those private sector staff whose salaries were cut.

ManMountain:
Op, shut up, so Nigerians should watch on as Ibos and Kenyans take to Twitter to insult my fatherland?
You are high on early morning urine

ManMountain:
Op, shut up, so Nigerians should watch on as Ibos and Kenyans take to Twitter to insult my fatherland?
You are high on early morning urine

lezznjr:



And here goes another unpatriotic fool who would sell his country at any price with misleading information just to discredit his political adversaries!!!

Tonyebacarnista, please stick to domestic politics, you're an exhibit A of ignorance when you venture into geopolitics.

[b]Kenya isn't even amongst Africa's top 10 countries. If you want to slight APC, fine. Do it domestically. Comparing Nigeria to Kenya means you're an ignoramus, a compound simpleton and a political turncoat. You're a disgrace in a single word.


Now to facts: Only 42% of Kenyans are connected to the national grid as against 50% in Nigeria despite our exploding population. So Kenyans are having huge power issues when not even faced with vandalism of pipelines carrying gas to plants.

Kenya rely on tourism to feed, dummy. How dare you compare tourism between Nigeria and Kenya? Are you a daft? It is like comparing holiday resorts between the Mediterranean countries and America, or between tourism between Egypt and Canada.

Boy, Kenya is so undeveloped their natural wild animals roam free, British tourists had to set up game reserves and tame those animals and in the process provide food for 45 million starving Kenyans whose social graces and living conditions were no better than bonobo-chimpanzees. And get your facts right, Kenya is in East Africa not West.

Life expectancy? Boy, What's that got to do with geopolitics. Little counties always have higher life experiences, E.g Luxembourg, Switzerland, Finland and two other silly Asian countries, I can't even bring their names to the fore, but they aren't Japan or South Korea or China and those other small countries are higher life expectancies than US , Germany, UK, France. You're a glorified daft.
The toks2008 of political section.

Mr. Unpatriotic daft, have you compared Nigeria's PPP and GDP to Kenya's? Have you compared our per capita incomee to Kenya's? Olodo.


Over half of Kenya is of virgin vegetation as it was from creation. Even Nairobi is half forest with unproductivity and primal existence.

Olodo, what is the size of Kenya's middle class in percentage compare to Nigeria's?


A fool like you is talking mobile money when NIGERIA is talking space technology, being the only 2 or 3 African countries to launch sattelite into the orbit.

Nigeria is ranked no3 in Africa in technology just behind Egypt and south Africa and i couldn't find Kenya in that list.

As we speak Nigeria's banks and firms are dominating Western and Eastern Africa and i can't seem to remember any Kenyan firm scattered across Africa .


We are undergoing economic recession at the moment as many other counties who depend on single commodity product for revenue generation, but don't ever compare NIGERIA with Kenya, you ignorant fool.

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TonyeBarcanista:
What is Buhari or PDP here? we should be our biggest critics

TonyeBarcanista:

Some Nigerians are embarrassing the country. They will sit down in their houses to claim Nigeria is African Powerhouse. They will curse and argue but they are suffering.

I wish we can be allowed to experience other countries for 3 months

Toks2008:


Why bring me into this?

Young man let me advice you..it is a sign of mental shallowness to curse and abuse on an interactive forum. Infact I ignore people who act as you do cos they are a threat to themselves as the act wricks lack of mental cohesion and good psychological well being.

When you read an opinion of another just learn to calm down and tender yours. Being educated goes beyond the ability to write grammar but it also involves the intellectual prowess to hold up arguments without vulgarity.

Donald trump may never get close to the white house due to this appalling nature you just displayed ....cursing while you should be discussing issues intelligently is a low life atitude.

Please adjust and don't bother cursing me cos you will only be wasting your time..I am too intellectual matured to troll.

Have a great day

TonyeBarcanista:


It is even a shame that you are using GDP(Gross Domestic Product) when 75% of our GDP contribution can be attributed to oil under the soil. Even at that we lack Infrastructure, Highly indebted, poor health system, foreign and local investors are running away, poor security, and Very HIGH INFLATION of 17%. Nigeria don't even have National Carrier and import everything including TOOTHPICK. We can't boast of power nor feed our people.

Meanwhile, Kenyans are producers that rakes money through leadership, has good infrastructure (relative), nice money spinning tourism etc

MutantMetahuman:
do you know that Lagos economy is bigger than 3 west African country combined..

Ghana, Cameroon and Togo.


These mor0ns never appreciate what they have because awusa is ruling them.

chiefobdk:


you must not wail.

we reject u

u must remain a zombie

ThuGnificenX:
Thus said tonye... I just lost all my respect for this guy... Kenya? Better than Nigeria? While u look at the statistics especially on child mortality rate, do u know the population of Nigeria compared to Kenya? Are u mad?

MutantMetahuman:
do you know that Lagos economy is bigger than 3 west African country combined..

Ghana, Cameroon and Togo.


These mor0ns never appreciate what they have because awusa is ruling them.

Toks2008:


Why bring me into this?

Young man let me advice you..it is a sign of mental shallowness to curse and abuse on an interactive forum. Infact I ignore people who act as you do cos they are a threat to themselves as the act wricks lack of mental cohesion and good psychological well being.

When you read an opinion of another just learn to calm down and tender yours. Being educated goes beyond the ability to write grammar but it also involves the intellectual prowess to hold up arguments without vulgarity.

Donald trump may never get close to the white house due to this appalling nature you just displayed ....cursing while you should be discussing issues intelligently is a low life atitude.

Please adjust and don't bother cursing me cos you will only be wasting your time..I am too intellectual matured to troll.

Have a great day