Ufeolorun: Rossikk,
I admire your genuine love for Nigeria but don't compare india to Nigeria.
India is on overdrive while nigeria is still being propelled by omolanke kind of device.
The fact that this outage became news is because it's largely seen as unusual and unacceptable for an emerging economic power.
They have serious issues you would normally see in developing countries but don't Ignore or underestimate the I in the BRICs,its there for a reason.

Ileke-IdI:
Ok in an haste to excuse GEJ's incompetence, someone forgot to quote these NLers who "said India is better than Nigeria".

I doubt any NLer is dull enough to make such statement.

Rossikk: Blackout in the country leads to 620 million people without power in a country where daily power cuts are already the norm. I thought some people here have been singing the praises of India while rubbishing Naija. The comments from Indians following this article below show the country is riddled with corruption and inefficiency. And scarily enough, they have nukes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/power-outages-hit-600-million-in-india.html

Rossikk:

But you have folks like you that regularly sing the praises of Ghana, saying she's better than Nigeria. I can use your same argument to destroy the 'Ghana is better than Nigeria' claim.

''Where is Ghana's Dangote Group?
Where is her Zenith Bank?
Where is her First Bank?
Where is her UBA?
Where is her Oando PLC?
Where is her Transcorp?
Where is her GLO?
Where is her INNOSON motors (vehicle manufacturers)?
Where is her Zinox (computer manufacturers)?
Where is her Defence Industries Corporation (DIC), West Africa's largest weapons manufacturer?''

I mean if we want to go down that road of ''this country has bigger companies than that, and therefore must be better'', then Nigeria is surely the second best country in Africa after SA!!!!

Anyone disagree?

SmoothCrim: When talking about economies I prefer to Use the IMF data since it is the newest and most updated.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/weodata/weoselgr.aspx


I prefer to look at the human development index
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Table1.pdf


And the Failed states Index

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/failed_states_index_2012_interactive



When one reads all along with the Global Peace Index it becomes apparent that India is in better shape BUT, Nigeria has good potential and if it gets its act together WATCH OUT!!!

In the end both are developing countries and have a lot of challenges.

Rossikk:

Dude abeg go siddon. ''Ahead in most spheres'' when India is literally starving? I mean, come on. If your people are starving/eating from dustbins you cannot come out and beat your chest and say you're better than other countries whose people are better fed. Food security is No 1. Tell me, will those hundreds of millions of starving Indians eat software? Will they eat nuclear weapons? Will they eat steel produced by Tata Industries? Tata has a personal fortune worth $22 billion. Yippeee! How much of that money has the average Indian smelt? People are starving and you're here talking nonsense on a full belly. Believe me if you go near any of those malnourished Indians and mentioned Tata and Infosys, they will wring your neck!

401kk: They face the same problems Nigerians face:
Multi ethnicity, multi religious, huge population, horizontal corruption

onandon: We have only had a total of 4 hours power supply in my hood since Saturday. I can't believe this crap of a topic, OP is definitely part of the 40 laptop squad. How can someone in his/her right mind come out and justify failure by comparing it with another persons shortcoming ? Na different parole person dey see for this NL everytime. Hey everyone, I bed wet every night but my brother bed wetted twice yesterday once during siesta and when we were having our night rest therefore I am better than my brother and I'm proud to be a bed wetter because my brother bed wetted yesterday too.. Yipeee ! By the way we are 18 year olds.

Rossikk: Blackout in the country leads to 620 million people without power in a country where daily power cuts are already the norm. I thought some people here have been singing the praises of India while rubbishing Naija. The comments from Indians following this article below show the country is riddled with corruption and inefficiency. And scarily enough, they have nukes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/power-outages-hit-600-million-in-india.html

Katsumoto: OP,

Highlighting the power problems of India doesn't make India worse off than Nigeria.

India leads Nigeria in most facets of life. Having said that, it doesn't mean that India is not beset with problems such as graft, bad infrastructure, etc.

India has had better growth rates than Nigeria in the last few decades
India leads the world in frugal innovation in many fields such as energy, telecommunications, medicine, medical diagnostics, etc
India has produced entrepreneurs who are not dependent on government contracts or government created monopolies

Nigeria can not even challenge India educationally.

Rossikk:

You must be living on a different planet.

http://www.lagosrail.com/home/index.php

Insofar as what is being built and planned for Lagos is sufficient to cater to the Lagos population, and open to modification, you've no leg to stand on. In any case this stuff of comparing rail lines etc is the same error of equating growth with development. AGAIN, OF WHAT USE IS DELHI'S RAIL WHEN INDIA LEADS THE WORLD IN MALNUTRITION??

You can post images of all sorts of developments in India, it still doesn't answer that basic question.

Rossikk:

But you have folks like you that regularly sing the praises of Ghana, saying she's better than Nigeria. I can use your same argument to destroy the 'Ghana is better than Nigeria' claim.

''Where is Ghana's Dangote Group?
Where is her Zenith Bank?
Where is her First Bank?
Where is her UBA?
Where is her Oando PLC?
Where is her Transcorp?
Where is her GLO?
Where is her INNOSON motors (vehicle manufacturers)?
Where is her Zinox (computer manufacturers)?
Where is her Defence Industries Corporation (DIC), West Africa's largest weapons manufacturer?''

I mean if we want to go down that road of ''this country has bigger companies than that, and therefore must be better'', then Nigeria is surely the second best country in Africa after SA!!!!

Anyone disagree?